Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care

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A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.

possible, or even the goal

offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social worka necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of restorative justice and reimagining wellness, social welfare, and care work.

Author Bio

Mimi E. Kim is assistant professor of social work at California State University, Long Beach and founder of Creative Interventions. Kim continues her political work through promotion of transformative justice and abolitionist visions and practices of community care and safety.

Cameron Rasmussen is a social worker, educator and facilitator. He is an Associate Director at the Center for Justice at Columbia University, a lecturer at Columbia Social Work, a PhD student at the Graduate Center, and a Collaborator with the NAASW.

Durrell M. Washington is an author, social worker, educator, facilitator, and socio-legal scholar from the Bronx, New York. He is a collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago.