Social Work with Offenders

Major: Social work
Code of subject: 6.231.01.E.047
Credits: 6.00
Department: Sociology and Social Work
Lecturer: Proskura Volodymyr Vyacheslavovych, PhD in Sociology, Associate professor
Semester: 6 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Мета вивчення дисципліни: to gain knowledge about approaches to providing social support services for offenders in Ukraine.
Завдання: know the basic theory, approaches and values when dealing with offenders; know the basics of the legislation of Ukraine to assist the released; know about the institutions and organizations of Ukraine, which put features on social patronage of the released; be able to identify the main obstacles for social adaptation in a particular case; be able to apply the laws knowledge while working with social adaptation of the released; be able to identify institutions that can provide a broad number of social services.
Learning outcomes: 1.4. Provide social adaptation and rehabilitation services for clients serving prison terms or sentenced to alternative types of punishments;
Required prior and related subjects: Human behavior and the social environment in social work; Theory and methods of social work; Mediation and conflict resolution.
Summary of the subject: The history of the penitentiary and post- penitentiary exposure to a convict. Ex-inmates as a social group. Features of social adaptation of persons released from prison. Legal regulation of the process of social adaptation of the released. Institutional support of the ex-inmates. Social work as a tool to assist ex-inmates. Directions and stages of work with convicts and released. Working with different groups released.
Опис: Concept of social work with offenders The history of the development of punishments and their impact on the personality of the offender Offenders as a social group Peculiarities of social adaptation of persons released from prisons Probation as a system of supervisory and social-educational measures for those convicted of types of criminal punishments not related to deprivation of liberty
Assessment methods and criteria: written reports on laboratory works, oral questioning (40%) final control (control measure - exam): written and oral form (60%)
Критерії оцінювання результатів навчання: depends on the completeness of the opened question or task
Порядок та критерії виставляння балів та оцінок: 100–88 points – (“excellent”) is awarded for a high level of knowledge (some inaccuracies are allowed) of the educational material of the component contained in the main and additional recommended literary sources, the ability to analyze the phenomena being studied in their interrelationship and development, clearly, succinctly, logically, consistently answer the questions, the ability to apply theoretical provisions when solving practical problems; 87–71 points – (“good”) is awarded for a generally correct understanding of the educational material of the component, including calculations, reasoned answers to the questions, which, however, contain certain (insignificant) shortcomings,
Recommended books: Stremetska V.O. Organization of post-penitentiary patronage in the 19th and early 20th centuries. / V.O. Stremetska // Scientific Works – History – 2010. – Issue #116. - Volume No. 129. - P.60-66. Basics of the professional activity of the staff of the body Probation: Training manual for personnel of the probation authority / edited by James Sedham, Michael Octigan// Kyiv - 2017. - p. 242. URL: https://i-rc.org.ua/files/posibnyk-probaciy.pdf 5. Romanov M.V. The content of the concept of security in the definition goals of probation // Digitization and security: materials of the international conference // edited. Prof. A. p. Hetman and prof. B. M. Golovkina, Kharkiv, National law University named after Yaroslav the Wise, November 19, 2020 - Kharkiv: Pravo, 2020. - 410 p.
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