Probationers: A Study of Casework Movement: In Thirty-One Boys Referred From Children’s Court, Jamaica, New York to Catholic Charities of Brooklyn Queens County Family Division, 1957–1960
Abstract
This study is primarily concerned with evaluating casework movement in probationers referred from Children’s Court to a family service agency. By so doing, we seek to ascertain how successful casework has been with probationers and determine ways to improve our service.Because of our interest in casework movement with delinquents, we find it necessary to consider characteristics of the probationers, which this writer contends sets them apart from other clients treated in the family service setting. Some caseworkers might feel it is erroneous to consider probationers as a group any different from other clients exhibiting emotional problems. It does appear to us that the probationer does present common problems found more particularly in those adjudicated delinquent. The most obvious characteristic which sets them apart from most other clients is that they have broken a law of the State and have been placed on probation in a court setting. Such an experience can have profound repercussions which may not have been experienced by other clients. A second characteristic which this investigator believes representative of probationers is that most of these clients would not have come to a family service agency had they not been referred by an authoritarian agency. Such referrals could present particular problems regarding resistance, guilt reaction and other emotional dynamics.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Law|Individual & family studies|Sociology
Recommended Citation
Kenworthy, Herbert Francis, "Probationers: A Study of Casework Movement: In Thirty-One Boys Referred From Children’s Court, Jamaica, New York to Catholic Charities of Brooklyn Queens County Family Division, 1957–1960" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050474.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050474
