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Social Work in Correctional
Settings
* V. V. Devasia
Introduction
Social Work is a fast developing profession. Its focus is
on the interaction between individuals and systems in
the social situation. Individuals are dependent on
systems for help in obtaining material or emotional
resources, services and opportunities they require to
actualize their aspirations and to help them cope with
their life tasks.
It has been asked by many whether principles of social
work are applicable in correctional settings. The answer
is in the affirmative, so different methods of social work,
like casework and group work are applicable in
correctional institutions besides probation and parole.
There are restrictions, which the correctional settings
impose upon the delinquent or criminal. Yet, if the
correctional experience is to be useful one and social
worker’s service a genuine helping, these limitations
must be easily dealt with. Therefore, social work
principles, based upon an understanding of the dynamics
of the helping process, hold great promise for useful
service in correctional settings.
* Dr. V. V. Devasia, MSS Institute of Social Work, Nagpur

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Characteristics of Social Work in the
Context of Correction
According to the Social Work Curriculum Study, “Social
Work seeks to enhance the social functioning of
individuals, singly and in groups, by activities focused
upon their social relationships, which constitute the
interaction between man and his environment. The
activities can be grouped into three functions:
restoration of impaired capacity, provision of individual
and social resources and prevention of social
dysfunction.” Hence, social work is a discipline, which
takes preventive and remedial action on problems in
several areas of society. It helps families in economic
or emotional difficulty. It works in medical, and school
situations. It seeks to correct the causes underlying
delinquency and crime. The three functions of social
work, restoration of impaired capacity, provision of
individual and social resources and prevention of social
dysfunction, are intertwined and interdependent.
Restoration can be curative or rehabilitative. Its curative
aspects are to eliminate factors, which have caused
breakdown of functioning, and its rehabilitative aspects
are to organise and rebuild inter-actional patterns.
Provision of resources can be developmental and
educational. The developmental aspects are designed
to further the effectiveness of existing social resources
or to bring to full use the personal abilities for more
effective social interaction. The educational aspect is
structured to make familiar the public with specific
conditions and needs for now or with changing social
resources.
Prevention of social dysfunction involves early discovery,
control, and elimination of conditions and situations,
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hamper effective social functioning. The two main
divisions of prevention of social dysfunction are
prevention of problems in the area of interaction
between individuals and groups and secondly the
prevention of social ills.
The underlying assumptions of social work in the context
of corrections are:
1) Social Work, like all other professions, has problem
solving functions and hence, it can help offenders
in their treatment and rehabilitation.
2) Social Work practice is an art with a scientific and
value foundation and, hence, correctional work is
professional in nature.
3) Social Work as a profession came into being and
continued to develop because it meets human needs
and aspirations recognized by society. Hence, it
assumes some of the socialization and control
functions of society and helps the offenders to
reshape their behaviour.
4) Social Work practice takes its values from those
held by the society of which it is a part. However,
its values are not necessarily or altogether those
universally or predominantly held or practiced in
society and hence, it emphasizes in treatment and
rehabilitation of the offender.
5) The scientific base of social work consists of three
types of knowledge:
a) tested knowledge,
b) hypothetical knowledge that requires
transformation into tested knowledge, and

c) assumptive knowledge (or “Practice wisdom”)
that requires transformation into hypothetical
and then into tested knowledge. The
correctional social worker uses all three types
of knowledge, and carries a professional
responsibility for knowing, at any time, which
type of knowledge he is using and what degree
of scientific certainty is attached to it.
6) The knowledge needed for social work practice is
determined by its goals and functions and the
problems it seeks to solve and, hence, they are
applicable in the administration of correction.
7) The internalization of professional knowledge and
values is a vital characteristic of the professional
social worker, since he is himself the instrument
of professional help and he helps the offender to
change his behaviour.
8) Professional skill is expressed in the activities of
the social worker. It constitutes his artistic creation,
resulting from three internal processes: first,
conscious selection of knowledge pertinent to the
professional task at hand in order to help the
offender, second, fusion of this knowledge with
social work and correctional values; and third, the
expression of this synthesis in professionally
relevant activity to administer correction and to
modify offending behaviour.
These assumptions constitute commitments for the
social worker. It also means that the functions assigned
to social work by society represent a two-fold
responsibility. The first is to determine the professional
activities through which it seeks to reach its socially
approved goals and modify them as necessary in the
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discipline and control over practice that would keep its
professional accountability. A problem developed in the
area of social interaction, whether raised as a problem
by the individual or by a group in the community, calls
for the professional services of the social worker.
In correction, Social Work not only helps individuals,
groups and community to solve problems, but also assists
them to prevent offending behaviour and enrich daily
living. So, the main focus of the social worker is upon
helping people to prevent and control crime. The social
worker usually works with clients on a conscious level,
helping them to face realities and solve problems in
preventing and controlling offending behaviours.
In correction, Social Work is an art because it requires
great skills to understand delinquent and criminal
behaviour. It is a science because of its problem-solving
method and its attempt to be objective in determining
delinquent and criminal activities and in developing
principles and operational concepts to deal with
delinquency and crime. It is a profession because it
encompasses the attributes of a profession in dealing
with offending behaviour.
Values of Social Work in Correction
Social work values are basically the values of democratic
societies, which are mainly the worth of the individual,
the inherent dignity of the human person, society’s
responsibility for contributing to the common good, etc.
For the National Association of Social Workers, the
following six values are listed basic to the practice of
social work:
1) The individual is the primary concern of this society.
2) There is interdependance between individuals in
this society.

3) They have social responsibility towards one
another.
4) There are human needs common to each person,
yet each person is essentially unique and different
from others.
5) An essential attribute of a democratic society is
the realization of the full potential of each
individual and the assumption of his social
responsibility through active participation in society.
6) Society has a responsibility to provide ways in which
obstacles to this self-realization can be overcome
or prevented.
These values are verifiable observations. When values
are focused on ultimate assumptions about man and
what is desirable for him, it becomes obvious that
relatively few basic values exist. So the primary values
of social work are:
1) Society has an obligation to ensure that people have
access to the resources, services and opportunities
they need to meet various life tasks, alleviate
distress and realise their aspirations and values.
2) In providing societal resources, the dignity and
individuality of people should be respected. All other
values in social work originate from these primary
values and contribute to the achievement of goals
based on the primary values. The values dictate
ways in which the worker should interact with
others in carrying out his professional activities so
as to actualize the primary values.
Knowledge of social work may be enhanced by
consideration of some of its distinguishing
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in the total environment. Its emphasis is on the
importance of the family in molding and influencing
behaviour. Utilization of Community resources in
helping people to prevent and control criminality is
another important dimension.
Social work uses six basic methods. Among them
casework, group work and community organisation are
known as the primary methods. Social Welfare
Administration, Social Work Research and Social Action
are the secondary methods. All these methods are
applied in correction in varying degrees. Casework
involves a close face-to-face relationship, mainly on an
individual basis in working with people and their
problems. Group work utilizes the group as the tool to
bring about desired changes in social functioning with
troubled persons. Community organisation is the inter-
group approach towards facing and solving social
problems.
The worker-client relationship is the key in the social
work process in correction. The social worker attempts
to make it possible for the client to face and change his
offending behaviour through this warm, accepting and
understanding relationship.
In social work, four fundamental activities can be
distinguished: assessing the problem, planning for
solution of the problem, implementing the plan and
evaluating the outcome. Assessment of the problem,
such as delinquency and criminal behaviour, requires
various evaluative steps, logically consecutive, but in
practice, synchronized. In the light of this assessment,
a plan of action must be structured. Implementing the
plan involves rendering all the specific and interrelated
services appropriate to the given problem situation in
the light of the assessment and planning. Finally,
evaluation determines the effectiveness of service in

the light of the expected outcome formulated as part of
the planning activity.
Correctional Settings and Task of Social
Workers
To deal with officially identified delinquents and
criminals, every democratic society has created a
system of correctional agencies. These agencies have
been given the task of administering the penalties
assigned to delinquents and criminals. These agencies
are expected to protect the community during the
offender’s period of supervised status by controlling his
behaviour. Furthermore, they are expected to help the
offender, so that he can return to normal status, better
able to be a constructive member of the community.
Probation and Parole are the two main agencies in the
correctional system. Different kinds of correctional
institutions are as follows:
Prisons
Borstal Schools
Schools for Juvenile Delinquents
Remand/Observation Homes
Beggar Homes
Reception Centres, Protective Homes
State Homes, Probation Hostels
The nature of the penalties, which these agencies
administer, is essentially that of a handicapped personal
and social status. This period of down-graded status is
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the community under the guidance of a correctional
social worker.
The handicaps inherent in this status include:
Loss of certain civil rights, such as voting, rights to
enter into certain contracts, etc.
Loss of liberty
Restrictions on mobility
Restrictions on privacy: i.e., the offender must keep
in contact with the supervising officer and must
discuss most aspects of his basic social adjustment.
In correctional agencies, social workers may be known
by such titles as classification officer, treatment worker,
caseworker, group worker, diagnostic clinic worker,
house master, etc. Among these, in the social treatment
point of view, caseworker and group worker stand out
prominently. It is characteristic of the social work task
in the correctional setting that the worker may need to
engage the administration in identifying needed services
and in reformulating job description, so that the
correctional setting may benefit from a fuller use of
social work skills.
Social worker’s specific main tasks in correction are as
follows:
1) Act as the officer of the court or other quasi-judicial
body to investigate and report about the offender
and his social situation, contributing the results of
such social observations in an appropriate and
meaningful way to the making of legal decisions.
2) Supervise the client’s social activities in such a way
that violations of the conditions of his status and

his success in meeting conditions are perceived and
can be reported.
The general control plan provided in the status is
individualized according to the client’s need for
constructive social control.
Controls are provided by the social worker in such
a way that the client is supported in viably
conforming behaviour and inner growth toward self-
control is stimulated.
3) Help the involuntary client to handle the stress
produced by the law enforcement and correctional
process constructively.
Become motivated to ask for and use help in the
modification of delinquent and criminal behaviour.
Modify his behaviour in the direction of increasingly
viable conformity with social expectations.
4) As the formal authority person in the delinquent or
criminal’s life, work with either authorities
associated with the client (parents, teachers,
employees, social agencies, institutional personnel)
in such a way that:
The problems of these authorities with the
delinquent or criminal are alleviated.
The activities of the authorities support the
delinquent or criminal’s efforts towards satisfactory
behaviour.
The delinquent or criminal is more soundly linked
with the resources of his groups and his community.
5) Administer a case load or group load in such a way
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The social worker’s decisions are appropriate and
responsible.
The decisions of other personnel in the
administration of criminal justice are respected,
implemented, and appropriately influenced by the
social worker’s knowledge.
The necessities of legal and administrative
deadlines are observed.
6) Enact a role in a multidiscipline agency involving
shared decisions and teamwork obligations in
partnership with:
Personnel from other professions,
Personnel in the same role as his, but with other
educational backgrounds,
Personnel with sub-professional assignments and
backgrounds,
Personnel from other agencies in the administration
of criminal justice,
Personnel in other agencies who have served the
delinquent/criminal or will do so in the future.
7) Take a responsible part in the social change of the
correctional institution and in the development of
the field of service of the correctional institution,
contributing from his professional knowledge and
experience to the determination of policy.
8) Contribute to developing professional knowledge of
social work in corrections.
The social worker helps the offender to change his
offending behaviour, therefore he can relate

constructively to others and become socially acceptable.
This is done through working with the individual to help
him to change through better understanding of himself
and by tapping his own strengths and resources; and
through modification of his environment to bring about
a more healthy social climate in which he has to live.
The social worker encourages the offender to talk about
his problems, to feel about them, and to come to an
insightful understanding of himself, accompanied by
socially constructive behaviour.
The tasks of the social worker in corrections include
four particular aspects:
Investigation for the purpose of securing
information about the client’s failure or success in
meeting the obligations of his legal status.
The use of controls to modify client’s behaviour.
Acting as a legal authority in the client’s life with
responsibility for value change.
Correctional decision making.
Working with offenders, all these are important,
especially when helping them to adjust better to society.
The correctional social worker’s most important task is
to change the values and behaviour of the offenders, so
that they begin to accept the values of the particular
community. Therefore, social worker’s aim is to help
the offender, not to punish him. The goal is to utilize
the knowledge and skills of the profession in a
corrective manner, to rehabilitate the offender, to help
him to help himself, so that he can return to and become
a part of his society and to lead a constructive life.
The professional worker, who would be effective in work
with delinquents and criminals in the correctional
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Knowledge of:
Delinquent and criminal behaviour as one form of
deviance.
The Psychological and social strains, which, in various
constellations, press individuals towards such
behaviour.
The body of techniques, which is learned by the offender
in order to commit offences and to protect himself in
dealing with community authorities.
The diagnostic approaches now in use and the problems
inherent in applying them to the correctional caseload.
Skills in:
Identifying the social as well as psychological strains
effective in the causation of offending behaviour.
Modifying the offender’s environment, so that strains
toward conformity are substituted by those, which press
toward criminal deviance.
Attitudes of:
Acceptance of delinquent and criminal deviants
withoutcondoning anti-social behaviour Scientific
interest in the contributions of social structure to
causation and treatment as well as in psychological
determinants.
Readiness to work experimentally and without undue
discouragement in a field where present knowledge is
limited, prognosis is uncertain, and failures frequent.
These knowledge, skills and attitudes help the
professional social worker to deal more effectively with
the offender, i.e., for the reformation and rehabilitation
of the offender.

Next is the specific functions of the correctional social
worker. He helps to strengthen motivation of delinquents
and criminals. Through talking with them
sympathetically and understandingly, the social worker
aids them. The correctional social worker allows the
offenders to ventilate their feelings. Most offenders
need to share with someone, in confidence, their inner
feelings, their fear and frustrations, as well as their
hopes and aspirations. In correctional settings, the
social worker provides a safe emotional climate in which
offenders can express and verbalize them.
The social worker provides needed information to
offenders in correctional settings. By giving information,
the probation and parole officer can help offenders to
make decisions. The probation officer does not make
decisions for the probationers, but he helps them to
consider rationally, their problems and the alternatives
which they have.
By defining situations and problems, the social worker
helps the offender. He assists the offender not only in
thinking about a problem, but also in feeling about the
situation. The social worker also assists the offender
in modifying his environment. With his knowledge of
community resources, the social worker is able to help
the offender and his family to tap different kinds of
financial and social resources to meet their needs.
Reorganising behaviour patterns of the offender is an
important function of the correctional social worker.
This also includes helps for sexual deviants, chronic
alcoholics and drug addicts and those who have deep
personality problems.
Facilitating referral is another important function of
the correctional social worker. Referral may be made
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physician, lawyer or other professionals, who may help
the offender with a particular problem. The social
worker’s comprehensive knowledge of the community
resources is used to advantage in making referrals.
Social Casework in Correctional Settings
In correctional settings, improvement of social
functioning is achieved by means of mobilizing the
capacities within the offender. The mobilization of inner
capacities and environmental resources is accomplished
primarily through the relationship between the
caseworker and the client. The relationship, which is
established during the period of treatment process,
enables the client to work towards a constructive
solution of his problems.
Social casework is an art in which knowledge of the
science of human relations and skill in relationship
are used to mobilize capacities in the individual and
resources in the community, appropriate for better
adjustment between the client and all or any part of
his total environments. So, casework is the process of
dealing with the individual case. It is concerned with
the individual in relation to his social environment and
aims at his successful adjustment.
A professional casework relationship is one that enables
the client to express facts, attitudes and feelings with
a guarranty that the worker’s response will be geared
to the client’s need, not to the worker’s need. The
caseworker is responsible for facilitating
communication, both verbal and non-verbal, without
which no relationship can be established and developed.
This relationship is connected with the treatment
process.

The two types of casework treatment currently used in
correctional settings are the supportive treatment
method and curative treatment. The former requires
the use of a number of techniques that help the client
to improve his functioning within the framework of his
established ego mechanisms of defence. The latter
requires the use of different techniques that help the
client to improve his functioning through modification
of selected ego mechanisms of defence. The outward
form of the client’s behaviour and selected internal
process are modified.
In correctional institutions, caseworker keeps the
relationship a realistic one, using the possible elements
in the relationship to motivate and influence the client
towards a maximal solution of his problems. Thus, in
the correctional settings, the caseworker’s activity in
respect to motivation is directed towards reducing the
strength of factors inhibiting the client’s use of help,
towards identifying and utilizing the constructive
motivating forces that the client has already developed.
This is for the purpose of adaptation and mastery and
towards offering opportunities that may induce
constructive motivation, where it does not exist.
In correctional settings, the social caseworker attempts
to establish a relationship which, over a period of time,
frees the individual to express his feelings, muster his
ego strength, change his anti-social values and become
a law-abiding citizen. Thus, relationship is the core of
social caseworker’s contribution, along with the use of
community resources. It means that the caseworker
accepts the client, understands and respects him. The
client gradually develops feelings towards the
caseworker, and shares his ideas, emotions, and
worries. Then, through a bond of warmth and support,
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judgemental, sensitive to the needs of the offender,
and conveys a feeling of respect for the integrity and
individuality of the offender, regardless of his criminal
conduct.
The helping process depends upon a relationship
between worker and client within which the client may,
if he is able and willing, be encouraged to ask, receive,
and use help in clarifying his own wants and purposes,
in relation to the resources available to him and in
mustering his own powers to achieve his chosen ends.
In many instances, the offender is likely to express his
needs about concrete situations, such as the way he
left things at home, or the job he left behind, or some
details of institutional life, such as change of work
assignments, or living quarters, or a suspected
discrimination against him in privileges. The basis of
the client’s complaints may be real and may furnish a
specific issue upon which the caseworker and the
inmate of a correctional institution can work together.
But casework with offenders is not primarily concerned
with the individual offender as a separate entity apart
from his surroundings. Nor is casework primarily
concerned with the social environment and its
improvement. Casework, however, has a general
interest in both the offender and the environment, since
its goal is to find a means of adjustment and an
equilibrium between the two. For the successful
accomplishment of this task, the caseworker must
understand the offender, his capacities and
abnormalities and he must know the social situation,
its resources and dangers. Furthermore, his knowledge
must be broad enough to go beyond the offender involved
and embrace the scientific principles, which lie at the
back of personality development, behaviour, and the
social forces, which govern family and community.

There are five basic assumptions underlying casework,
which are applicable in helping the offender:
1) Every individual must be seen as a person of dignity
and worth.
2) Behaviour, whether acceptable or unacceptable to
the community, expresses a need of the individual.
3) An individual can and will change his behaviour if
the right help is given at the right time and in the
right amount.
4) If the offer of help is given before the problem
becomes seriously aggravated, the response is likely
to be better.
5) The family is the most influential force in the
development of personality in the crucial early
years. The emphasis in casework varies from case
to case, since the cause of maladjustment may lie
primarily with the individual, or with the
environment, or in some combination of these
personal and social factors. The casework may be
directed at strengthening the personality, in order
to increase the capacity and understand the
offender. This is true, for instance, in the case of
those who suffer from nervous and emotional
disorders, from frustrations and conflicts, which
prevent successful adjustment in any situation. In
other cases, the emphasis may be directed at the
change or enrichment of the environment, to
eliminate harmful conditions and make use of
helpful resources. This is true, for example, in the
case of children who live under conditions in
delinquency area, where adjustment is difficult for
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In attaining both immediate and ultimate goals, three
fundamental processes are seen interplaying at every
point, the use of the resources, assisting the offender
to understand his needs and possibilities; and helping
him to develop the ability to work out his own social
programme through the use of available resources.
Therefore, casework is a joint action in which both the
caseworker and the offender take part and in which,
they develop a definite relationship.
In correctional settings, casework has been in use over
a considerable period of time, especially in relation to
probation. In other correctional settings, especially in
institutions, not only is casework a later development,
but it is very difficult to apply. The prison or Borstal
School programme is one of mass treatment and often
casework is neglected.
Social Group Work in Correctional Settings
Group work with delinquents and criminals is often seen
as a powerful technique for modifying behaviour and
attitudes. Although demanding and sometimes complex,
group work is based on some rather simple and well
supported observations about how people grow and
interact. Social group work is a method of rendering
service to persons, through providing experience in
groups. Development of the person towards his
individual potential, improvement of relationship and
social functioning competencies, and social action are
recognized as purposes of social group work. The worker
functions within a framework of ethical and social
values. In social group work, the worker helps members
and group to use their abilities and strengths. The
worker uses himself in different ways in relation to
specific objectives. The group member and the group

are inextricably interrelated and the condition of each
is bound to affect the other.
There can be three main reasons for the use of the
group in treatment of the delinquent and the criminal:
First, the dynamics of the offender himself.
Second, the specific correctional setting in which
he finds himself.
Thirdly, the specific purpose for which society has
put him into the correctional setting.
There is a phenomenon appearing in the delinquent,
which shows that one of his outstanding identification
as well as support is the group. This phenomenon is
certainly closely related to the age of most of the
delinquents, since all adolescents seek their status far
more in the group of contemporaries through closeness
with adults. The use of the group work method becomes,
therefore, essential because the delinquents can often
not be reached otherwise. He must be approached in
his own group with the security of the surrounding other
delinquents. The purpose and goals of the group related
to this understanding are many:
1) The strengthening of the security of the offender
in the framework of the group, so that he does not
feel alone and helpless, but also moves towards not
being wholly dependent on it.
2) The strengthening of the offender’s independence
by helping him to actually participate in group
discussions, not to submit to a gang leader or a
powerful sub-group.
3) The introduction of an adult who represents the
values of a society they often reject, but who,
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security and love. The delinquent can meet this
adult in a group, while still feeling the support of
his contemporaries and relating in different degrees
of intensity. It also provides an opportunity of gaining
satisfaction in the need for adventure and
experimentation in various ways that are accepted
by the society.
4) An opportunity to gain inner resilience and status
within the group through accomplishment in
activities accepted by the society.
In group work in correctional settings, the programme
media should be varied. The group members must allow
for outlet of hostility, and not reduce the group to
unacceptable behaviour. Programme should allow, at
times, for the individual need of withdrawal by letting
a group member do something for himself without feeling
guilty that he does not participate, but help him feel
accepted by presence in the group.
Besides the help with outlet of feelings, a programme
should include the opportunity for real achievement. It
should strike a balance between more individual and
more cooperative projects, according to the readiness
of the group members. It must also allow for pure
enjoyment and aesthetic satisfaction. In these days,
the use of the group as a tool in correctional work has
been recognized more and more. The guided group
interaction technique can serve as a sort of spear-head
around which many activities, can be organised in an
effort to get at the inner life of the person.
Social Workers in Police Departments
and Courts
In certain European countries, United States of America
and in Japan, professional Social Workers work with
the Police, especially in their youth bureaus. Social

workers help police to understand properly the
delinquents whom they apprehend. They also help the
police to develop a rehabilitative attitude rather than a
punitive one.
Social workers play a major role with the police in trying
to prevent delinquency and crime. Professional social
workers generally believe in preventive aspect of
delinquency and crime. The rationale behind this is
that if more time and talent can be put into preventing
anti-social behaviour in the first place, the society, as
well as individuals and families will be much better off.
With the help of the social worker, police work with
delinquents in recreational activities and clubs to
prevent delinquency and crime.
In India, professional social workers are attached to
juvenile courts, performing the role of probation officers.
They have various functions in the juvenile court.
Conducting investigations to find out various causes
and facts in a violation of law is an important function.
A social worker can generally be objective and can
secure a picture of the total situation that is helpful to
the court.
In juvenile courts, the magistrate makes decisions based
on the report submitted by the probation officer.
Investigations are usually related to the delinquents,
but most often, involve the family close relatives and
other key persons in the lives of the accused.
Another important function of the social worker is to
represent the court after the magistrate has made the
decision. Probation involves regular interviews and
contacts between the probation officer, who is the social
worker, and the offender. The social worker tries to
use his knowledge and skills to help bring about desired
changes and modifications in the behaviour of the
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Conclusion
Juvenile delinquency and crime are major problems of
modern society. Social work has an important role to
play in the control correction and prevention of
delinquency and crime. Social work attempts to help
the individual, his family and the community to face
and solve delinquency and crime through the utilization
of individual, family and community resources.
Casework, group work, and community organisation are
the basic processes utilized by the social worker in
correctional settings. The correctional social worker is
given authority in order to change the way offenders
(clients) express values in action. All social workers
work with offenders in terms of values. More than any
other function, the correctional social worker’s task is
defined in terms of changing values of the delinquent
or criminal, so that they become suitable in action with
the values of the society.
The social worker helps, particularly the police
departments, courts, probation, institutions, parole and
prevention. Therefore, professional social work in
correctional settings is a comprehensive constructive
social attitude, therapeutic in some instances,
restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total
social impact.
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