Abolition in Social Work and Human Services

1.The Politics of Abolition in Social Work and Human Services - Ian Hyslop and Bob Pease

Part 1: The Abolitionist Critique: Foundations and Visions

2.Why Abolition - Dorothy Roberts

3.Social Work and the Abolitionist Movement in the United States - Alan J. Dettlaff

4.Abolition and Child Protection in England: Is Another World Possible? - Anna Gupta

5.Radical Reflection Plus Radical Transformation Equals Revolutionary Social Work - Bindi Bennett and Péta Phelan

6.Punishment Disguised as ‘Help’: Carcerality in the Human Services and the Role of Social Work Towards Abolition - Sacha Jamieson and Lobna Yassine

7.Wither Child Maltreatment Investigations by Social Workers: A Case for Abolishing the Principal Carceral Link in the Family Regulation System - Lisa Merkel-Holguin and Ida Drury

Part 2: Abolitionist Thinking in Practice: Implications for Social Justice Organising

8.Social Work and Social Justice: The Opportunity of an Abolitionist Lens - Ian Hyslop

9.Indigenous Child Protection in Canada: The Insanity of Doing it the Same Way - Peter Choate

10.The Roadmap to Child Protection Abolition for Māori - Kerri Cleaver

11.Prison Abolition as a Feminist of Color Project: Lessons from the United States - Mimi Kim

12.The Limits of Violence Prevention in the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: Moving Beyond the Masculinist State - Bob Pease

13.Transformative Justice Informed Community Responses to Harm: A Conversation with Idil Ali, Lauren Caufield and Anita Thomasson - Anne-lise Ah-fat

14.Dismantling the Master’s House? Abolition, Deradicalisation and Social Work - Sophie Shall and David McKendrick

15.Harm Reduction in the Opiate Crisis: Non-Carceral Community-Led Services and Compassion - Donna Baines and Mohamed Ibrahim

16.‘Big Brother is Watching at all Times’: Lone Mothers and Their Children in ‘Family Hubs’ in the Republic of Ireland - Aoife Donohue and Paul Michael Garrett

Part 3: Facing the Challenges of Abolitionism: Critical Engagements with the State

17.Abolition, Decolonisation or Public Health Reform: How Do They Align With a Communities of Care Approach to Child Protection? - Emily Keddell

18.Haunting, Abolition and Finnish Child Welfare - Kris Clarke and Mwenza Blell

19.Beyond ‘Doing Harm’ and ‘Doing Nothing’: Creating Generative Alternatives to Psychiatric Carcerality - Emma Tseris

20.Twin Births, Twin Abolitions: Abolishing the Capitalist, Carceral State and the Liberal Individual – and with them, Conventional Social Work - John Fox

21.After Social Work? - Chris Maylea