SWK 310: Social Welfare & Policy: Criminal Justice

Incarceration

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Capital Punishment
• Prisoner's Rights
• Southern Poverty Law Center - Prison Reform
• Critical Resistance
• Black Lives Matter
• Center for Justice - Columbia University
• Critical Essays on Prison Reform
• Propublica Criminal Justics - investigative journalism organization
• McLeod, B. A., & Gottlieb, A. (2018). Examining the relationship between incarceration and child support arrears among low-income fathers. Children and Youth Services Review, 94, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.09.022

Voting Rights

Sentencing Reforms

War on Drugs

• A Social Work Perspective on Drug Policy Reform
• The Human Toll of Georgia’s Abusive Drug Policies

Decriminalization

• Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

Opiod Crisis

Privatization of Prisons

Role of Prison Industrial Complex