Police Social Work

Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10123-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This revised and expanded second edition of Police Social Work provides a model for developing, implementing, and evaluating police social work and social service collaboration within the context of contemporary policing strategies.

Across 15 chapters, this book covers:

- The practice of professional social work within law enforcement agencies and the types of social problems addressed

- Ethical and other issues that arise when practicing police social work and essential knowledge and skills to address these issues

- Further clarity between the practice of police social work, police and social work collaboration and police and social service collaboration, in which the service providers are not professional social workers

- A model for developing police social work collaborations and investigating collaboration effectiveness

- Expanded roles for police social work practice such as consultation, officer selection, training recruits and police officers, and assisting their families.

Including new chapters on working with vulnerable populations; and first responder, second responder and co-responder models, this volume provides a wealth of case studies and reference material to prepare students for police social work practice, while also serving as a vital resource for police officers, recruits, and students majoring in policing.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patterson, George T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.An Overview of Law Enforcement Agencies 2.The Service Function in Law Enforcement 3.Police Social Work 4.First Responder, Second Responder and Co-Responder Models 5.Knowledge and Skills for Police Social Work Practice 6.Specialist Police Social Work Practice 7.POLICE: A Model for the Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Police Social Work and Police and Social Work Collaboration 8.Child Maltreatment 9.Juveniles 10.Mental Health 11.Domestic Violence 12.Victims of Crime 13.Vulnerable Populations 14.International Police Social Work, Social Work and Police, and Social Service Collaboration 15.The Future of Police Social Work

Über Autor(innen)

George T. Patterson as a certified police instructor and police social worker served as a visiting professor, curriculum adviser and trainer in law enforcement training academies. His written testimony appears in the May 2015 Final Report of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing established by President Obama. Dr. Patterson also served as a panelist during a police social work congressional briefing, and has published on police social work and police stress topics.