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Bridging the gap: A collaborative model for forensic social work dissemination and translation
The British Journal of Social Work, Vol.55(4), pp.1907-1927
2025
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Abstract
Forensic social workers play an integral role in upholding human rights and social justice in criminal and juvenile legal settings, including in policing, courts, corrections, forensic mental health, and treatment facilities. These practitioners have organizational and ethical responsibilities to provide research-based and empirically informed interventions. However, research has shown a disconnect between research and practice in social work, including in the forensic social work arena. This article explores dissemination and translation strategies as mechanisms to bridge the research–practice gap. Forensic social workers should support the development of knowledge through scientific research, but they should also be equipped to disseminate and translate research that will address complex needs seen in the criminal legal system and with system-involved communities at micro, meso, and macro levels. The proposed collaborative model positions dissemination and translation as strategies to uphold evidence-informed practice, with important implications for practice, education, and community contexts, including the geographic- and identity-based communities most involved in and affected by criminal and juvenile legal practices.
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- Title
- Bridging the gap: A collaborative model for forensic social work dissemination and translation
- Authors
- Dimitra Lattas (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyJacoba Rock - Boise State University
- Publication details
- The British Journal of Social Work, Vol.55(4), pp.1907-1927
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1093/bjsw/bcaf012
- ISSN
- 1468-263X; 0045-3102
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact reprints@oup.com for reprints and translation rights for reprints. All other permissions can be obtained through our RightsLink service via the Permissions link on the article page on our site—for further information please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991110646202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web Of Science research areas
- Social Work
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