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SOCIAL WORK
Criminal Justice Social Work
A South African practice framework
L HOLTZHAUSEN (EDITOR)
Criminal Justice Social Work: A South African Practice Framework is a text for those working with criminal offenders and victims of crime. It offers readers a grounding in theory, research, practice and clinical expertise for practising effectively in the field of criminal justice. Readers are exposed to a wide range of methods, techniques and interventions situated in a uniquely South African practice framework for addressing criminal justice issues and challenges.
CONTENTS
• What is criminal justice social work?
• The Criminal Justice Practice
Framework
• Working with offenders
• Working with victims of crime
• A developmental social work
approach to crime prevention
through restorative justice
• Working with addicted and
substance-abusing offenders
• Assessment of general, violent/ aggressive and sex offenders
ABOUT THE EDITOR
• Working with youth sexual offenders • Assessment of economic offenders
• Aetiology of crime and assessment
indicators of female offenders
• Criminology and the criminologists’
role in offender assessment practices • The practice of offender assessment:
integrated needs and risk assessment
criteria
• Future directions for offender
assessment
978 0 70218 911 1 978 0 70219 564 8 2012
272 PAGES
ZAR R437.00 ZAR R408.00
Dr Leon Holzhausen is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town.
SUITABLE FOR
Senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in social work, criminology, correctional practice, probation and parole, criminal justice, psychology and sociology.
Introduction to Social Work
L NICHOLAS, J RAUTENBACH & M MAISTRY (EDITORS)
Introduction to Social Work deals effectively with relevant aspects of the nationally approved exit level outcomes that were formulated by the Social Work Standards Generating Body. This comprehensive book deals with a range of issues, from the early history of social work, to working with individuals and small groups in contemporary debates around economic policy, and macro level intervention, management, administration and research. It also covers youth at risk, HIV/AIDS, child sexual abuse and addiction as particular fields of practice. It also covers poverty, diversity and multicultural practice, values and ethics and theories for practice.
SUITABLE FOR
Senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in social work, criminology, correctional practice, probation and parole, criminal justice, psychology and sociology.
978 0 70217 768 2 2010
400 PAGES
ZAR R466.00
JUTA EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
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