Pub Date : 2018-10-17DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2018.1531744
Y. El-Lahib
ABSTRACT This article reports on a Critical Discourse Analysis study that focused on examining the intersection of disability, displacement, and social work. Situated within a critical understanding of the social justice role of social work, the study examined how dominant discourses of “opportunity” perpetuate oppression of people with disabilities and shape service provision. Findings discussed in this article emerged from narrative episodic interviews with 23 participants who shared stories about their experiences as immigrants and refugees with disabilities, as family members of immigrants or refugees with disabilities, or as service providers in settlement practice settings. These findings demonstrate that dominant discourses of opportunity reflect, reinforce and perpetuate ableism, racism, and colonialism, and suggest that social work as a profession is implicated in facilitating the operation of such discourses through efforts to actualize opportunity. Implications of these findings for social work practice are identified and discussed.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-09DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2018.1525236
Andrew J. Fultz, D. Kondrat
ABSTRACT Understanding how privilege is constructed and reconstructed over time is imperative to move toward a more just society. White fragility and tactics used to avoid race-based stress sustains privilege. The roots of Fragility are examined through the lens of three Whiteidentity theoretical models: the White Identity Development Process Model, the White Racial Identity Model, and the White Male Identity Development Model. Further, motivation theories are explored to tie privilege, White identity, and social work together cohesively. Recommendations for social work education, research, and practice are given for combating prejudice and racism.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-14DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2018.1507590
Gita R. Mehrotra, Kimberly D. Hudson, Jen M. Self
ABSTRACT This article examines underlying assumptions of Master of Social Work diversity and social justice courses as sites that embody social work’s dual projects of social justice and professionalization. Through a latent content analysis of course syllabi from 27 US-based social work programs, three key assumptions emerged: (1) social workers are members of dominant social groups; (2) cultural competency and anti-oppression are compatible frameworks; (3) self-awareness mitigates oppression. Findings reflect the reification of dominant culture groups in social work and promotion of individual-level skill development over structural change. Implications and recommendations for social work education and future research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2017.1399034
Stephanie C Kennedy, Annelise M. Mennicke
ABSTRACT Although women’s rates of incarceration have increased dramatically, the criminal justice system does not meet women’s unique needs. This article used qualitative methods to describe the responses of 113 incarcerated women to the following question: How can we better help women like you? Analyses focused on women’s experiences of victimization and highlighted how to address trauma in prison reform and abolition efforts. Women suggested how victimization fueled their criminal offending behavior, detailed re-victimization in the prison milieu, and identified program gaps during custody and after release. Opportunities for immediate action include policy advocacy, mitigation, and shifting to a trauma-informed correctional approach.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2018.1542549
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2017.1399036
Stacey L. Barrenger, V. Stanhope, K. Atterbury
ABSTRACT People with mental illnesses are overrepresented in the criminal justice system, and discourses concerning the medical model, criminalization, and criminality dominate the intervention landscape for this population. Using a critical postmodern lens, 45 in-depth interviews with peer specialists who had incarceration histories were analyzed to understand how they approach their work. Peer specialists with incarceration histories constructed new identities through their training and peer work by valuing experiential knowledge. Even in the face of power differentials, they challenged dominant discourses directly and indirectly and advocated for various forms of help for the people with whom they worked.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2018.1492783
Kerry Dunn
As the liberal world order faces destabilizing change, the prison/crime industrial complex remains a stronghold of state and corporate coercive power. People are locked up in the US in numbers that are unprecedented in our own history and internationally, an overwhelming proportion of those ensnared are people of color and poor whites from abandoned communities; and a confluence of economic, political, and ideological investments block reform. While social work research related to the criminal justice system is increasing—particularly on the topic of reentry services—we noted a lack of current scholarship on prisons from a radical social work perspective. To address this gap, Journal of Progressive Human Services (JPHS) put out a call for articles that describe efforts to respond to the social, economic, and health needs of people in and leaving correctional institutions in ways that challenge dominant paradigms and power structures. The aim of this special issue was to examine how radical social workers can build empowering collaborations across stakeholder groups impacted by the criminal justice system to push for redistribution of social and economic resources. We chose to use the phrase “radical social work” to reconnect to JPHS’ post-Marxist roots. Marxist and neo-Marxist theories have influenced the social work profession since its inception (Reisch & Andrews, 2002). Settlement House workers, Rank and Filers, Welfare Rights Movement organizers, and founders of the Bertha Kappa Reynolds Society all recognized capitalism as the driving force behind poverty, exploitation, and suffering. Likewise, JPHS’ predecessor, the Catalyst: A Socialist Journal of the Social Services, was founded to provide a socialist voice within social work scholarship. Marx and his progeny continue to bring our focus to material disparities and their relationship to power disparities, both on the societal level as well as among social workers and the individuals, families, and communities with whom we work. We looked for articles clearly connected to a critical perspective not only on the criminal justice system but also on its place within capitalist structures and their supporting ideologies.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2017.1399035
E. O. Cox, Johny Augustine
ABSTRACT Characteristics of the current United States criminal justice system include mass incarceration at a rate higher than that of any other Western country, extraordinarily long sentences, rampant racial discrimination, and discrimination against all low-income persons. The impact of this system goes beyond devastation of those subject to supervision of the system to their families, communities, and society at large. This article analyzes the current criminal justice system relative to neoliberalism and ongoing reform efforts. The possible roles of radical social work in facilitating reforms and connecting criminal justice advocacy and issues to larger structural issues as well as direct practice strategies are explored.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-09DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2018.1502998
Katherine Occhiuto, Lindsay Rowlands
ABSTRACT This article shines light on the tension-filled subjectivity of community practice, reflecting on the experiences of two community workers and our stories of how our whiteness functions in community practice—particularly when white workers engage with racialized community members. Through these stories, we seek to demonstrate how the white worker is framed as what we call an “innocent expert subject”; this subject is one that is both constituted through the authority of the systems we work within, and one which we construct through our own actions. Potential dangers of this subjectivity are then explored, as are opportunities for subversion. As we work toward negating the potential harms caused by this fraught subjectivity, it is our hope that possibilities for different kinds of community work, and different kinds of white community workers, can be realized.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-30DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2018.1474670
A. Gupta
ABSTRACT The following question was posed, has social science research helped or harmed us? Social work research was used for the purpose of illustration. Three hazards of applying social work basic research were outlined: (1) It is bias (reflecting the left-leaning values of many academics) and leads to the reduction in our freedoms; (2) the social work bias is rooted in a supposed moral high ground called social justice; and (3), the voice of the non-academics becomes deflated, as epistemic elitism is used to foist views upon us by the political class, undermining common cultures. On the heels of the three points, conclusions were offered to consider if any moderating factors exist to address the concern about the loss of freedoms discussed.
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