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Chapter 10. The Only Good Social Worker Is a Criminal Social Worker
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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The text critically interrogates professional identity regarding how roles reinforce state control rather than liberation for marginalized demographics. It defines abolitionism as a cultural process focused on community-led support systems prioritizing self-determination over state intervention. Finally, it articulates a vision for structural transformation to eliminate root causes like poverty and racism through decentralized care and mutual aid networks.
Contributors
Chanelle Gallant
Craig Fortieris a Tkaronto/Toronto based scholar and community organizer. They have worked as a social worker in housing, youth organizing, and non-profit funding organizations while also organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans*, anti-capitalist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. Currently, they are an associate professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo) and are the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism.
