What Social Work Uniquely Provides to Criminal Justice

The Impact of Mass Incarceration on People of Color, Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, and Insights from MSW Criminal Justice Students

Social work and the politics of criminal justice reform

By Lindsey LaPointe, Illinois-based criminal justice advocate.

A previous Smart Justice blogger explained that social workers should acknowledge our expertise and knowledge to inform effective changes in…

At Risk to Fall Through the Cracks: Who Are Crossover Youth?

I was at a conference recently where a 16-year-old, African American young man spoke to an audience of practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and other child advocates. Joseph (not his real name), spoke about how, as a young boy, he experienced abuse from a…

Legalized Slavery Still Exists and Social Workers Need to Do Something About It

By Ceema Samimi, MSSW, MPA

Top 3 reasons you should care about people who have been incarcerated

I care a lot about improving the criminal justice system and the people and communities incarceration impacts. As a social worker, a personal and professional mission is to improve social justice. Our criminal…

End the Demand! For Ideologically Based Human Trafficking Responses

by Kathleen M. Preble, MSW, PhD

We’ve all heard them. Stories about an exceptionally young female (usually White) who has been sexually trafficked by an older, sociopathic male (usually a…