Street Level Bureaucracy, Casework, and Justice.
Most contemporary justice theories focus on the basic structure of society but pay relatively little attention to the implementation of laws and policies at the street-level. As agents of the basic structure, social caseworkers and street-level bureaucrats are, however, potentially in a unique posit...
| Published in: | Social Theory & Practice Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 485 - 506 |
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Florida State University
Jul2022
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