Anti-oppressive social work practice and the carceral state /
"The United States has experienced a period of prolonged and unprecedented carceral state control and growth over the last forty years. This immense growth reflects changes in sentencing policies, including mandatory and determinate terms for a broader range of offenses and an emphasis on punis...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Foundations for anti-oppressive social work practice and the carceral stage
- How we got here and where we want to go
- The sociopolitical context of social work practice and the carceral state
- An anti-oppressive framework for social work practice in the carceral state
- The criminalization of people with mental illness
- Part II: Anti-oppressive social work practice in carceral settings
- An anti-oppressive social work approach to public safety and judicial responses
- Transparency and transformation in carceral detention
- Challenges and possibilities of anti-oppressive social work practice in prison with men
- Challenges and possibilities of anti-oppressive social work practice in prison with women
- Part III: Levels of intervention
- How families resist the carceral state and move toward healing
- Reinvesting in people and communities
- Knowledge building for revisioning accountability and restoration
- Transformative justice: dismantling the carceral state
- Conclusion and a call to action.