Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care is 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.
Joyce McMillan and Dorothy Roberts share their insights in the book's chapter titled, “Social Work and Family Policing”. Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care is now available for purchase through major retailers.