By Michael C. Gross, Institute for Advancing Justice Research and Innovation & Smart Decarceration Initiative, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
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…
Legalized Slavery Still Exists and Social Workers Need to Do Something About It
By Ceema Samimi, MSSW, MPA
By Aaron Gottlieb, Assistant Professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. Email: agott19@uic.edu
This past week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo to federal prosecutors reviving the tough-on-crime rhetoric of recent decades — rhetoric which had begun to be put to rest under the Obama administration and the leadership of Former AG Eric…
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…
