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E-raamat: Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Justice Social Work [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

  • Formaat: 594 pages, 15 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge International Handbooks
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003717270
  • Taylor & Francis e-raamat
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  • Formaat: 594 pages, 15 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge International Handbooks
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003717270

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.



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.

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 womens 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.
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.