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Social Work, Criminal Justice, and the Death Penalty
Oxford University Press
08/10/2020
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Abstract
Social workers have their hands in a lot of big sociopolitical issues. When it comes to the death penalty, their involvement is especially crucial. Social workers might support those receiving the sentence, engage with the families of those sentenced, participate in mitigation work, examine the critical discourse (psychiatric, psychological, and legal) leading up to and after the sentence, contribute to research surrounding mental health as it relates to the criminaljustice system, or even use social advocacy and policy practice to examine the death penalty. In Social Work, Criminal Justice, and the Death Penalty, professionals with backgrounds spanning, law, forensics, academia, and social work combine and explain their experiences surrounding this prominent social justice issue. The book is broken into three sections: Criminal Justice Considerations, Sociopolitical Considerations, and Applied Social Work Considerations. Across each section, chapters provide explicit implications for the social work professional in a criminal justicesetting. The resulting volume equips beginning professionals and students with a holistic overview of the intersection of criminal justice and social justice.
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- Title
- Social Work, Criminal Justice, and the Death Penalty
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- xxviii, 281
- Copyright
- © Oxford University Press 2020
- Identifiers
- 9780190937232; 0190937238; 99380171967806600
- Academic Unit
- Social Work; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English