This article will focus on riviewing the group work principles with adolescents and their implementation in the framework of potentials perspective in education environments, such as schools, residential settings, penitentiary institutions or probation service, etc. For the purpose of this article education environment is defined as institutional settings where the work include education and treatment of behavioral problems of adolescents. Institutional settings impose to adolescents certain normes and rules, which can raise the reaction of adolescents and their resistance if they don't precieve the leader of the group, the program and the environment as a safe and respectful aspect to him/her.Group work principles with adolescents of Andrew Malekoff (Malekoff 2001(Malekoff ,2002 are a good contribute to the work in education environment of many social workers or other profesionals as: teachers, psychologists, education assistants. The combination of perspective of potentionals with group work priciples of Malekoff is a very good framework for any program focused on adolescents emotional or behavior problems in education environments.

Penal justice system is made of many agencies that take decisions, agencies of execution of penal decisions, so it's difficult to understand immediately the relation between them and their position regarding the law itself. This article unifies the ways of looking at the penal justice system in its wholeness and gives different perspectives to analyze it. Different parts of penal justice system raise to us important questions so to have a view of all parts of it, even those hidden, we need to see it from different perspectives. Penal justice system might be seen from different perspectives: its structure, police role, penal decisions phase, common policies of crime control of different institutions or penal procedures foreseen in the penal legislation. To understand penal justice system we need to be familiar with penal legislation, institutional practices but also to know the socalled "system models" and management styles which are some of more suggested perspectives to be used by social sciences professionals.

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