The Keepers and the Kept: Social Work and Criminalized Women, an Historical Review

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK

Journal of Progressive Human Services Pub Date : 2022-03-08 DOI:10.1080/10428232.2022.2049184

Sandra M. Leotti

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Current trends in women’s criminalization reflect historical patterns of racism, gender conformity, and enforcing normality. This paper traces key shifts in policy and discourse on women’s punishment in the United States from the mid 19th century to contemporary times. Additionally, this paper reflects on social work’s role in the history of responding to criminalized women and its involvement in prison reform efforts. I argue that the profession’s reform efforts on behalf of criminalized women operate as a form of carceral humanism, enabling expansion of the carceral state. To meaningfully challenge mass incarceration, social work must engage anti-carceral/abolitionist politics and praxis.

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守护者与被守护者:社会工作与被定罪的女性，一个历史回顾

摘要当前女性犯罪的趋势反映了种族主义、性别认同和强制正常化的历史模式。本文追溯了从19世纪中期到当代美国关于女性惩罚的政策和话语的关键转变。此外，本文还反思了社会工作在应对被定罪妇女的历史中的作用及其参与监狱改革的努力。我认为，该行业为被定罪的女性所做的改革努力是一种尸体人道主义的形式，有助于扩大尸体国家。为了有意义地挑战大规模监禁，社会工作必须参与反死刑/废奴主义政治和实践。

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Journal of Progressive Human Services SOCIAL WORK-

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3.20

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.