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Social work, criminal justice, and the death penalty / edited by Lauren A. Ricciardelli.

Contributor(s): Material type: Computer fileComputer fileLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (312, pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780197541562 (e-book)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV8699  U5So1 2020
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Contents:
I. Introduction -- Section I. Criminal justice considerations -- 1. Going, going, gone : the death of capital punishment in the 21st century -- 2. Methodological and procedural considerations -- 3. Jury considerations in capital -- 4. The history of mitigation in death penalty cases -- 5. Social workers in capital defense practice: demystifying human frailty/empowering conscience -- Section II. Sociopolitical considerations -- 6.On Capital punishment -- 7. Structuralism, neoliberalism, and the U.S. criminal justice system -- 8. The criminalization of poverty -- 9. Mass incarceration : the politics of race, gender, and U.S. prison industry -- 10. A public health case for the abolition of the death penalty -- 11. Affecting legislative change from the judicial perspective -- Section III. Social work considerations -- 12 Linking the social services and criminal justice systems -- 13. Serious mental Illness, criminal justice, and the death penalty -- 14. Intellectual disability, criminal justice, and the death penalty -- 15. Immigration, Foreign Nationals, and the U.S. death penalty -- 16. The death penalty from the family perspective -- 17. The relevance of trauma and secondary trauma to death penalty cases -- 18. Advocacy, activism, and policy practice: social workers as advocates for criminal legal system reforms
Summary: Social Work, Criminal Justice, and the Death Penalty aims to prepare undergraduate and graduate students to take an active role in the contemporary death penalty discourse in the United States by providing key insights from professionals who are engaged as legal, forensic, academic, and social work experts. In this textbook, contributing authors write accessibly from their own experiences and expertise in death penalty cases and related social issues from a critical, social justice, and human rights perspective—all intended to better inform the burgeoning social work and criminal justice professional. To this end, the present textbook is comprised of three sections: Criminal Justice Considerations, Sociopolitical Considerations, and Applied Social Work Considerations. Across the three sections, each chapter provides explicit implications for the social work profession in the criminal justice setting. Examples of the various roles that social work professionals can and do take up related to the death penalty, including working directly with death sentenced persons and their families; participating in mitigation work; contributing to the field of research devoted to the intersections of mental health and the criminal justice system; as clinically licensed social workers, by engaging in the critical discourse that is being had between the psychiatric and psychological professions and the legal profession when death eligibility hinges on a clinical determination; and, finally, using social advocacy and policy practice to take up the death penalty from a social justice framework.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

I. Introduction -- Section I. Criminal justice considerations -- 1. Going, going, gone : the death of capital punishment in the 21st century -- 2. Methodological and procedural considerations -- 3. Jury considerations in capital -- 4. The history of mitigation in death penalty cases -- 5. Social workers in capital defense practice: demystifying human frailty/empowering conscience -- Section II. Sociopolitical considerations -- 6.On Capital punishment -- 7. Structuralism, neoliberalism, and the U.S. criminal justice system -- 8. The criminalization of poverty -- 9. Mass incarceration : the politics of race, gender, and U.S. prison industry -- 10. A public health case for the abolition of the death penalty -- 11. Affecting legislative change from the judicial perspective -- Section III. Social work considerations -- 12 Linking the social services and criminal justice systems -- 13. Serious mental Illness, criminal justice, and the death penalty -- 14. Intellectual disability, criminal justice, and the death penalty -- 15. Immigration, Foreign Nationals, and the U.S. death penalty -- 16. The death penalty from the family perspective -- 17. The relevance of trauma and secondary trauma to death penalty cases -- 18. Advocacy, activism, and policy practice: social workers as advocates for criminal legal system reforms

Social Work, Criminal Justice, and the Death Penalty aims to prepare undergraduate and graduate students to take an active role in the contemporary death penalty discourse in the United States by providing key insights from professionals who are engaged as legal, forensic, academic, and social work experts. In this textbook, contributing authors write accessibly from their own experiences and expertise in death penalty cases and related social issues from a critical, social justice, and human rights perspective—all intended to better inform the burgeoning social work and criminal justice professional. To this end, the present textbook is comprised of three sections: Criminal Justice Considerations, Sociopolitical Considerations, and Applied Social Work Considerations. Across the three sections, each chapter provides explicit implications for the social work profession in the criminal justice setting. Examples of the various roles that social work professionals can and do take up related to the death penalty, including working directly with death sentenced persons and their families; participating in mitigation work; contributing to the field of research devoted to the intersections of mental health and the criminal justice system; as clinically licensed social workers, by engaging in the critical discourse that is being had between the psychiatric and psychological professions and the legal profession when death eligibility hinges on a clinical determination; and, finally, using social advocacy and policy practice to take up the death penalty from a social justice framework.

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