This revised and expanded second edition of Police Social Work provides a model for developing, implementing, and evaluating police social work and social service collaboration within the context of contemporary policing strategies.

Across 15 chapters, this book covers:

• The practice of professional social work within law enforcement agencies and the types of social problems addressed
• Ethical and other issues that arise when practicing police social work and essential knowledge and skills to address these issues
• Further clarity between the practice of police social work, police and social work collaboration and police and social service collaboration, in which the service providers are not professional social workers
• A model for developing police social work collaborations and investigating collaboration effectiveness
• Expanded roles for police social work practice such as consultation, officer selection, training recruits and police officers, and assisting their families.

Including new chapters on working with vulnerable populations; and first responder, second responder and co-responder models, this volume provides a wealth of case studies and reference material to prepare students for police social work practice, while also serving as a vital resource for police officers, recruits, and students majoring in policing.

George T. Patterson as a certified police instructor and police social worker served as a visiting professor, curriculum adviser and trainer in law enforcement training academies. His written testimony appears in the May 2015 Final Report of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing established by President Obama. Dr. Patterson also served as a panelist during a police social work congressional briefing, and has published on police social work and police stress topics.