Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom
Author: Mary Lay Schuster
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1555537499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a deeply textured view of how victims' voices are introduced and heard in courts
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Quality Victim Advocacy
Author: David L. Voth
Publisher:
Published: 2010-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780984212217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive manual for measuring and improving quality and outcomes in crime victim service programs. Written to help providers and administrators design and implement services that are victim-centered and victim-driven.
Victimology and Victim Assistance
Author: Yoshiko Takahashi
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2018-11-14
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1544350732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictimology and Victim Assistance offers insights into the criminal justice system from the perspective of often overlooked participants—victims. Delving into victim involvement in the criminal justice system, the impact of crime on victims, and new directions in victimology and victim assistance, authors Yoshiko Takahashi and Chadley James provide crucial insights and practical applications into the field of victim assistance. With an emphasis on advocacy, intervention, and restoration, this book examines real issues and barriers in the criminal justice system for victims and offers a way forward for future criminal justice or other human service professionals.
Forensic Social Work
Author: Tina Maschi, PhD, LCSW, ACSW
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2017-07-26
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0826120679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extensively revised edition reviews the latest research and practices in forensic social work. Readers learn to integrate socio-legal knowledge when working with diverse populations in a variety of settings. Noted interdisciplinary contributors review the most common forensic issues encountered in the field to better prepare readers to deal with the resulting financial, psychological, emotional, and legal ramifications. Using a human rights and social justice approach, the book demonstrates the use of a forensic lens when working with individuals, families, organizations, and communities that struggle with social justice issues. Each chapter features objectives, competencies, Voices From the Field, a conclusion, exercises, and additional resources. The book is ideal for MSW and BSW courses in forensic social work as well as forensic/legal courses taught in criminal justice and psychology. Practitioners working in a variety of settings who must have a working knowledge of forensic social work will also appreciate this comprehensive overview of the field. Key Features: Highlights working with various populations such as minorities, immigrants, veterans, the elderly, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, substance abusers, trauma survivors, and more. Reviews the field’s conceptual and historical foundation and pertinent laws to better prepare readers for professional practice (Part I). Introduces the most common forensic issues encountered when working in various settings, including health care, social and protective services, the child welfare system, the criminal justice system, school systems, immigration services, addiction treatment facilities, and more (Part II). Provides a wealth of practical guidance via case studies and interviewing, assessment, and intervention tips. Voices From the Field written by seasoned practitioners introduce common situations readers are likely to encounter. New to this Edition: Highlights the 2015 Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Policies and Accreditation Standards throughout the text. Greatly expanded coverage from 26 to 33 chapters with more information on health care, housing, employment, the juvenile and criminal justice system, adult protective services, and the dynamics of oppression. New Part III dedicated t
Moral Wages
Author: Kenneth H. Kolb
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-07-18
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0520282728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse, Moral Wages focuses exclusively on the service providers in the middle. It shows how victim advocates and counselors—who don't enjoy extrinsic benefits like pay, power, and prestige—are sustained by a different kind of compensation. As long as they can overcome a number of workplace dilemmas, they earn a special type of emotional reward reserved for those who help others in need: moral wages. As their struggles mount, though, it becomes clear that their jobs often put them in impossible situations—requiring them to aid and feel for vulnerable clients, yet giving them few and feeble tools to combat a persistent social problem.
Ethics in Victim Services
Author: Melissa Hook
Publisher: Sidran Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781886968172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelping Crime Victims
Author: Albert R. Roberts
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1990-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTopics covered include overview of victimology, victim services and witness assistance programs, missing and murdered children in America, crisis intervention with battered women and their children, police-based crisis teams, telephone hotline programs and services for family violence survivors.
Critical Issues in Restorative Justice
Author: Howard Zehr
Publisher:
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781881798514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a mere quarter-century, restorative justice has grown from a few scattered experimental projects into a worldwide social movement, as well as an indentifiable field of practice and study. Moving beyond its origins in the criminal justice arena, restorative justice is now being applied in schools, homes, and the workplace. The 31 chapters in this book confront the key threats to the 'soul' of this emerging international movement. The contributing authors are long-term advocates and practitioners of restorative justice from North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Working with Victims of Crime with Disabilities
Author: Cheryl Guidry Tyiska
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Work in Juvenile and Criminal Justice Settings
Author: Albert R. Roberts
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0398076766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this completely revised and updated classic, Professors Roberts and Springer, along with 51 justice-oriented and forensic experts, have set the standard of care for mental health treatment and the delivery of social services to crime victims, juvenile and adult offenders, and their families. The second edition of Social Work in Juvenile and Criminal Justice Settings was published almost ten years ago in 1997, and was also translated to Chinese. Now Dr. Roberts, Dr. Springer, and their team of 51 prominent chapter authors have done such a thorough job of updating and finding new authors, that the end result is a comprehensive new book. In this third edition, 16 of the 31 chapters are new and specially written for this book. A growing number of mental health professionals are recognizing the need to examine current evidence-based program developments, assessment, and treatment practices with crime victims and offenders. This book focuses on the multiple roles and practices of justice social workers, also known as forensic social workers and crisis counselors. Many professional social workers, counselors and field placement students work in corrections and probation, forensic mental health, addictions treatment, juvenile justice, victim assistance, and police social work settings. In the words of Dean Barbara W. White (former President, Council on Social Work Education, and NASW) in her laudatory Foreword to this edition: "This groundbreaking book provides the necessary blueprints and guidelines for best practices with crime victims as well as juvenile and adult offenders in institutional, community- based, diversion, and aftercare programs. . . . This is the first all-inclusive, authoritative, exceptionally well-written volume on social policies and social work practices in both juvenile justice and criminal justice settings. . . . This book is a landmark achievement." An increasing number of offenders and victims have been found to be
