2: Use critical-thinking skills to integrate multiple sources of knowledge, data

2: Use critical-thinking skills to integrate multiple sources of knowledge, data, and research to analyze social welfare policies.
3: Apply policy practice skills, in concert with clients and colleagues, to advance social policies which support and enhance social, economic and environmental justice.
4: Demonstrate the ability to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies which advance social well-being.
5: Analyze how individual differences and diversity impact the perception and analysis of social welfare policies.
According to the Barusch (2018) text, our criminal justice system is grounded in three concepts – revenge, rehabilitation and deterrence, but rehabilitation is the least explored. Write a 2-3 page paper that describes how a social worker engaged in policy practice could positively impact our criminal justice system by heightening its focus on rehabilitation. Incorporate peer-reviewed academically sound resources and literature to substantiate your ideas.
Use Microsoft Word (a part of Microsoft Office) MS Word document because it will end in “.docx”
Please no less than two pages and no greater than three pages excluding title page and reference pages
1. knowledge and use of concepts of the origins of the criminal justice system and how it affects current policy.
Integration of historical and contemporary knowledge of the population
2. knowledge and use of concepts disparities that exist in the criminal justice system based on race and class.
Integration of social work values
3. Apply social work values to the problem and/or population and how they may differ from policymakers or other stakeholders.
Integration of scholarly references
4. knowledge and use of concepts learned from of relevant academic and professional source materials. Only scholarly sources, i.e., peer-reviewed publications, government reports, should be used in this paper.