They'll work on everything from new medicines for humans to botanical experiments to help farmers maximize their crops. Perhaps, but vital to our future battles against disease. In reality, the field's growth has been aided by a recent emphasis on a fusion of the public and private spheres, wherein federal money with fewer strings attached will go directly to private organizations to use as they see fit. It's an approach both Al Gore and George W. Bush have championed, and it's lending clout to a field that will grow by more than 200,000 jobs over the next decade. Social workers can go anywhere and be well prepared to do just about anything.
Nobody locks 'em up the way the U.S. does.
But that doesn't mean it's not sophisticated. Well, the fact that you're surrounded by criminals all day. On the other hand, some people like confrontation and a frenzied work environment. They get to go home at the end of the day. This was due in large part to the stock market, which attained vast celebrity this past decade.