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Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations
From: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle
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In Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations the authors examine the limitations of proposed reforms such as ones that argue for collaboration between police and external partners, especially social workers, in certain instances of mental health emergencies and wellness checks. The chapter argues against these reformist ideas on account of reasoning such as this could increase criminalization and securitization of in need people, and police and social worker partnerships would require more funding and resources running counter to urgent calls for defunding and dismantlement. The authors also note that, like policing, the social work profession was built on colonial, racist, and classist interventions and it has its own issues still only recently being addressed and dealt with, and thus to assume it can help reform policing appears overly optimistic.
Contributors
Ann De Shalit
Ann De Shalit is an instructor and researcher applying critical perspectives to anti-trafficking policy and programming. She utilizes labour and migrant justice approaches to expose the broadly defined impacts of anti-trafficking discourse and practice, and to assess harm, vulnerability, and intervention. Ann has been involved in community-based campaigns and actions advocating for access to services for marginalized communities, improved conditions for precarious workers, and prison health.Adrian Guta
Adrian Guta is a social worker and critical health scholar interested in how marginalized communities and populations are governedand regulated through the care/control function of medicine, public health, social services, and the criminal justice system. He has written extensively about the needs of people living with and affected by HIV and people who use drugs.Camisha Sibblis
Camisha Sibblis is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Law and Society with a focus on Black Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research uses spatial and critical race theories to focus on anti-Black racism, the ubiquity of carcerality in Black life, and the politics of identity. Camisha has extensive experience working with marginalized communities as a school social worker, child welfare worker, and clinician assessing the effects of anti-Black racism on the lives of the defenders for sentencing hearings. She is an experienced mental health practitioner and a court-designated expert on systemic racism. Among her vast community work, she sits on the board of the Black Community Action Network and was a long-standing member of the Council for Adolescent Suicide Prevention.Emily van der Meulen
Emily van der Meulen conducts participatory research in the areas of critical and feminist criminology, prison- and community-based harm reduction, and surveillance studies. She has co-edited numerous books, the most recent of which are Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance (UBC Press, 2018), Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada (UBC Press, 2022).Jijian Voronka
Jijian Voronka is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor. She teaches primarily for their Disability Studies program, where she uses Critical Disability Studies perspectives to elucidate confluences of power that affect disabled people in everyday, community, and institutional life.
