Juvenile Justice Issues (3): Social Work with Young Offenders—Care or Control?
Juvenile Justice Issues (3): Social Work with Young Offenders—Care or Control?
Officers who are trained for social work, or those who claim to adopt the social work approach, are those who carry out the treatments received by young offenders. Non-custodial CBTs are more concerned with employing care. In contrast, custodial treatments that lock up young offenders are focused more on the security and safety of the staff and other inmates. The notion of care in social work refers to providing “support” or anything that may be able to assist the offender in dealing with his personal or social problems. Control, on the other hand, refers to activities such as the different forms of disciplinary measures that are directed towards regulating the behavior of the offender. In this chapter, focus is given to the issue of whether these two different approaches can coexist.
Keywords: care, control, custodial treatments, non-custodial treatments, regulation of behavior, personal problems, social problems
Hong Kong Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
