Social work, criminal law, and forensic work: Theoretical and methodological approaches to determining the extent of harm caused by homicide crimes

Abstract

The article is intended to make a significant contribution to the exercise of the professional practice of social work transversal to the judicial field and criminal law.
In consent, to ponder the social report as a relevant technical instrument in relation to estimating the extent of the damage as an element of expert evidence in judicial cases where the crime of homicide is investigated. Therefore, to set up relevant aspects that may arise from the challenges of exercising professional practice in judicial processes where different disciplines converge.