Case Study Analysis

The case study analysis requires you to assess key issues in a case study, to articulate intervention options and to decide on an intervention using a social work approach, policy and legal framework.
CASE STUDY 1
Alice is an Aboriginal woman in her 40s, with a number of health issues including diabetes. She has recently been admitted to hospital after a suspected heart attack. She lives in an overcrowded run down house, along with her 4 children (she has 2 sons and 2 daughters) and 2 young grandchildren (aged 18 months and 3 years). She is caring for her grandchildren because her 19 year old daughter, Jill, the mother of the children, developed a heroin addiction following experiencing serious sexual assaults and abuse in her childhood. Jill is currently working as a sex worker, so she works most of the night and she spends most of the day sleeping. Alice has not seen her ex husband for a number of years due to his violence. He is interstate somewhere. The father of Jill’s children died of a drug overdose but he was also reportedly violent towards her as well. One of Alice’s sons is a convicted drug dealer and is currently in jail. Alice’s oldest son Jim is working in a government job and helps Alice financially because she is not receiving adequate financial support to care for the children from Centrelink (her daughter Jill receives this payment and Alice rarely sees any of it). Recently, Alice did not attend a Centrelink appointment as she was feeling unwell and her Centrelink benefit has been cut off. Alice’s oldest daughter Mary is 22. She is unemployed, living at home and is unable to bring herself to look for work because she feels that “no-one will employ her”. She rarely goes out and spends most of her days in her room listening to loud rap music and caring for her sister’s children. She cries throughout the day for no apparent reason and on occasion she has self harmed by cutting her wrists with razor blades. She has disclosed thoughts of suicide to Alice but refuses to see anyone about this. Alice is worried about Mary her oldest daughter being so withdrawn and would like her to find work, socialise more and be able to talk to someone about her problems. When her cousin visits once in a while, they do spend time together and go out to the movies and the beach. Child protection services became involved with the grandchildren a year ago due to allegations of abuse and neglect. They placed the children in the care of their grandmother. The children were allocated a case manager but she rarely saw the family due to a lack of resources and staff turnover. The service was planning to discharge the case because they had not received any further allegations of abuse or neglect. You are working as the new case manager in the child protection service. You have received a referral from the intake team. They have received an anonymous telephone call, which you suspect is from Alice’s neighbours, alleging that the 2 young children are regularly seen wandering around the edge of the road unsupervised. The caller explained that they were worried about the children because their parents are ‘drug addicts’ and the grandmother is too sick to care for them. The intake team has assessed this situation as requiring further investigation.

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CASE STUDY 2
Natasha, a 13 year old girl, has been referred to child protection services by the school counsellor, who reports that she has been being sexually abused by her mother’s 19 year old half-brother. There are two other girls in the family: Emily aged 10 and Tara aged 8. Tara is doing well at school. Emily has been doing quite well, especially with music and netball, but her behaviour has started to deteriorate lately. Emily is starting to become rebellious at home and school as well.There has been a lot of conflict between Natasha and family members in the last 12-18 months. Natasha was a high performer in primary school, but has become very rebellious and difficult at school recently. Her grades have declined considerably over the last two years, and she only just scraped into year 9 this year. She is not handing in her homework and is suspected of truanting on a number of occasions. She is also behaving in a very sexualised manner with other students and teachers. Her father (Kevin, 39) has a very demanding job, and is frequently away from the family on business. When he is home, he is distant and detached from the children, and seems preoccupied with work. Mother (Julie, 36) works part time in a city restaurant, mostly during the day, but gets called in to take occasional night shifts. She also goes out with friends about once every two weeks, for company while her husband is away. She has a 19 year old half-brother who lived with the family for 6 months from the beginning of last year when he started at University. It is understood the abuse started during this time, and continues when he visits and when he baby-sits while Julie is out or working late and Kevin is away.

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CASE STUDY 3
Kaela’a husband was killed in Somalia, as were her sister and mother. She has no relatives in Australia and has little social contact. Kaela has been suffering from depression since immigrating to Australia with her three children (aged three, five and nine). Kaela has a number of appointments during the week and leaves her nine year old daughter in charge of the younger children as she has no one else to care for the children. Kaela came into contact with the child protection system after reports were made concerning her three children being left alone for extended periods of time. A neighbour also reported that Kaela’s two younger children have been found wandering the streets on a number of occasions and that they have asked for food a few times.

Reference: Arney, F & Scott, D (eds) (2013) Working with Vulnerable Families, Cambridge University Press, Australia, Chapter 5, Lewig, K, Arney, F, Salveron, M &Barredo, M, Parenting in a new culture: working with refugee families p.101
Answer the following questions in your case study analysis:

Policy, legal, ethical issues

Briefly discuss the national policy framework relevant to the case study (e.g. National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020)
What legal implications are evident in the case study (e.g. using state based child protection legislation- South Australia Children’s Protection Act 1993)?
What social work ethics, knowledge and values support the intervention (e.g. AASW Code of Ethics)?

Social work practice approach

Identify the key issues in your assessment of the case study.
What social work practice approach will you use and why (e.g. culturally sensitive, strengths, solution focused etc)?
What intervention plan, options and steps would you consider and which one will you choose first/prioritise? How will you determine if the intervention is effective?
How might you collaborate with the client/s? Consider issues of power, gender and culture in the case study.

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Brief Module Description:
This module will introduce BSc Policing students to the processing of evidence in scenes of crime from the moment of identification of a possible crime to the presentation of physical evidence in Court. Emphasis will be placed upon issues in handling evidence and consideration of the nature and range of physical evidence types. Reference Points QAA benchmark in Bioscience, Skills for Justice National Occupational Standards for Forensic Science, School and University Strategy and Policy Documents on Equality and Diversity. Professional, Statutory & Regulatory Bodies (PSRB) Skills for Justice Framework; Forensic Science Society Accreditation documentation.

The module forms part of a professionally accredited course and is of the appropriate content and rigour for Level 6 BSc Policing students.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the module students should be able to:
(1. understand the procedures involved in the investigation of crime and fire scenes (2. an critical appreciation of the different forms of trace and contact evidence
(3. an awareness of the need for continuity and integrity in evidence gathering processes.

Module Content Lectures will be delivered by professionals working in the Police or Forensic Services, plus academic specialist staff. Topics covered may include the following (but not necessarily in this order):

LECTURE 1 Crime Scene Assessment. Understanding crime categories, the terminology used and the differences between volume and major crime scenes. ?What is a Scene?? Information gathering and preparation required prior to scene visit. Approaching the scene. CAP?s and cordons. Case study of outdoor cordon methods in murder scene. Gaining information from the complainant or victim. Roles, responsibilities and liabilities of specialist personnel involved with scenes of crime Scene observations, action plan and preservation methods. Health and Safety considerations.

LECTURE 2 Identification of Different Evidence Types. Brief overview of general evidence types. Fingerprint evidence specific. Fingerprint classification. Identification by fingerprints. Importance of fingerprint elimination. Demonstration and description of equipment to be used in practical exercises. Case study of the use of third level detail in analysis of fingerprint evidence.

LECTURE 3 Other types of Contact Trace Evidence. Locards Theory. Uniqueness. Persistency. Evidential value. Importance of control and reference material in evidence gathering. Intelligence information.

LECTURES 4-5 Recording the Crime Scene. Producing sketch plans. Photographic records. Practical Photography. Recording and documenting the crime scene. Case study of scene photography, sketch plans and draughts men’s? plans.

LECTURE 6 Evidence Recovery and Recording. Integrity of the exhibit. Continuity of the exhibit. Exhibit referencing. Related documentation to prove integrity and continuity. Producing a crime scene examination report.

LECTURES 7-8 Contamination Issues. Implications of contamination. Packaging the exhibit and the avoidance of contamination. Dealing with a contaminated exhibit or scene. Secure storage of evidence

LECTURE 9 Statements of Evidence and Interpretation of Evidence. Understanding the legal requirements included in statements of evidence. Practical statement/report writing. Case study of court and police summary report writing. Evidence interpretation and scene reconstruction.

LECTURES 10-11 Overview of Forensic Science and its relationship with the investigation of crime. Discussion of what constitutes evidence and how to collect it. (White Chapters 1 and 2) Definition of forensic Science, Duties of the forensic scientist, Quality issues, Organisation and description of Scientific Support Departments in UK Forensic Science ( Fingerprints, Scene of Crime, Photographic, Laboratories and Scientific), Crime scene investigation (volume and major) collection and handling of exhibits.

LECTURE 12 Types of evidence: Survey the types of evidence handled during a forensic investigation including trace and contact evidence, marks and impressions, documents, fire remains, explosion remains, firearms, illegal substances, body fluids. Case study to illustrate these points.

LECTURE 13: Trace and Contact Evidence: A more detailed consideration of traces including methods of recovery and the characterisation and comparison of samples. Coverage to include fingerprints, hair fibres, glass fragments, soil etc.

LECTURE 14: Marks And Impressions: Types of impressions and how to recover a permanent record of them. Range to include latent fingerprints, tyre-marks, footprints, bruising, instrument & implement marks, wear patterns, blood spattering and smear marks. CASE STUDIES ? These will look at the recovery and handling evidence in a number of recent high profile cases and exemplify good practice and the need for caution in interpreting with contact and trace evidence types. Book

Resources
1.) RAUL SUTTON, KEITH TRUEMAN CRIME SCENE MANAGEMENT (Compulsory Text)
2.) S H JAMES, J N NORDBY FORENSIC SCIENCE (Recommended Reading)
3) Journal Resources for this module any article will have relevance to this module, Journal of Forensic Identification. Anything related to crime scene work – most are Journal of Forensic Identification.

Writers requirements for this order:
1.) The writer needs to be knowledgeable that holds an Undergraduate degree,  Masters or PHD in Criminology/ Forensic Sciences/ Policing or Law that has completed a similar case study to this and is educated in the UK. If you don’t have this then you should not bid.

2.) The writer needs to make sure that Learning Outcomes (LO), LO1,LO2,LO3 are covered in this case analysis.

3.) The writer needs to Analyse the case study and follow the full instructions as requested on the coursework.

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