SWK 3130SW and Criminal Justice Issues

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Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010 or ENG 1009; ENG 1020 or ENG 1021 with a C- or better This course is designed to help prepare social workers for employment in criminal and juvenile justice settings with a focus on micro, mezzo and macro practice. The course provides students with understanding, awareness, and skills to engage as leaders in multi-disciplinary social work practice within both the criminal and juvenile justice systems advancing social, economic, and environmental justice. Students will be exposed to the policies affecting the larger issues of criminal justice reform, court procedure and process for both defendants and victims, as well as the various treatment and rehabilitation methods used by the system to address victim and offender interventions and treatments.