1st Edition

Human Behavior in the Environment A Justice for Vulnerable Populations Approach

By James Angelo Forte Copyright 2026
464 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

464 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

464 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Social workers prioritize understanding and advocating for unjustly at-risk vulnerable populations. Honoring this moral imperative requires critical empathy, imagination, knowledge, theorizing, and action. This textbook provides a comprehensive, practical, and normative framework for assessing a population with a problem in a place, for using standards of justice to appraise "what is", "what... Read more

1.Profiling Injustice: The Moral Imperative and Method.  2.Critical and Pragmatic Problem Solving.  3.Positionality in Rigged Hierarchies.  4.Recognition Injustice.  5.Resource Injustice.  6.Representation Injustice.  7.Rights Violations.  8.Environmental Injustice.  9.Privilege and Penalty. 10.Vulnerability and Resiliency.  11.Plausible Explanations.

Biography

James Angelo Forte is a Professor at the School of Social Work, Salisbury University, a social worker, and a researcher/theorist with interests in critical symbolic interactionism, justice/injustice, vulnerable populations, and the legacy of Jane Addams.

"By equipping readers with tools to critically appraise injustice and plan transformative interventions, Forte strengthens the profession’s commitment to ethical responsibility and social change. Overall, this book stands as an essential resource for students, educators, and practitioners seeking to ground their understanding of human behavior in a robust, multidimensional framework of justice."

Rizqy Aisyah Leonia, Lisnani, Budi Rachman & Muhammad Naufal Fairuzillah (10 Mar 2026): Human behavior in the environment: a justice for vulnerable populations approach, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, DOI: 10.1080/10911359.2026.2644369