Introduction to Social Work: An Advocacy-based Profession
Second Edition
Video and Multimedia
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Video
- For-Profit Prisons
What’s so concerning about the emerging privatization of the prison industry?
- Racial Profiling
Differing views abound about whether the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policy encourages racial profiling.
Audio
- Released From Prison After 22 Years, But Still ‘Locked Up’
The story of Tyrone Hood, released from prison via clemency in 2015 after serving 22 years for a murder he may not have committed at all.
- Dealing with California’s Overcrowded Prisons
With prisoners filling up the state’s prisons, the state is ordered to let thousands of prisoners go free. How do they do it?
Web
- Criminal Justice as Rehabilitation
The rehabilitative services offered by California’s correctional system are detailed here.
- The Reality of Gun Ownership
Does having a gun actually help keep you safe from violent crime?
- The National Gang Center
A group committed to reducing gang-related crime and violence. - Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement organizes against pervasive violence inflicted on black people and communities by law enforcement.