To be progressive is to believe in the possibility of a better, fairer, and more compassionate world. It is to believe that we can create a society in which people, working cooperatively, can thrive and make the most of our lives. Progressivism is also about the thriving of the organic and non-organic world around us. Whether we are referring to green politics, feminism, or socialism, the focus is on making things better for us all : on sharing out what we have, and working together, so that wellbeing and fulfilment are not just in the hands of a privileged
177 FIVE Progressive diversion The previous chapter examined the potential of a Children First, Offenders Second (CFOS) approach to working with children subject to statutory orders in the youth justice system (YJS). In this context, putting children first in the YJS means abandoning the reductionist and disengaging management of risk and practice performance perpetuated by the Scaled Approach assessment and intervention framework and evidenced (to a lesser degree) by the revised AssetPlus framework; replacing this approach with a participation-led model
be like. And indeed, as introduced in Chapter 1 , progressives have been accused of spending much more time focusing on what they see as wrong as opposed to articulating what ‘right’ would look like. Socialism, writes Bregman, has become little more than a force for resisting and reigning in the opposition: ‘Anti-privitazation, anti-establishment, anti-austerity. Given everything they’re against, one is left to wonder, what are underdog socialists actually for ?’ 1 So what kind of society would need to exist for the full development and thriving of each
3 ONE Towards a new progressive policy agenda Chris Miller and Lionel Orchard Introduction Australian politics and public policy are at an impasse and face many challenges given economic, political and social turbulence in both the domestic and global spheres. The overwhelming defeat of the Rudd Labor Government in the 2013 federal election and the decisive election of a Liberal–National Party Coalition Government led by Tony Abbott as Australia’s 28th Prime Minister make the likelihood of progressive public policy a more distant prospect. Yet Labor
those of like mind, namely ‘progressive opinion’. This chapter builds on the preceding two as we further examine Titmuss’s engagement with progressive opinion in particular. As part of this, we also examine his critique of what he saw as contemporary society’s moral shortcomings, not least the obsession with economic matters at the expense of what was, or could be, truly valuable in human affairs. For Titmuss, this complemented his concerns over population, as well as informing his more overtly political activities. Getting the message out One sign of Titmuss
221 ar tic le 1 © The Policy Press • 2010 • ISSN 1759-8273 Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 18 • no 3 • 2010 • 221-8 • 10.1332/175982710X530516 Progressive social justice and responding to the crisis1 A.B. Atkinson We may not be able to agree about where we would like to end up after the economic crisis, but we can surely agree on some elements of a socially just response to the recession. Applying the principle of ‘progressive social justice’, along the lines indicated by Amartya Sen (2009) in The idea of justice, the article proposes two
219 SIX Progressive prevention-promotion The previous chapter set out the principles, practices and progression of the use of diversion within the youth justice arena. We identified ambiguities surrounding the preferred objectives of diversion (for example avoiding contact with the formal youth justice system (YJS), preventing offending, restorative justice, meeting individual needs by facilitating access to youth justice and external services) and highlighted an insidious movement away from the principle of minimum necessary intervention with children
375 Epilogue: progressive ways ahead Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane How can our society’s relationship with its data be improved? Our authors offer many pointers to the way ahead. We hope this book will make you better informed, but also help you develop types of action appropriate to your situation as you see it, as an active citizen. One idea that has guided our activity, and has been a theme of this and the previous two books, Demystifying Social Statistics and Statistics in Society, is that data are a ‘social product’. This means that the
71 5 Social reform in the US: lessons from the Progressive Era Francisco Branco Social casework and social reform As argued in previous work (Branco, 2016), social reform was, to paraphrase Richmond (1922: 223), one of the forms of social work present in the thoughts of the most prominent and seminal pioneers of social work in the Progressive Era.1 Whereas the conceptualisation of and engagement in social reform of Jane Addams is relativity well known and recognised (compare, among others, Muncy, 1991; Lengermann & Niebrugge, 1998, 2007; Lengermann
307 23 The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson Introduction The Radical Statistics Group is a longstanding independent network where members and interested citizens critically evaluate statistics and research, and use them to promote democratic causes. Its 200- plus members include not only statisticians, but also research workers and campaigners on a variety of issues, mainly in the UK. It focuses on statistics relating to public policy making, health, education and general welfare
