Empowerment: The Intervention Of Social Work To The Community Correction Of The Juvenile Criminal

With the development of the socialization of criminal execution in the world, community-based correction has become a major manner for criminal punishment in developed countries, Hong Kong and Taiwan in China. Comply with this tendency, our country has now had 18 province and city,autonomous region have developed community-based correction. As a new justice social work field, the community-based correction is still at the initial stage in China, so there isn't a developed mode not only in practice but in theory. Some questions are caused during the practice, among them the most outstanding one is the dispowerment of the recourses and rights of the juvenile offenders. And the dispowerment has become the obstacle of its movement.So this paper put forward the development way definitely about the community-based correction , by learning the experience of western countries such as America, England. That is using the principles and methods of social work to bring freshment to the community-based correction at the moment. The writer will make use of the social work theory——"empowerment"to inquiry into this problem, with the guidance of sociology, law etc, discussing on the question"the involvement of social work to the community correction of the juvenile criminal", on the basis of the investigation of some experimental projects in Shanghai, and Jiangsu, using the methods of literature law and empirical investigation.This paper break the traditional view of rectification on the deficiency of community-based correction. It proposes a series of scientific progressive policies and measures. That is on the foundation of localization transforms to social work's ideas and methods, the social workers should take up from the criminals'cognitive dissonance, emotional disorder and interpersonal relationship shortage, using of local social and cultural resources and professional methods, such as case work, group work and community work to the resolve of the problem of"dispowerment"from external environment to resume criminals'social function.