Spectral Casework

Social Casework and Administration

This is an important and much needed book for the general public which will also help to clarify the ideas of the professional worker. It describes the administrative part in social casework, illustrating from a variety of real situations. It is a commonplace that social workers tend to ignore the administrative process or to feel that 'administra-tion' impedes the treatment part of their work,...

Social Casework in Great Britain

DNA transfer: review and implications for casework.

DNA-bearing cellular material can come to be present on a surface by either direct or indirect transfer. Direct transfer includes contact, but also includes activities within the vicinity of an item that may result in the transfer of DNA directly from an individual without any contact, such as speaking, coughing, and sneezing. Indirect transfer of DNA is when DNA from an individual comes to be ...

On decision making in forensic casework

In forensic applications of speaker recognition it is necessary to be able to specify a confidence level for a decision that two sets of recordings have been produced by the same speaker (or by different speakers). Forensic phoneticians are sometimes criticized because they find it impossible to provide ‘hard’ estimates of the confidence level of their expert opinions. This paper investigates t...

The Work of a Family Casework Agency

say "We know what you don't do?but what do you do?" It is a fair question, for in recent years family caseworkers have been provokingly reticent about their activities and their place among the social services of the Welfare State. Is there, in fact, any role for a family casework agency, or are caseworkers making a place for themselves rather than admitting that they are redundant? That some o...