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This book examines the intersection of legal and social work in India and beyond. It explores the complex reality of laws related to socially disadvantaged groups and how social workers and practitioners navigate it at the ground level.
List of contents
PART I: LAW: IT'S GENESIS, CONCEPT, AND INDIAN CONSTITUTION
1 Meaning, Objectives, Source, and Scope of Social Legislation: Its Relation with Social Work
2 Social Legislation in a Welfare State and the Indian Constitution
3 Law as an Instrument of Social Change: How It Works?
PART II: LAW FOR VULNERABLE AND MARGINALIZED GROUPS
4 Legal Provisions for Women and Social Work
5 Legal Provisions for Children and Social Work
6 Legal Provisions for Persons with Disability and Social Work
7 Legal Provisions for Elderly and Social Work
8 SCs, STs, and Special Groups and Social Work: Legal Perspective
PART III: LEGAL PROTECTION AND CORRECTIVE MEASURES
9 Institutions and Legal Protection
10 Cyber Crime and Law
PART IV: SOCIAL ACTIVISM, ADVOCACY, AND STAKEHOLDERS' ROLE
11 Social Advocacy and Activism; Concept and Initiatives
12 Models of Crime Prevention and Remedies and Role of Stakeholders
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Sanjoy Roy, advocating for 'Indigenous Social Work in India', is working as Professor and Head, Department of Social Work, University of Delhi. Previously taught in different Universities like Visva Bharati, IGNOU, Assam University, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur.
His areas of interests are social legislation and social work, social justice and human rights, and social work practice.
Prof. Roy has been invited and chaired sessions at conferences at London School of Economics (LSE), Australia, Germany, Vietnam, Thailand, Panama, etc.
He has published more than 85 articles/research papers in different research journals/books and 14 books in National and International publication like Sage, Routledge, Rawat, etc.
