Historical Perspective of Medical Social Work

The emergence of medical social work has been partly the result of an evolutionary process and partly the profession’s reaction to the changing situation and needs of health care system. The necessity of medical social work practice in health sector was first felt in England in the 1885 when discharged patients of mental hospitals needed after care in their homes to avoid recurrence of illness. Visitors went to the patients home and advised family and friends about the necessary care of the patient.

Crime Index Bangladesh perspective

Emphasizing the need for statistics in the field of criminology Donald Taft (Criminology, 4th ed.) observed that quantification which includes counting, measuring, and collating the phenomena under study is the basic process in modern scientific approach to criminal science. Crime statistics involve compiling crime-record in order to relate them to time, place and circumstances. It also depicts the picture of distribution of crimes in different areas, regions, and locations (N. V. Paranjape, 2005). In our country, the most widely used source of data on crime studies is known as crime statistics gathered by law enforcing agencies,