Abolition and social work : Possibilities, paradoxes, and the practice of community care / edited by Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, Durrell M. Washington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kim, Mimi E., editor.

Rasmussen, Cameron, editor.

Washington, Durrell M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternatives to imprisonment.

Antislavery movements.

Decolonization.

Harm reduction.

Mass incarceration.

Police abolition movement.

Restorative justice.

Social service and race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, [2024]

Summary:

A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work-a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state-abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a form of "soft policing." For radical social work, abolition moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility. Featuring a foreword by Mariame Kaba, Abolition and Social Work offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social work-a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798888901175

9798888900918

OCLC:

1425813307