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Our Introductory Guide to Forensic Social Work (Criminal Justice) describes the roles and responsibilities within forensic social work and explains the challenges and rewards of the field. It also provides advice to social work students who are interested in becoming forensic social workers....
They play a role throughout the criminal justice system and sometimes work as therapists, a profession that ordinarily requires clinical training and a state license. Social workers often have government jobs, but they also frequently work in the private sector and may even be business owners ...
The results of the study byRowaert et al. (2016)accord well with literature in other criminal justice populations, showing that there is a dearth of research on family experiences in general and strengths/protective factors in particular (Yoder & Ruch, 2015). In their study on involving famil...
With the continuing worldwide increases in issues involving income inequality, social injustice, gender inequality, substance abuse, child support and child custody, racism, gender discrimination, geriatric care, incarceration and the criminal justice system, military veterans, and many other social issues...
Criminal Justice Reform: Issues related to police brutality, mass incarceration, and inequities in the justice system are under increased scrutiny. Corporate Accountability: Corporations face pressure to address environmental degradation, labor exploitation, and their roles in societal inequality. ...
s the messages they send. Focusing so much on a woman’s color and other physical attributes implies that her appearance is the only thing that matters. This implication doesn’t do either of these genders justice. Women are much more than their appearance and men are more than capable of ...
In addition, those very criminalized populations have not been examined as credible witnesses and informants as to how recent criminal justice system transformations, such as mass incarceration and zero-tolerance policing and punishing of youth as adults, combined with the massive loss of viable jobs...
find that being offered youthful offender status, a status that removes the public stigma of a criminal record, reduces recidivism, regardless of the incarceration experience. Our study is situated in theories of deterrence, social learning, and labeling, and we apply our findings to greater ...