Full Description
Worldwide, social workers have many functions and roles to play in the areas of crime and criminal justice, and they work with service users at both sides of criminal justice: crime perpetrators, crime victims and, very often, vulnerable people who are part of the two groups.
This handbook provides both a critical exploration of the roots and theoretical foundations of Criminal Justice Social Work as well as cutting-edge research and practice in the field, from a global and inclusive viewpoint.
Divided into six parts:
• Theoretical Approaches and Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice Social Work
• Social Work in the Prison System
• Children, Youth and Criminal Justice Social Work
• Social Work, Health and Justice
• Social Exclusion and Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System
• Police Social Work, Social Work in Courts and Criminal Justice Social Work with Communities,
it moves away from purely legalistic approaches and regulation constraints which often leave social workers and researchers in this field feeling unheard and powerless in face of oppressive procedures and regulations in opposition to service users' human rights and social justice-oriented change, in line with the profession's global codes of ethics.
The diverse and international knowledge generated by the handbook will become a key global resource for teaching and learning about the foundations and diverse understandings, practices and regulations regarding social work in the areas of crime and criminal justice, and for enhancing social work's contributions and influence on these.
Contents
0.Introduction. Part I - Theoretical Approaches and Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice Social Work. 1.Paradoxes of Professionalization: Reflections on Building Abolitionist Social Work Praxis in the Contradictions. 2.Challenging the Myth of a Permanent Criminal Legal Institution in Social Work Education in the United States. 3.A Rights-based approach to criminal justice in Flanders. 4.A Duo-Ethnographic Exploration of Criminal In/Justice, Social Work and Activism. 5.Disability Studies, Social Work and Criminal Justice: Conceptualising a dis/ableist criminology. 6.A Divided/Divisive Path: Criminal Justice Social Work Education across the Four Nations of the UK. 7.Softening the Hearts of People Who Come into Conflict with the Law: Criminal Justice Social Work in Hong Kong. 8.Investigating the role of social workers in Zimbabwe in promoting criminal justice through human rights activism and advocacy. 9.Assisted Desistance and Social Work. 10.Green Activism and Social Networks of Care, Repair and Action: A Criminological Perspective. Part II - Social Work in the Prison System. 11.Prison social work: Challenges and proposals from a Global North-South dialogue. 12.Centralised and embedded in-house social work in Swiss prisons: Challenges and opportunities for the resulting roles. 13.Social Intervention in Semi-Open Prisons in Spain. 14.Social work behind bars in Latin America: A website-based, initial exploration. 15.The Extended Effects of Incarceration in Latin America: The Central Role of Women. 16.Together, a Chance: Piloting family social workers in two women's prisons in England, UK. 17.Looking out as well as in: Justice Social Workers, Prison Yoga Teachers and resisting 'secondhand carcerality' in UK prisons. 18.Behind Bars: Lived Experiences of Youth Prisoners and Social Work Intervention in Indian Prisons. Part III - Children, Youth and Criminal Justice Social Work. 19.The Penal System for Young Offenders in Germany: (Un-)ambiguous tasks of social work. Professional work in the reflection of contradictions and (un-)certainties. 20.Hidden in plain sight: Differential approaches to 'best interests' protection of minors in the justice systems in Spain and Ireland. 21.Determinants and methods of resocialization of juvenile offenders - A Polish perspective. 22.Social Work and Chilean Drug Treatment Courts for Juvenile Offenders. 23.Trauma Informed Youth Offending Practice: Ethical Considerations. 24.Lived experience informed criminal justice social work in England: A case of Generative Justice? 25.Surviving violence: Analysing youth violence and the role of social workers in facilitating restorative justice services in post-apartheid South Africa. 26.Critical Social Work and Youth Justice: Reimagining Practice Through Reflexivity, Collaboration, and Anti-Oppressive Frameworks. 27.Lived experience and meaning making. Stories of courage over childhood adversity. Part IV - Social Work, Health and Justice. 28.Social work's role in promoting continuity of care in Health and Justice. 29.Behind the closed doors - The journey to recovery: Insights into 'inpatient' forensic social work and the role of the forensic social worker. 30.Addiction in the Family: A Critical Reflection of Family Recovery and Lessons Learned for Forensic Social Work. 31.Criminal Justice Social Work in Ghanaian Hospitals: A Qualitative examination of the hospital social work role in promoting criminal justice in Ghanaian Hospitals. 32.Promoting community-based social work for justice-involved people with mental illness in Japan. 33.Brain injury rehabilitation behind closed doors: Reflections from delivering neurorehabilitation in prisons in the United Kingdom. 34.The Social and Health Care Needs of Older Prisoners in England and Wales. Part V - Social Exclusion and Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System. 35.Social work as family policing. 36.Children in Care, Care Leavers, and Criminological Outcomes: Current Evidence and Future Research Directions Relating to Socioeconomic Factors in the UK. 37.When Culture and Safeguarding Collide: Identifying and Preventing Child Exploitation in Roma Communities. 38.Homelessness in context: A South African perspective of victimisation and policy intervention. 39.Neurodiversity in the Youth Justice System in England and Wales: An Evolving Landscape. 40.The Effectiveness of an Emotional Regulation Model for Black Men in Batterer Intervention Programs in the United States. 41.From Parole Officer to Social Work Professor in Canada: Criminal justice social work education and practice with Deaf offenders. 42.Utilising Restorative Justice to Break the Cycle of Harm for Children in Conflict with the Law: South African Perspectives. Part VI - Police Social Work, Social Work in Courts and Criminal Justice Social Work with Communities. 43.Bringing a human rights-based approach to the supervision of court orders. 44.Diversion from Prosecution in Scotland: Promises and pitfalls. 45.Police Social Work in India. 46.Forensic Social Work in the Courts of Justice in Spain. 47.Mainstreaming Social Work Intervention as an Element of Fair Trial. 48.Justice Social Work in Scotland: Research, Education and Practice in a Devolved Jurisdiction. 49.Accompanying victims in trials for human rights violations in Argentina and Chile: Social work practices as part of an interdisciplinary approach. 50.Social work in special jurisdictions (JEP and community justice) in Colombia, from a human rights approach. 51.Creating Community and Practising Abolition: A Case Study of the Development of Seeds of Affinity, a grassroots organisation supporting currently and formerly incarcerated women in South Australia.
