Dr. Corey Shdaimah, Associate Professor & Academic Coordinator for the MSW/JD Dual Degree Program

Mailing Information: | Contact Information: | University of Maryland | Phone: (410) 706-7544 | School of Social Work | Fax: (410) 706.6046 | 525 West Redwood Street | E-mail: cshdaimah@ssw.umaryland.edu | Baltimore, Maryland 21201 | Room: 3W07 | | CV | |
Education: | LLB, Tel Aviv University School of Law | LLM, University of Pennsylvania Law School | PhD, Bryn Mawr College |
Expertise and Research Interests: | Professional roles and social justice | Effects of policy on low-income individuals and communities | Theory and practice knowledge |
Memberships: | Law and Society Association | National Association of Social Workers |
Recent Publications: | | Shdaimah, C.S., Kaufman, B.R., Bright, C.L, & Flower, S.M. (2012). Neighborhood assessment of prostitution as a pressing social problem and appropriate responses: Results from a community survey. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 10.1177/0887403412466671 | Hisle, B., Shdaimah, C.S., Finegar, N. (2012). Neighborhood Defenders Program: An evaluation of Maryland’s holistic representation program. Journal of Forensic Social Work, 2, 122-40. | | Shdaimah, C.S. & Wiechelt, S.A., (2012). Crime and compassion: Women in prostitution at the intersection of criminality and victimization. International Review of Victimology, 19(1), 23-35. | Strier, R., Feldman, G., & Shdaimah, C.S. (2012). The construction of social class in social work education: A study of introductory textbooks. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 32 (4), 406-420. doi:10.1080/08841233.2012.667753 | Leon, C. & Shdaimah, C.S. (2012). JUSTifying Scrutiny: State power in prostitution diversion programs. Journal of Poverty, 16, 250-273. | Shdaimah, C.S. & Palley, E. (2012). Baby steps or big steps?: Elite advocate perspectives on US childcare advocacy. Journal of Policy Practice, 11(3), 158-177. | Shdaimah, C.S. & Wiechelt, S.A., (2012) Converging on empathy: Perspectives on Baltimore City’s Specialized Prostitution Diversion Program. Women and Criminal Justice 22 (2), 156-173. | Wiechelt, S. A., & Shdaimah, C.S. (2011). Trauma and substance abuse among women in prostitution: Implications for a specialized diversion program. Journal of Forensic Social Work.1, 159-184. | Burry, C.L., Shdaimah, C.S., Richardson, L., & Rice, K. (2011). Child welfare in the court: A collaboration between social work and law faculty to prepare social work students for work with the courts. Journal of Public Child Welfare 5(4), 1-19. | Shdaimah, C., Bryant, V., Sander, R. L. and Cornelius, L. J. (2011), Knocking on the door: Juvenile and family courts as a forum for facilitating school attendance and decreasing truancy. Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 62(4), 1-18 | Shdaimah, C.S., (2010) “The law cannot terminate bloodlines”: Families and child welfare decisions. Children and Youth Services Review 32, 704-710 | Shdaimah, C.S. (2009) Rescuing children and punishing poor families: Decision-making about housing (in) adequacy among child welfare professionals. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 36 (3), 33-57. | | Shdaimah, C. (2010). Taking a Stand in a Not-So-Perfect World: What's a Critical Supporter of Problem-Solving Courts to Do? University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, 10(1). | | Shdaimah, C.S.(2009). What social work has to offer evidence-based practice. Ethics and Social Welfare 3(1), 18-31. | | Shdaimah, C. (2009). The Power of Perspective: Teaching Social Policy with Documentary Film. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 29 (1), 85-100. | | Shdaimah, C.S., (2008) Of pots of gold and pots of glue: Society's maltreatment of America's poorest children and their families. Journal of Progressive Human Services 19(2), 92-111. | Shdaimah, C. (2008) "CPS is not a housing agency"; Housing is a CPS problem: Towards a definition and typology of housing problems in child welfare cases, Children and Youth Services Review 31, 211-218. | | Shdaimah, C.S. (2008) “Not what they expected: Legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients,” in The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, (Eds.) Cambridge University Press. | | McCoyd, J.L.M. & Shdaimah, C.S. (2007) “Revisiting the benefits debate: Does qualitative social work research produce salubrious effects?” Social Work 52(4)340-349. | "Collaboration Between Community Advocates and Academic Researchers: Scientific Advocacy or Political Research?" Roland Stahl and Corey Shdaimah, British Journal of Social Work 2007; 38(8) 1610-1629 | Intersecting identities: Cause Lawyers as Legal Professionals and Social Movement Actors” (2006) in Cause Lawyers Lawyers and Social Movements, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, eds. (Stanford University Press). | With Roland Stahl, “Reflections on Doing Phronetic Research: A Case Study,” (2006) in Debating Flyvbjerg: Making Political Science Matter, Brian Caterino and Sanford F. Schram, eds. (New York University Press). | “Dilemmas of ‘Progressive’ Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy,” (2005) in Cause Lawyering: The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, eds. (Stanford University Press). | | | BOOKS | | Palley, E. & Shdaimah, C.S. (forthcoming). The complicated history of U.S. child care policy. New York: New York University Press. | | Shdaimah, Corey S., Stahl, Roland W., Schram, Stanford F. Change Research: A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Order information at: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15178-8/change-research | Shdaimah, C.S. (2009) Negotiating justice: Public interest lawyering, low-income clients, and the pursuit of social justice, New York University Press. |
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