Correctional
Social Work
INTRODUCTION
• The criminal justice system all over the world consists of at least four major components,
namely the police, judiciary, prosecution and correctional services (Roy, 2018). Each of these
four components functions as a sub-system in an integrated manner with the other
subsystems to meet the overall objectives of the criminal justice system.
• In other words, correctional services are a specialized function of the criminal justice system.
In general, the criminal justice system is defined as a system comprising government agencies
endowed with legal authority, either under the Constitution or by law or under both, to
enforce law, adjudicate crime, correct criminal conduct and punish those involved in the
violation of law (Ahuja, 2000). Originally, the criminal justice system was an important function
of society and was an instrument of social control. Every society identified some conduct of its
members as socially approved behaviours and others as violative of social norms. It ensured
adherence to the socially approved behaviours or social norms through various institutions
such as family, Emergence and Development of Professional Social Work in Correctional
Settings | 53 school, religious institution and clan panchayat (Abraham, 2019).
Major work area of correctional
settings
• Public intrest litigation
• Bail system
• Prison system
• Legal aid and service
• public intrest litigation
public intrest litigation(PIL)emerged first in the united
states are the 1960s as a part of legal aid movements it aimed at
production rights of the weaker section of the society namely
women children ,persons with disablity,ethic minarity and
economically poor in india
• Bail system
• Bail in any justice system refers to the provisional release of an
accused from judical custudy in a criminal case in which the court is
yet to pronounce its judgement. As the main opbjective of arrested is
to ensure the presents of the accused before the court for delivery of
the justice.there are three types of bail in india
• regular bail
• Interim bail
• Anticipatory bail
• Prison system
• Prison are correction centers for reforming and rehablitating criminals in
india prisons are governed by the prisons act 1894 A prison, also known
as a jail or correctional facility, is a place where people are held in
confinement, usually as a punishment for a crime. Prisons can be local,
state, or federal, and they vary in size and security level. Some prisons
are designed to house low-risk offenders who are serving short
sentences, while others are designed for high-risk offenders who are
serving long sentences or who have a history of violence.
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LEGAL AID AND SERVICE
• Legal aid and service
• Free legal aid is the provision of free legal services in civil
and criminal matters for those poor and marginalized
people who cannot afford the services of a lawyer for the
conduct of a case or a legal proceeding in any Court,
Tribunal or Authority.
• Proffessional obligation of social workers
in correctional settings
• Maintaning the privacy of sensitive information of clients the
social workers shoud not discluse any sensitive or private
information of the client with any one except the professional
experts who are who are involved in the porocess of treatment
of the client in some cases pror conset shoud be sought from
the client when has private information is shared with even
the expects
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