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 Social Work, Criminal Justice and their Reconfiguring Relationships

    by:
  • Fergus McNeill (Professor, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Florentine House, 53 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QR, Tel: ++44 (0)141 330 5075 Fax: ++44 (0)141 330 4300, E-mail: F.McNeill@lbss.gla.ac.uk)
  • Denis Bracken (Professor, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, 70 Dysart, Road Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M6, Tel: (204) 474-8581, Fax: (204) 474-7620, E-mail: bracken@cc.umanitoba.ca)
  • Alan Clarke (Professor, University of Aberystwyth, Department of Law and Criminology, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY, Tel: 01970 622718 Fax: 01970 622729, E-mail: ahc@aber.ac.uk)

This paper aims to explore the reconfiguring relationships between social work and criminal justice, focusing mainly on developments in Anglophone jurisdictions. After briefly describing the nature, forms and functions of criminal justice social work itself, it provides a discussion critical and comparative research concerned with the character and development of CJSW itself as a set of social and penal practices. The analysis of this body of work leads the authors to call for a thoroughgoing re-examination and re-invigoration of the relationships between criminology, criminal justice and social work.

Keywords: criminal justice social work; probation, parole, corrections, offender management