Create a Workshop for Probations Officers on How Social Work is Applied to Those Systems
For your final assignment, prepare a workshop for those employed in the criminal justice system to enhance their knowledge on how social work is applied to these systems including why Social workers understand how diversity and difference characterize and shape the human experience and are critical to the formation of identity.
You may prepare a general presentation for all criminal justice professionals or select a specific population, such as probation officers.
Describe the criminal justice system, its purpose, and the population it serves.
Discuss competencies in evidenced-based practice and model programs for offenders, victims of crime, and their families showing an understanding that evidence that informs practice derives from multi-disciplinary sources and multiple ways of knowing.
Explain the development of the criminal personality and its relationship to the justice system. Illustrate how biological and environmental risks and protective factors lead to antisocial trajectories (micro, mezzo, and macro) and to the development of intervention strategies to improve outcomes.
Determine factors that contribute to the over-representation of people of color, the perception of racial bias, and social class distinction within the criminal justice system integrating content related to understanding strategies designed to eliminate oppressive structural barriers to ensure that social goods, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably and that civil, political, environmental, economic, social, and cultural human rights are protected.
Describe the principles of evidence-based practice and restorative justice in treatment, program development, and evaluation including how social workers understand their role in policy development and implementation within their practice settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and they actively engage in policy practice to effect change within those settings.
Explain how your audience can apply evidence-based strategies while working in an interdisciplinary team with forensic social workers.
Explain how social workers utilize risk assessment and instruments with criminal offenders and trauma assessment with victims of crime, including the appropriate use and limitations of psychometric and risk assessment tools recognizing that assessment is an ongoing component of the dynamic and interactive process of social work practice with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Examine how forensic social workers testify in court and collaborate with other professionals.
Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 10-12 pages, not including title and reference pages
