SOCIJALNA ZAŠTITA KAO DEO FORMALNE DRUŠTVENE REAKCIJE NA KRIMINALITET MALOLETNIKA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snežana Soković ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Response ◽  
Juvenile Criminality ◽  
Prevention And Treatment

Social work and crime prevention are synergistically linked: crime prevention and treatment of offenders are an integral part of social policy, and solving social problems is a strong factor in crime prevention, which is why social work presents an important segment of the formal social response to crime. Social protection institutions have a particularly important role in combating juvenile delinquency. The paper analyzes the place and role of social work and social protection services in the formal reaction of society to juvenile criminality in the context of contemporary criminological knowledge about the etiology of juvenile delinquency. The situation, problems and perspectives of social work in the function of prevention of juvenile criminality in Serbia are especially analyzed.

Why Countries ‘Get Tough on the Work-Shy’: The Role of Adverse Economic Conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (03) ◽  
pp. 615-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLO KNOTZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Clear Trend ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Large N ◽  
Economic Downturns ◽  
Historical Periods

AbstractThere has been a clear trend toward greater conditionality and coercion in labour market and social policy in recent decades, a key part of which is tougher sanctions for unemployment benefit claimants who refuse offers of employment or otherwise fail to comply with their obligations. Our understanding of this trend and its determinants is so far built only on a corpus of small-N evidence, while systematic comparative large-N analyses are lacking. As a result, the broad patterns of policy change and their general political drivers remain underexplored. This paper fills this gap by examining unemployment benefit sanction reforms in 20 democracies between 1980 and 2012 using an original dataset. It is shown that governments introduce tougher sanctions in order to reconcile two competing pressures that arise during economic downturns: an increased need for social protection and reduced fiscal revenues. The findings, which are also applicable to other historical periods and policy areas, provide an impulse for future comparative large-N research on ‘demanding activation’ policies.

Social Work's Evolution in the United Kingdom: A Study of Community Care and Social Control

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. David Harrison
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Model Of Practice

Community social work was a model of practice that was advocated by many roughly from the late 1970s through the 1980s, in the United Kingdom. The approach faded as the field of social work and social services changed drastically in subsequent years. This study conducted in 2006 and 2007, follows up a 1984 study of community social work advocates to learn how the same people understood the changes that occurred over more than 20 years. A total of 9 of the original 30 participants discussed the important role of social policy and social changes that appear to have led toward more individualized, mechanistic, and often control-oriented services.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Socioeconomic Crisis in Portugal on Social Protection and Social Work Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13198
Author(s):  
Inês Casquilho-Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews

The effects of the international crisis brought economic and financial risks, as well as consequences for human, social and sustainable development. This study aims to analyse the effects of social intervention with families since the 2008 crisis in Portugal. Through a qualitative approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with social workers (23), to identify the main impacts of the crisis and the adopted social intervention practices. We highlight a new increase in social problems and the growth of vulnerable groups facing an unprepared social protection system. The Portuguese case reveals that the effects of austerity have shown a decline in the welfare and benefits system, leading to worsened social problems, such as increased poverty and unemployment, as well as social inequalities. Social Work was required to respond to these consequences, although organisational contexts and austerity measures constrained practitioners’ autonomy. By reflecting on this critical period, we seek to contribute to better social protection and assistance models in the face of the current and future crisis. In this sense, Social Work practice ensures a means to guarantee fundamental rights and social justice, preparing social workers and social intervention for new challenges in crisis contexts.

Book Reviews

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Intimate Violence ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
International Social

Book reviews: Hugman, Richard, Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions (reviewed by Ramesh Mishra); Mullard, M. and P. Spicker, Social Policy in a Changing Society (reviewed by Ann Lavan); Lyons, K., International Social Work: Themes and Perspectives (reviewed by Paul Stubbs); Blakemore, Ken, Social Policy: An Introduction (reviewed by Jill Manthorpe); Smithies, Jan and Georgina Webster, Community Involvement in Health: From PAssive Receipts to Active Participants (reviewed by Pat Shannon); Davies, J., E. Lyon and D. Monti-Catania, Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices (reviewed by Robert Harding); Bergen, Racquel Kennedy(ed), Issues in Intimate Violence (reviewed by Michael Crawford); Marmor, Theodore R. and Philip R. De Jong, Social Security and Affordability (reviewed by Dr. Gail Wilson); Chambon, Adrienne S.; Allan Irvine and Laura Epstein Eds., Reading Foucault for Social Work (reviewed by Bob Mulally)

Establishing a national standard: the role of the UK’s Minimum Income Standard in policy and practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 307-318
Author(s):  
Donald Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Uk

This chapter promotes the UK Minimum Income Standards (MIS) as a benchmark in social policy and practice. It explains how the MIS research continues to have a strong influence over social policy debates in Britain and exposes the inadequacy of the national minimum wage that helped fuel the campaign for a “living wage.” It also features MIS as a key element in the new Scottish measure of fuel poverty. The chapter observes how MIS has not been taken up by governments as a standard for setting or targeting minimum incomes in terms of social protection. It observes that it will require a major political commitment to redistribution if the British government were to adopt MIS.

Social work academia and social policy in Israel: on the role of social work academics in the policy process

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Idit Weiss-Gal ◽  
John Gal
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Work Faculty ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Schools Of Social Work ◽  
Policy Engagement

This study contributes to research on policy practice by enriching our knowledge about the forms that the policy engagement of social work academics takes, the dynamics of this engagement, and the factors associated with it. The study is based on structured interviews with 24 faculty members from schools of social work in Israel, all of whom are actively involved in policy formulation. The findings of the study reveal that participants are motivated by ideology and values to engage in policy and that they do so despite their perception that there is a lack of institutional support for this type of activity. The participants report that they successfully manage to combine their policy-related activities with teaching and research. The study also indicates that the social policy formulation process in Israel offers specific opportunities for the policy engagement of social work faculty.

scholarly journals Role of the institutions of provincial government in resolving social problems of the population of the Belarusian provinces (1861–1914)

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-317
Author(s):  
N. S. Motorova
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Xix Century

The article describes the structure and powers of the provincial government in the implementation of the main directions of state social policy. It was noted that on theterritoryofBelarusthey played a major role in solving the social problems of the population due to the lack of zemstvos. The outdated legal framework and the lack of a clear division of functions hampered their effectiveness.In the mid 1880s regulatory committees were established in the structure of the provincial institutions. On the territory of the Belarusian provinces they played an important role in the implementation of social policy, as they controlled the financing of the rural­medical part and partly public charity. However, the experience of the activities of the regulatory committees was unsatisfactory. In this regard, at the end of the XIX century the Interior Ministry proposed to eliminate them, as well as to abolish the provincial food commissions and departments of public charity. It was planned to transfer their functions to the zemstvos. This proposal was implemented partially, as a result of the introduction of the institutions of local economy in theVitebsk,MinskandMogilevprovinces in 1903.At the end of the XIX century in the structure of the provincial administration ofBelaruswere created the offices which were entrusted with the functions of monitoring compliance with the workers’ legislation, and then the insurance of workers. They were formed under the influence of new social demands. These offices corresponded to new social and economic conditions, in contrast to the provincial institutions, which managed public charity, national food and health care.

scholarly journals Some Useful Sources

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-512
Author(s):  
Theodoros Papadopoulos ◽  
Ricardo Velázquez Leyer
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The World

The literature on social protection in Latin America – and more specifically on Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) – is substantial and growing as, increasingly, more academics from around the world seem to be attracted to social policy developments in the region and the role of CCTs in these developments. As the articles in our themed section cite many of the key sources on particular aspects of CCTs, we chose in this guide to highlight those sources we consider essential for any academic interested to investigate CCTs and, more broadly, the development of social policies in Latin America for research or teaching purposes.

scholarly journals Peran Pengasuh Panti Asuhan Membentuk Karakter Disiplin dalam Meningkatkan Kecerdasan Intrapersonal Anak

AN-NISA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 354-363
Author(s):  
A. Mustika Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Service Program ◽  
Intrapersonal Intelligence

This article shows the role of caregiver of orphanage to form the character of discipline in improving children intrapersonal intelligence. The orphanage is a social institution that has a service program that is provided to answer the needs of the community in order to deal with social problems, especially the problems of poverty, stupidity and the problems of orphans, abandoned children who grow in the community. With the role of caregiver of the orphanage is to provide services based on the profession of social work to children who do not have a father or mother (orphan) or both (orphans) as a substitute for parents by loving, helping and guiding (nursing, preserving, and educating) the child is expected to form the character of discipline so as to improve the intrapersonal intelligence of the child (the intelligence in himself to recognize and understand himself).

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