Latin American Social Work in the Justice System

Part I Introduction.- Chapter 1 Latin American Social Work Practice in the Justice System.- Part II Forensic and Socio-Legal Social Work in Latin America.- Chapter 2 Family Courts in Chile and the Evolution of Socio-Legal Social Work.- Chapter 3 The Role of Work Product Review and Consultant in Forensic Social Work.- Chapter 4 Forensic Social Work: The construction of possible ways of the criminal intervention.- Chapter 5 Socio-Legal Social Work in the Field of Criminal Defense.- Part III Forensic and Socio-Legal Social Work with Family and Community.- Chapter 6 Family and Community Life: Contributions of Social Work to the Debate in Family Court.- Chapter 7 Support to victims in high-conflict scenarios: An approach from the socio-legal, the pedagogical, and the care perspectives.- Part IV Forensic and Socio-Legal Social Work with Youth and Women.- Chapter 8 The Assessment of Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse Allegations from a Social Work Perspective.- Chapter 9 Decision-Making Related to Termination of Parental Rights: A Case Study of Child Protection in Chile.- Chapter 10 Fundamentals and Professional Practices in Uruguay's Juvenile Justice System.- Chapter 11 Differences and similarities of the Juvenile Criminal Law: A comparison between Chile and Mexico.- Chapter 12 Social Vulnerability and Some Considerations Regarding Crime Committed by Minors in Costa Rica.- Chapter 13 Experiences of women with disabilities in the Mexican Criminal Justice System: A gender-based analysis.

Claudia Reyes-Quilodrán, Social Work, MA, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Social Work School at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She received her PhD from Washington State University in 2009. Her areas of specialization include political psychology, criminal justice and Latin American studies. Her most recent research projects include juvenile delinquency and gender; prison violence; professional judgment in the intervention with vulnerable families; engagement in the social work interventions; and comparatives studies in juvenile restorative justice. She has a long experience working with victims affected by severe human rights violations during the Chilean military regimen, and she has worked in the National Child Social Service and the state agencies to prevent crime and violence in Chile. She has developed her career in the socio-legal field.



Rajendra Baikady, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work,Central University of Kerala (CUK), India and a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Social Work and Community Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to joining CUK, he was a Special Post-Doctoral Fellow and Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2020-2022). He completed his first Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2019-2020) and was awarded the Golda Meir Fellowship by Lady Davis Trust at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also a recipient of the Taiwan Government's Short Term Research Award (2018) for academic research at National Chengchi University, Taiwan and the Confucius Institute Understanding China Fellowship by the Government of China (2018-2019) for academic research at Shandong University, China. Dr. Baikady is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Discover Global Society, an international journal (Springer).