Working with Mandated Clients Research Group
The Working with Mandated Clients Research Group occupies itself with social, pedagogic and legal professionals who work with mandated clients. These professionals work, for example, in rehabilitation, youth penitentiaries, youth protection or at a TBS hospital. They work with citizens who came into contact with the legal system, who are group leaders in closed institutions or who are guardians of children whose development is jeopardised. The help these professionals offer is imposed on these citizens, mostly by courts. In other words, these professionals work with mandated clients (either in a civil or criminal law context). They monitor delinquents or high risk families and in the process continuously combine two goals: the goal of risk management for the society or the direct environment, and the goal of rehabilitation and re-integration.
The research programme of this research group seeks to contribute to the practical and scientific
knowledge regarding this sector. Professionalism and continuity are the spearheads of the research programme. The research group shifts between scientific argumentation concerning efficiency and detailed reconstructions of successful practices. In addition, the Department of Society and Law, in close cooperation with this research group, develops education for professionals who already work in this field, and students who seek to work in this field.