1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Justice Social Work

622 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

622 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

 

Part I – Theoretical Approaches and Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice Social Work

 

Chapter One – Paradoxes of Professionalization: Reflections on Building Abolitionist Social Work Praxis in the Contradictions

Josh Lown and Cameron W. Rasmussen

 

Chapter Two – Challenging the Myth of a Permanent Criminal Legal Institution in Social Work Education in the United States

Anna K. Wood and Kat Layton

 

Chapter Three – A Rights-based approach to criminal justice in Flanders

Liesbeth Naessens

 

Chapter Four – A Duo-Ethnographic Exploration of Criminal In/Justice, Social Work and Activism

Suzette Jackson and John Darroch

 

Chapter Five – Disability Studies, Social Work and Criminal Justice: Conceptualising a dis/ableist criminology

Stephen J Macdonald and Donna Peacock

 

Chapter Six – A Divided/Divisive Path: Criminal Justice Social Work Education across the Four Nations of the UK

Caroline Bald

 

Chapter Seven – Softening the Hearts of People Who Come into Conflict with the Law: Criminal Justice Social Work in Hong Kong

Wing Hong Chui, Aaron H. L. Wong and Paul Vinod Khiatani

 

Chapter Eight – Investigating the role of social workers in Zimbabwe in promoting criminal justice through human rights activism and advocacy

Francis Maushe, Benevolence Nyamugada and Vongai Mangwiro

 

Chapter Nine – Assisted Desistance and Social Work

Christian Ghanem and Franz Zahradnik

 

Chapter Ten – Green Activism and Social Networks of Care, Repair and Action: A Criminological Perspective

Anna Di Ronco and Nigel South

 

Part II – Social Work in the Prison System

 

Chapter Eleven – Prison social work: Challenges and proposals from a Global North-South dialogue

Miguel Urra Canales and Francisco Reyes Torres

 

Chapter Twelve – Centralised and embedded in-house social work in Swiss prisons: Challenges and opportunities for the resulting roles

Marina Richter, Julia Emprechtinger and Martin Böhnel

 

Chapter Thirteen – Social Intervention in Semi-Open Prisons in Spain

Diego Ruedas Torres, Francesca Columbano and Consuelo del Val Cid

 

Chapter Fourteen – Social work behind bars in Latin America: A website-based, initial exploration

Guillermo Sanhueza  Josefina Alarcón and Dan Valdivia

 

Chapter Fifteen – The Extended Effects of Incarceration in Latin America: The Central Role of Women

Vanina Ferreccio

 

Chapter Sixteen – Together, a Chance: Piloting family social workers in two women’s prisons in England, UK

Joanne Mulcahy, Becky Wray, Katia Parent, Alyson Rees, Charlotte Waits and Zoe Bezeczky

 

Chapter Seventeen – Looking out as well as in: Justice Social Workers, Prison Yoga Teachers and resisting ‘secondhand carcerality’ in UK prisons

Rose Parkes

 

Chapter Eighteen – Behind Bars: Lived Experiences of Youth Prisoners and Social Work Intervention in Indian Prisons

Parishmita Dutta

 

Part III – Children, Youth and Criminal Justice Social Work

 

Chapter Nineteen – The Penal System for Young Offenders in Germany: (Un-)ambiguous tasks of social work. Professional work in the reflection of contradictions and (un-)certainties

Sarah Blume

Chapter Twenty – Hidden in plain sight: Differential approaches to ‘best interests’ protection of minors in the justice systems in Spain and Ireland

Esther Raya-Diez, Gloria Kirwan, Ana Belén Cuesta and Claire Quinn

 

Chapter Twenty-one – Determinants and methods of resocialization of juvenile offenders -

A Polish perspective

Justyna Siemionow

 

Chapter Twenty-two – Social Work and Chilean Drug Treatment Courts for Juvenile Offenders

Claudia Reyes-Quilodrán and Jeanne Hersant

 

Chapter Twenty-three – Trauma Informed Youth Offending Practice: Ethical Considerations

Donna-Maree Humphery

 

Chapter Twenty-four – Lived experience informed criminal justice social work in England: A case of Generative Justice?

Danica Darley and Gillian Buck

 

Chapter Twenty-five – Surviving violence: Analysing youth violence and the role of social workers in facilitating restorative justice services in post-apartheid South Africa

Luvuyo Teko, Sisanda Mguzulwa and Lufuno Sadiki

 

Chapter Twenty-six – Critical Social Work and Youth Justice: Reimagining Practice Through Reflexivity, Collaboration, and Anti-Oppressive Frameworks

Kristel Campbell-Bobb

Chapter Twenty-seven - Lived experience and meaning making. Stories of courage over childhood adversity

Stephanie Hunter

 

Part IV – Social Work, Health and Justice

 

Chapter Twenty-eight – Social work's role in promoting continuity of care in Health and Justice

Elizabeth Taylor-Diparno

 

Chapter Twenty-nine – Behind the closed doors - The journey to recovery: Insights into ‘inpatient’ forensic social work and the role of the forensic social worker

Natalia Phillips and Oshéa Johnson

 

Chapter Thirty – Addiction in the Family: A Critical Reflection of Family Recovery and Lessons Learned for Forensic Social Work

Michael John Norton

 

Chapter Thirty-one – Criminal Justice Social Work in Ghanaian Hospitals: A Qualitative examination of the hospital social work role in promoting criminal justice in Ghanaian Hospitals

John Boulard Forkuor, Kwadwo Ofori-Dua, David Forkuor, Franklin Abeiku Siaw Benyin and Florence Kyei Baffour

 

Chapter Thirty-two – Promoting community-based social work for justice-involved people with mental illness in Japan

Hiroki Toi

 

Chapter Thirty-three – Brain injury rehabilitation behind closed doors: Reflections from delivering neurorehabilitation in prisons in the United Kingdom

Annmarie Burns and Elorm Boglo

 

Chapter Thirty-four – The Social and Health Care Needs of Older Prisoners in England and Wales

Paul Gavin, Cody Normitta Porter and Finley Macdonald

 

Part V – Social Exclusion and Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System

 

Chapter Thirty-five – Social work as family policing

Stephen Crossley

 

Chapter Thirty-six – Children in Care, Care Leavers, and Criminological Outcomes: Current Evidence and Future Research Directions Relating to Socioeconomic Factors in the UK

Guy Skinner

 

Chapter Thirty-seven – When Culture and Safeguarding Collide: Identifying and Preventing Child Exploitation in Roma Communities

Sarah Shorrock, Gareth Addidle, Daniel Balaz, Diane Holdsworth and Rebecca Wilkins

 

Chapter Thirty-eight – Homelessness in context: A South African perspective of victimisation and policy intervention

Lufuno Sadiki and Jean-Paul Pophaim

 

Chapter Thirty-nine – Neurodiversity in the Youth Justice System in England and Wales: An Evolving Landscape

Vicky Palmer

 

Chapter Forty – The Effectiveness of an Emotional Regulation Model for Black Men in Batterer Intervention Programs in the United States

Chelsea Hood

 

 Chapter Forty-one – From Parole Officer to Social Work Professor in Canada: Criminal justice social work education and practice with Deaf offenders

Tracey A. Bone

 

Chapter Forty-two – Utilising Restorative Justice to Break the Cycle of Harm for Children in Conflict with the Law: South African Perspectives

Marelize I Schoeman

 

Part VI – Police Social Work, Social Work in Courts and Criminal Justice Social Work with Communities

 

Chapter Forty-three – Bringing a human rights-based approach to the supervision of court orders

David Cross

 

Chapter Forty-four – Diversion from Prosecution in Scotland: Promises and pitfalls

Ross Gibson and Cara Jardine

 

Chapter Forty-five – Police Social Work in India

Ruchi Sinha, Sony Kunjappan and Donita Quadros

                               

Chapter Forty-six – Forensic Social Work in the Courts of Justice in Spain

Rafael Alcázar Ruiz, Raúl Soto Esteban and Domingo Carbonero Muñoz

 

Chapter Forty-seven – Mainstreaming Social Work Intervention as an Element of Fair Trial

Monica Sakhrani and Medha Deo

 

Chapter Forty-eight – Justice Social Work in Scotland: Research, Education and Practice in a Devolved Jurisdiction

Jamie Buchan and Scott Grant

 

Chapter Forty-nine – Accompanying victims in trials for human rights violations in Argentina and Chile: Social work practices as part of an interdisciplinary approach

Carla Cubillos Vega

 

Chapter Fifty – Social work in special jurisdictions (JEP and community justice) in Colombia, from a human rights approach

Ginneth Esmeralda Narvaéz Jaimes, Miguel Urra, Germán Alexander Gamba Trimiño and Edwin Jaime Ruiz

 

Chapter Fifty-one – 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

Anna Kemp, Linda Fisk and Michele Jarldorn

Biography

Caroline J. Bald is Lecturer in Social Work at the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on inclusive social work education admissions and curricula.

María Inés Martínez Herrero is Lecturer in Social Work at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain. Her research focuses on human rights, social justice and social work histories.