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Social Work, Criminal Justice and their reconfiguring relationships

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Abstract

This paper aims to explore the reconfiguring relationships between social work and criminal justice, focusing mainly on developments in Anglophone jurisdictions. After briefly describing the nature, forms and functions of criminal justice social work itself, it provides a discussion critical and comparative research concerned with the character and development of CJSW itself as a set of social and penal practices. The analysis of this body of work leads the authors to call for a thoroughgoing re-examination and re-invigoration of the relationships between criminology, criminal justice and social work.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)114-124
Number of pages11
JournalRevista de Asistenta Sociala
Volume8
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2010

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • criminal justice social work
  • probation
  • parole
  • corrections
  • offender management

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