Background
Roberts, Albert Roy was born on May 22, 1944 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Harry and Evelyn (Schwartz) Roberts.
( Over the past two decades, violent crime has become one...)
Over the past two decades, violent crime has become one of the most serious domestic problems in the United States. Approximately 13 million people (nearly 5% of the U.S. population) are victims of crime every year, and of that, approximately one and a half million are victims of violent crime. Ensuring quality of life for victims of crime is therefore a major challenge facing policy makers and mental health providers. Helping Victims of Violent Crime grounds victim assistance treatments in a victim-centered and strengths perspective. The book explores victim assistance through systems theory: the holistic notion of examining the client in his/her environment and a key theoretical underpinning of social work practice. The basic assumption of systems theoryis homeostasis. A crime event causes a change in homeostasis and often results in disequilibrium. The victim's focus at this point is to regain equilibrium. Under the systems metatheory, coping, crisis and attribution theories provide a good framework for victim-centered intervention. Stress and coping theories posit that three factors determine the state of balance: perception of the event, available situational support, and coping mechanisms. Crisis theory offers a framework to understand a victim's response to a crime. The basic assumption of crisis theory asserts that when a crisis occurs, people respond with a fairly predictable physical and emotional pattern. The intensity and manifestation of this pattern may vary from individual to individual. Finally, attribution theory asserts that individuals make cognitive appraisals of a stressful situation in both positive and negative ways. These appraisals are based on the individual's assertion that they can understand, predict, and control circumstances and result in the victim's assignment of responsibility for solving or helping with problems that have arisen from the crime event. In summary, these four theories can delineate a definitive model for approach to the victimization process. It is from this theoretical framework that Treating Victims of Violent Crime offers assessments and interventions with a fuller understanding of the victimization recovery process. The book includes analysis of victims of family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, partner violence) as well as stranger violence (sexual assault, homicide, and terrorism).
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With a foreword by Barbara W. White, PhD, University of Texas at Austin The definitive work on battered women is now in a timely third edition. Considered the complete, in-depth guide to effective interventions for this pervasive social disease, Battered Women and Their Families has been updated to include new case studies, cultural perspectives, and assessment protocols. In an area of counseling that cannot receive enough attention, Dr. Robert's work stands out as an essential treatment tool for all clinical social workers, nurses, physicians, and graduate students who work with battered women on a daily basis. New chapters on same-sex violence, working with children in shelters, immigrant women affected by domestic violence, and elder mistreatment round out this unbiased, multicultural look at treatment programs for battered women.
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(In CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND BRIEF TREATMENT, Roberts builds ...)
In CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND BRIEF TREATMENT, Roberts builds an outstanding model of intervention, drawing upon the theoretical bodies that have aided in the emergence of various strategies of short-term intervention. Roberts' book places emphasis on crisis work, with numerous highly experienced practitioners applying his model to a range of situations, all of which are associated with high stress and acute crisis.
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(This collection of readings is a one-of-a-kind—examining ...)
This collection of readings is a one-of-a-kind—examining current policies, practices and issues impacting the field of criminal justice today. Leaving no stone unturned, contributing authors (all leaders in the field) explore a wide range of topics such as gangs, gender and race, war on drugs, terrorism, crime victims, correctional issues and computer-based technologies. Linking the past, present, and future of criminal justice, the authors discuss the issues currently impacting the system, the challenges that lie ahead, and their visions for how these issues will be handled in the next century.
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Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitors, social workers, criminal justice administrators, government officials and legislators, Helping Crime Victims offers the reader practical ideas and realistic strategies in the form of procedural guides and workable programme components and services that seem effective in meeting the needs of crime victims.
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Roberts, Albert Roy was born on May 22, 1944 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Harry and Evelyn (Schwartz) Roberts.
Bachelor in Sociology, Long Island University, 1966. Master of Arts in Sociology, Long Island University, 1967. Doctor Social Welfare, University Maryland, Baltimore, 1978.
Lecturer Rider College, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 1970-1971. Assistant professor, chairman Coppin State College, Baltimore, 1971-1974. Project director American Correctional Association, College Park, Maryland, 1975-1976.
Assistant professor New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York, 1976-1978, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1978-1979. Associate professor University New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut, 1979-1981, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, 1981-1983. Associate professor, chairman Indiana University School Social Work, Indianapolis, 1984-1989.
Professor social work, program director Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1989. Manuscript reviewer Dorsey Press, Chicago, 1984-1988, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Washington, 1986-1995, Longman Publications, White Plains, New York, 1987-1992. Founding social work series editor Springer Public Company, New York City, since 1980.
(Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitor...)
(Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitor...)
(In CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND BRIEF TREATMENT, Roberts builds ...)
(Because millions of adolescents become involved in crimin...)
(This collection of readings is a one-of-a-kind—examining ...)
( Over the past two decades, violent crime has become one...)
(Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and ...)
( With a foreword by Barbara W. White, PhD, University of...)
(Book by Roberts, Albert R.)
Board directors Indiana chapter National Committee for Prevention Child Abuse, Indianapolis, 1986-1989. Member state advisory board for probation New Jersey Supreme Court, Trenton, since 1991. Member New Jersey Governor's Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission, 1991-1995.
Fellow American Orthopsychiat. Association; member National Association of Social Workers, Academy Criminal Justice Sciences (life), American Society Criminology, National Council Juvenile and Family Court Judges (associate), Alpha Delta Museum.
Married Beverly Jean Schenkman, July 5, 1971. 1 child, Herbert.