Related Episodes
inSocialWork® is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and researchers in lifelong learning and to promote research to practice and practice to research. inSocialWork® features conversations with prominent social work professionals, interviews with cutting-edge researchers, and information on emerging trends and best practices in the field of social work.
inSocialWork® is a bi-weekly series. New episodes will be released every two weeks. Please subscribe to receive our podcasts automatically, or come back on a regular basis for new content.
Subscribe:
Subscribe directly using your preferred podcasting tool:
Or, copy and paste this URL:
The following episodes are in one or more categories related to:
Episode 232 - Dr. Elizabeth Allen: Women and Mass Incarceration: Unique Needs and Challenges
Episode 285 - Social Work Practice and Gun Safety in the United States: Can Social Workers prevent gun violence?: Drs. Patricia Logan-Greene & Mickey Sperlich
Interviewer: Adair Finucane
Friday, September 11, 2020, 9:36:23 AM

In this episode, our guests Drs. Patricia Logan-Greene and Mickey Sperlich describe their work exploring social work practice and our ability to decrease gun violence. With calls to "send in the Social Workers rather than the police" filling the national dialogue related to racial disparities in policing, our guests discuss why the Social Work profession might be best suited to prevent gun violence.
- Episode 285 - Social Work Practice and Gun Safety in the United States
Episode 278 - Dr. John Gallagher: It's all about relationships: Drug Courts - what are they and how do they work? (part 2 of 2)
Interviewer: Caitlin Rudin
Monday, January 13, 2020, 8:33:42 AM

In the second of a two-part podcast, our guest Dr. John Gallagher elaborates on the racial disparities his research is revealing related to drug court outcomes. He describes the four main themes he has identified via qualitative research with African-American drug court participants and recommendations for practice based on this work.
- Episode 278 - Dr. John Gallagher
Multipart - Get all parts currently posted
Episode 276 - Dr. John Gallagher: It's all about relationships: Drug Courts - what are they and how do they work? (part 1 of 2)
Interviewer: Caitlin Rudin
Monday, December 02, 2019, 9:04:29 AM

In the first of a two-part podcast, Dr. John Gallagher discusses his teaching, practice and scholarly activity with drug courts and their outcomes. Beginning with an overview of drug courts and how they work, he introduces a conversation related to racial disparities in outcome studies that he will elaborate on in part two of this podcast.
- Episode 276 - Dr. John Gallagher
Multipart - Get all parts currently posted
Episode 212 - Dr. Matthew Epperson and Dr. Carrie Pettus-Davis: Smart Decarceration
Interviewer: Patricia Logan-Greene, PhD
Monday, March 27, 2017, 7:34:11 AM

In this episode, our guests Dr. Matthew Epperson and Dr. Carrie Pettus-Davis discuss their research and efforts to provide an alternative to the mass incarceration movement in the United States. Both are scholars and leaders of the Smart Decarceration Initiative, and they describe their mission and goals. They argue that our current system of mass incarceration should be replaced with effective and sustainable alternatives that protect society as well as assist people who have committed crimes.
- Episode 212 - Dr. Matthew Epperson and Dr. Carrie Pettus-Davis
Episode 211 - Sarah Beck Buchanan, Wright Kaminer, and Dr. Roger Nooe: The Community Law Office: An Integration of Social Work and Criminal Defense
Interviewer: Laura Lewis, PhD
Monday, March 13, 2017, 7:32:43 AM

In the United States, there are more than ten million criminal arrests each year. It is well known that many of those arrested also have a number of personal and environmental issues that not only shape their daily lives but can also be influential in their arrests and affect their defense and sentencing. In this episode, Sarah Beck Buchanan, Wright Kaminer, and Dr. Roger Nooe of the Knox County Public Defender's Office discuss their program, which has social workers working in collaboration with public defense attorneys with the goal of producing better legal outcomes by addressing the psychosocial needs of their clients.
- Episode 211 - Sarah Beck Buchanan, Wright Kaminer, and Dr. Roger Nooe
Episode 205 - Dr. Joseph Richardson and Dr. Christopher St. Vil: Who Shot Ya?: A Novel Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program
Interviewer: Steven Schwartz
Monday, December 05, 2016, 8:13:44 AM

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Richardson and Dr. Christopher St. Vil discuss their use of a longitudinal, ethnographic study of young Black men admitted to the hospital for treatment of violent injury to inform development of a hospital-based violence intervention program. They also report on research that they have conducted to better understand nonfatal use of force by police. From the findings of these two studies, they offer specific recommendations that have implications for programs as well as policy.
- Episode 205 - Dr. Joseph Richardson and Dr. Christopher St. Vil
Episode 192 - Dr. Caroline Long Burry: "No One Asked About My Children": Voices of Incarcerated Mothers
Interviewer: Patricia Logan-Greene, PhD
Monday, May 23, 2016, 9:42:09 AM

A report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that from 1991 to 2007 the number of incarcerated mothers increased by a startling one hundred and thirty-one percent. In this podcast, Dr. Caroline Long Burry discusses a pilot study she conducted with these parents with the hope of better understanding their parenting experiences. Also explored are the mothers' attempts to negotiate the criminal justice system while in their role as parents.
- Episode 192 - Dr. Caroline Long Burry
Episode 167 - Ronjonette Harrison: Innovative Change for Juvenile Offenders Through Legislation and Intervention
Interviewer: Patricia Logan-Greene, PhD
Monday, May 11, 2015, 9:32:02 AM

In the majority of U.S. states, individuals age 16 or 17 who are arrested will have their cases heard in juvenile or family courts. However, in the states of New York and North Carolina, 16 and 17 year olds who are arrested find their cases handled in adult criminal court. In New York State, the "Raise the Age" campaign is an effort to change that state's law and move cases involving 16 and 17 year old offenders out of the adult courts. In this episode, Ms. Ronjonette Harrison explains why raising the age is important and describes an alternative to adult court.
- Episode 167 - Ronjonette Harrison
Episode 138 - Dr. Robert Duran: "Smile Now, Cry Later": Gang Life - An Insider's Journey
Interviewer: Steven Schwartz
Monday, March 03, 2014, 8:54:16 AM

In this episode, Dr. Robert Duran discusses what he has learned in 20 years of being involved in, observing, and researching gangs. His unique perspective lends him multiple lenses to inform and challenge conventional wisdom related to what gangs offer their members, the contexts in which they form, and what holds them together.
- Episode 138 - Dr. Robert Duran
Episode 135 - Chris Veeh: Traumatic Brain Injury and Incarcerated Youths: A Role for Social Work
Interviewer: Charles Syms, LCSW/ACSW
Monday, January 20, 2014, 9:52:51 AM

In this episode, Chris Veeh discusses how early life head trauma can play a role in behavior that leads to incarceration. He also suggests that the number of incarcerated youth with traumatic brain injury (TBI) is significant. Tools to screen and assess for TBI history in adolescents as well as evidence-based interventions that the social work practitioner can employ are identified.
- Episode 135 - Chris Veeh
Episode 134 - Dr. Kelli Canada: The Role of Caseworker-Client Relationships Within Mental Health Courts
Interviewer: Charles Syms, LCSW
Monday, January 06, 2014, 8:07:51 AM

In this episode, Dr. Kelli Canada discusses her research on the perceived relationship between mental health court participants and their caseworkers, and its effect on outcomes.
- Episode 134 - Dr. Kelli Canada
Episode 96 - Dr. Amy Watson and Brian Kelly: Forensic Assertive Community Treatment: Preliminary Outcomes and the Role of Environmental Influences
Interviewer: Patricia Logan-Greene, PhD, MSSW
Monday, May 14, 2012, 9:42:29 AM

In this episode, Dr. Amy Watson and Brian Kelly discuss their research into Forensic Assertive Community Treatment, an adaptation of traditional ACT that attempts to explore the unique challenges faced by previously incarcerated persons with mental illness as they re-enter communities. Dr. Watson and Mr. Kelly interpret their findings and advocate for a broader response beyond focus on this population's mental illness to an appreciation for environmental factors (such as housing) in the population's attempts to avoid recidivism and experience success in the community.
- Episode 96 - Dr. Amy Watson and Brian Kelly
Episode 94 - Dr. Shelly Wiechelt and Dr. Corey Shdaimah: Women's Experiences in Street-Level Prostitution: Implications for Court-Based and Social Service Programs (part 2 of 2)
Interviewer: Margaret Coombes, PhD
Monday, April 16, 2012, 8:25:05 AM

In the second of a two-part podcast, Dr. Shelly Wiechelt and Dr. Corey Shdaimah return to conclude the discussion of their research into women engaging in street-level prostitution in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Episode 94 - Dr. Shelly Wiechelt and Dr. Corey Shdaimah
Multipart - Get all parts currently posted
Episode 92 - Dr. Shelly Wiechelt and Dr. Corey Shdaimah: Women's Experiences in Street-Level Prostitution: Implications for Court-Based and Social Service Programs (part 1 of 2)
Interviewer: Margaret Coombes, PhD
Monday, March 19, 2012, 9:57:35 AM

In part one of a two-part podcast, Drs. Wiechelt and Shdaimah discuss their research of women in prostitution in Baltimore, Maryland. They describe how they were drawn to study the women, explain the importance of debunking popular myths related to this population, and emphasize why trauma-informed services rather than punitive and shaming responses are warranted.
- Episode 92 - Dr. Shelly Wiechelt and Dr. Corey Shdaimah
Multipart - Get all parts currently posted
Episode 71 - Katherine Montgomery: Individual and Relational Factors Associated with Delinquency Among Throwaway Adolescents
Interviewer: Charles Syms, MSW
Monday, May 16, 2011, 9:08:56 AM

In this episode, Katherine Montgomery, MSSW and doctoral student, reports on the findings and implications of her recent study on domain-specific factors that distinguish "throwaway youth" from delinquent youth. Ms. Montgomery also describes how understanding specific individual and relational factors may inform more individualized, evidence-based treatment planning among this unique population of adolescents.
- Episode 71 - Katherine Montgomery
Episode 50 - Dr. Judith Herman: Justice from the Victim's Perspective
Interviewer: Lisa Butler, PhD
Monday, July 12, 2010, 9:48:52 AM

In this episode, trauma expert and author Dr. Judith Herman discusses her initial encounters with oppressed women and how she initially organized her thinking about victims of trauma. Dr. Herman describes what she is currently learning from a sample of trauma survivors about what they are interested in regarding justice, healing, forgiveness, and the role of the community in their healing.
- Episode 50 - Dr. Judith Herman
Episode 1 - Hon. Lisa Bloch Rodwin: Social Workers in the Justice System
Interviewer: Adjoa Robinson, PhD, MSW
Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 8:53:28 PM

This episode features a conversation with domestic violence expert, the Hon. Lisa Bloch Rodwin, Family Court judge for Erie County, New York, discussing the important role of social workers in the justice system.
- Episode 1 - Hon. Lisa Bloch Rodwin
DISCLAIMER: The content shared by the presenter(s) and/or interviewer(s) of each podcast is their own and not necessarily representative of any views, research, or practice from the UB School of Social Work or the inSocialWork® podcast series.
Get all episodes at the series' home page.