Drug Addiction and Juvenile Justice

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-696
Author(s):  
Gilda Scardaccione
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Service Agencies

Drug abuse in juveniles is a complex juridical matter. There is neither specific legislation enacted nor special therapeutic programs for deviant populations of this age. Statistics are limited to drug addicts who have been involved with state agencies, such as administrative, judicial or police departments. In recent years some reforms have been enacted, especially for procedural aspects of the trial. Legislation now in force offers opportunities for alternative dispositions for juvenile drug addicts, including educational programs under the supervision of social service agencies. This situation can be improved further by better coordination between drug abuse legislation and juridical norms concerning the procedural phase of the trial. The problem of juveniles and drug abuse, especially when organized crime is involved, has distinctive characteristics which require different control strategies. Peer group influences seem to be the primary psychological dynamic motivating adolescent drug abuse.

Police Social Work

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
George T. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Substance Use And Abuse ◽  
Service Agencies

Police social workers are professionally trained social workers or individuals with related academic degrees employed within police departments or social service agencies who receive referrals primarily from police officers. Their primary functions are to provide direct services such as crisis counseling and mediation to individuals and families experiencing social problems such as mental illness, alcohol and substance use and abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse, among others. Additional functions of police social workers include training police officers in stress management, mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse; providing consultation to police officers; and counseling police officers and their families.

Social Reality of the Drug Problem: New York's Lower East Side

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
Clayton Hartjen ◽  
Richard Quinney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
Service Agencies

The scope and nature of social problems are frequently a creation of the various organizations and agencies established to deal with some aspect of community concern. The "educational" and other activities of these groups can be seen as attempts at reality construction. Regarding these efforts, this study examined the kind and effectiveness of drug addiction programs sponsored by social service agencies in New York City's Lower East Side and found them to be wanting. The absence of drug programs and the inability of these agencies to effectively carry out projects of this (and any other) kind appears to be a consequence of the funding structure and the existence of conflict between agencies. It is argued, however, that these agencies can serve as a principal base from which community control over and ultimately any just solution to the drug problem may be initiated.

Building capacity in social service agencies to employ peer providers.

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Gates ◽  
James M. Mandiberg ◽  
Sheila H. Akabas
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Service Agencies

Increasing Staff Sensitivity to the Black Client

1983 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 419-425
Author(s):  
Richard L. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Service Agencies

Many human service practitioners working with black families lack a knowledge of black culture. Social service agencies must address this deficiency through the provision of staff development programs. Such programs, to be sound, need to be developed with an awareness of critical issues and principles.

Financial recession as a predictor of stress in human service professionals: The case of Cyprus

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Gregory Neocleous ◽  
Menelaos Apostolou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Human Service Professionals ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Current Financial Crisis ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Financial Recession

This article presents the first survey ever conducted in Cyprus in relation to stress in social service organizations as a result of budgetary cuts due to the financial recession the country entered in 2010. Social service professionals were asked whether and how they experienced the current economic crisis in their work. The aim of the study was to examine whether the recent economic crisis in Cyprus was a predictor for stress. This article has no intention of examining stress per se, but rather the general consequences for professionals working in governmental and non-governmental social service organizations. The purpose of the study is to examine whether the current financial crisis in Cyprus has affected the work of social service professionals. The participants in our study included social workers, psychologists and sociologists, as well as administrative staff from governmental and non-governmental social service agencies and volunteer organizations. In total, 205 professionals working in 200 social service agencies in Cyprus took part in this survey by completing a questionnaire. A focus group consisting of eight individuals was also formed. The results indicate that social service professionals have been significantly affected by the recent financial recession in Cyprus.

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