FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK
Plays a formidable role in providing risk assessments, expert testimony, mental
health care, substance abuse treatment, and other timely best practices to both
victims and offenders.
Utilize evidence-based practices in child maltreatment and domestic violence
assessment and treatment.
Provide assessment and treatment of juvenile offenders.
Provide mental health, drug and alcohol, medical, and aftercare treatment for
adult offenders.
Get involved in trauma survivor assistance, victim-offender mediation and
batterers’ intervention programs.
Are skilled in restorative justice, giving expert testimony in child welfare and
woman battering cases, as well as social worker mitigation testimony in death
penalty cases.
Deal with the critical issues of punishment versus rehabilitation, deterrence, and
determination of whether individual offenders are capable of change.
Are change agents, legislative advocates, policymakers and program
administrators for both victims and offenders.