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Court sentencing in Botswana : a role for probation?
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Creator
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Love, Christine
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Date
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1992
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Journal of Social Development in Africa
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Concern has been expressed in Botswana about the increasing numbers of adult offenders sent to prison. Yet few alternatives to custody exist. Research was conducted to enquire whether pre-sentence reports about defendants, prepared by social workers, would be useful and whetherprobation orders should be introduced to widen the range of sentencing options available. There was found to be support, in principle, for these measures.
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Africa at the crossroads : major challenges for social work education and practice towards the year 2000
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Mupedziswa, Rodreck
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Date
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1992
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Collection
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Journal of Social Development in Africa
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The paper focuses on social work education and practice into the next millennium with particular reference to Africa. It argues that as the year 2000 draws near, the most insurmountable challenges for social work education and practice in Africa are likely to emanate from issues that traditionally have not been regarded as falling within the domain of the social work profession. Issues falling in this category are identified as including the refugee problem, the AIDS issue, unemployment, the...
Show moreThe paper focuses on social work education and practice into the next millennium with particular reference to Africa. It argues that as the year 2000 draws near, the most insurmountable challenges for social work education and practice in Africa are likely to emanate from issues that traditionally have not been regarded as falling within the domain of the social work profession. Issues falling in this category are identified as including the refugee problem, the AIDS issue, unemployment, the ecology and structural adjustment programmes. Iturges the social work profession to become aggressive and more adventurous if it is to be taken seriously and indeed as it hopes to sufficiently address the problems in a meaningful way. Social work training therefore must be made more appropriate if it is to sufficiently equip practitioners with the relevant skills and knowledge that will enable diem to meaningfully tackle these and other social challenges.
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New books from Sweden - Bethany Books
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Date
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1992
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Collection
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Journal of Social Development in Africa
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Advertisement about news books from Swedish publisher Bethany Books in Stockholm
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Aids in Uganda : initial social work responses
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Creator
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Ankrah, E. M.
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Date
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1992
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Collection
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Journal of Social Development in Africa
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Description
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AIDS, which was first diagnosed in Uganda in 1983, has since reached epidemic proportions, with approximately 1,5 million persons estimated to be infected by 1991. Although the government of Uganda with several collaborating organisations has commenced a comprehensive programme of preventive education and services, patterns of sexual behaviour, unless changed, threaten to facilitate the further spread of HIV. Social work professionals have adopted a broad range of activities in varying...
Show moreAIDS, which was first diagnosed in Uganda in 1983, has since reached epidemic proportions, with approximately 1,5 million persons estimated to be infected by 1991. Although the government of Uganda with several collaborating organisations has commenced a comprehensive programme of preventive education and services, patterns of sexual behaviour, unless changed, threaten to facilitate the further spread of HIV. Social work professionals have adopted a broad range of activities in varying organisations in beginning efforts involved in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS. Furtherinvolvementmay be related to the extentthat the social aspects of the disease are given heightened attention by the policy-makers in Uganda.
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Media/Cultural imperialism and Nigerian women : whose culture, which imperialism?
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Creator
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Owens-Ibie, Nosa
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Date
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1992
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Collection
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Journal of Social Development in Africa
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Through colonialism and the assimilation of foreign values, people in the excolony are now a cultural hybrid. The local elites who occupy the commanding heights in policy/decision making in Nigeria have been at the forefront of the acceptance and transmission of this new cultural product though various channels, an important part of which is the media. Nigerian women are a growing and active part of this elite structure. One important consequence of the merging of the external component of...
Show moreThrough colonialism and the assimilation of foreign values, people in the excolony are now a cultural hybrid. The local elites who occupy the commanding heights in policy/decision making in Nigeria have been at the forefront of the acceptance and transmission of this new cultural product though various channels, an important part of which is the media. Nigerian women are a growing and active part of this elite structure. One important consequence of the merging of the external component of imperialism which is still being fuelled in the neo-colonial setting by the reality of dependency and economic restructuring and the local component of imperialism, is that it is now difficult to continue to see imperialism strictly as an external imposition.
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