The article, Racial disparity in African American... examines the data in Illinois concerning racial disparities. The purpose of the article is to introduce a new method for determining disparities. The author uses a model from the education field. Most of the data and studies using the method are garnered from the education field as this method has not be used often in the field of social work. This tool will be used to acknowledge and recognize disparities of children in the child welfare system in Illinois. Rolock suggests that by using a weighted risk ratio and decision enumeration this will help. She first begins by establishing the differences between two types of enumeration: population and decision. Population focuses on the risk of
