LibGuides: MSW-6105: Week 2 Resources

Lesson 2 Required Resources

Forensic Social Work: Psychosocial and Legal Issues Across Diverse Populations and Settings
Maschi, T., & Leibowitz, G. S. (2017).Forensic social work: Psychosocial and legal issues across diverse populations and settings (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

Read Chapter 8: Employment at the Intersection of the Juvenile Justice System.
- This chapter describes and discusses targeted programs and services for justice-involved youth, providing case examples and discussions of how social workers assist this population, as well as the skills required for effective intervention.
Read Chapter 12: Domestic Violence.
- This chapter presents ways in which forensic social workers respond flexibly, collaboratively, and effectively to situations of domestic violence.

Flipping the Narrative: A Unifying Framework for Juvenile Court-Based Forensic Social Work Practice
Loizeaux Walker, E. J. (2024). Flipping the narrative: A unifying framework for juvenile court-based forensic social work practice.Journal of Forensic Social Work, 8(1).
The proposed framework incorporates the practical implications of Critical Theory, specifically Critical Race Theory, the Theory of African American Offending, and Queer Theory, and relevant practice approaches, such as Social Justice Youth Development and Narrative Therapy, to analyze current youth court practices, propose areas for further evaluation and innovation, and recommend practice enhancements for defense-based forensic social workers.
Forensic Social Work: Why Social Work Education Should Change
Kheibari, A., Walker, R. J., Clark, J., Victor, G., III, & Monahan E. (2021). Forensic social work: Why social work education should change.Journal of Social Work Education, 57(2), 332–341.
This article highlights the importance of educating social workers to mitigation as a primary role among forensic social workers, with a focus on death penalty mitigation with its critical skills and knowledge. This article also addresses important ethical considerations when working as a member of capital defense teams and provides recommendations for social work graduate curricula to tailor content to better prepare students for capital mitigation practice.