1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Justice Social Work
Introduction
Part I – Theoretical Approaches and Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice Social Work
Chapter One – Paradoxes of Professionalization: Reflections on Building Abolitionist Social Work Praxis in the Contradictions
Josh Lown and Cameron W. Rasmussen
Chapter Two – Challenging the Myth of a Permanent Criminal Legal Institution in Social Work Education in the United States
Anna K. Wood and Kat Layton
Chapter Three – A Rights-based approach to criminal justice in Flanders
Liesbeth Naessens
Chapter Four – A Duo-Ethnographic Exploration of Criminal In/Justice, Social Work and Activism
Suzette Jackson and John Darroch
Chapter Five – Disability Studies, Social Work and Criminal Justice: Conceptualising a dis/ableist criminology
Stephen J Macdonald and Donna Peacock
Chapter Six – A Divided/Divisive Path: Criminal Justice Social Work Education across the Four Nations of the UK
Caroline Bald
Chapter Seven – Softening the Hearts of People Who Come into Conflict with the Law: Criminal Justice Social Work in Hong Kong
Wing Hong Chui, Aaron H. L. Wong and Paul Vinod Khiatani
Chapter Eight – Investigating the role of social workers in Zimbabwe in promoting criminal justice through human rights activism and advocacy
Francis Maushe, Benevolence Nyamugada and Vongai Mangwiro
Chapter Nine – Assisted Desistance and Social Work
Christian Ghanem and Franz Zahradnik
Chapter Ten – Green Activism and Social Networks of Care, Repair and Action: A Criminological Perspective
Anna Di Ronco and Nigel South
Part II – Social Work in the Prison System
Chapter Eleven – Prison social work: Challenges and proposals from a Global North-South dialogue
Miguel Urra Canales and Francisco Reyes Torres
Chapter Twelve – Centralised and embedded in-house social work in Swiss prisons: Challenges and opportunities for the resulting roles
Marina Richter, Julia Emprechtinger and Martin Böhnel
Chapter Thirteen – Social Intervention in Semi-Open Prisons in Spain
Diego Ruedas Torres, Francesca Columbano and Consuelo del Val Cid
Chapter Fourteen – Social work behind bars in Latin America: A website-based, initial exploration
Guillermo Sanhueza Josefina Alarcón and Dan Valdivia
Chapter Fifteen – The Extended Effects of Incarceration in Latin America: The Central Role of Women
Vanina Ferreccio
Chapter Sixteen – Together, a Chance: Piloting family social workers in two women’s prisons in England, UK
Joanne Mulcahy, Becky Wray, Katia Parent, Alyson Rees, Charlotte Waits and Zoe Bezeczky
Chapter Seventeen – Looking out as well as in: Justice Social Workers, Prison Yoga Teachers and resisting ‘secondhand carcerality’ in UK prisons
Rose Parkes
Chapter Eighteen – Behind Bars: Lived Experiences of Youth Prisoners and Social Work Intervention in Indian Prisons
Parishmita Dutta
Part III – Children, Youth and Criminal Justice Social Work
Chapter Nineteen – The Penal System for Young Offenders in Germany: (Un-)ambiguous tasks of social work. Professional work in the reflection of contradictions and (un-)certainties
Sarah Blume
Chapter Twenty – Hidden in plain sight: Differential approaches to ‘best interests’ protection of minors in the justice systems in Spain and Ireland
Esther Raya-Diez, Gloria Kirwan, Ana Belén Cuesta and Claire Quinn
Chapter Twenty-one – Determinants and methods of resocialization of juvenile offenders -
A Polish perspective
Justyna Siemionow
Chapter Twenty-two – Social Work and Chilean Drug Treatment Courts for Juvenile Offenders
Claudia Reyes-Quilodrán and Jeanne Hersant
Chapter Twenty-three – Trauma Informed Youth Offending Practice: Ethical Considerations
Donna-Maree Humphery
Chapter Twenty-four – Lived experience informed criminal justice social work in England: A case of Generative Justice?
Danica Darley and Gillian Buck
Chapter Twenty-five – Surviving violence: Analysing youth violence and the role of social workers in facilitating restorative justice services in post-apartheid South Africa
Luvuyo Teko, Sisanda Mguzulwa and Lufuno Sadiki
Chapter Twenty-six – Critical Social Work and Youth Justice: Reimagining Practice Through Reflexivity, Collaboration, and Anti-Oppressive Frameworks
Kristel Campbell-Bobb
Chapter Twenty-seven - Lived experience and meaning making. Stories of courage over childhood adversity
Stephanie Hunter
Part IV – Social Work, Health and Justice
Chapter Twenty-eight – Social work's role in promoting continuity of care in Health and Justice
Elizabeth Taylor-Diparno
Chapter Twenty-nine – Behind the closed doors - The journey to recovery: Insights into ‘inpatient’ forensic social work and the role of the forensic social worker
Natalia Phillips and Oshéa Johnson
Chapter Thirty – Addiction in the Family: A Critical Reflection of Family Recovery and Lessons Learned for Forensic Social Work
Michael John Norton
Chapter Thirty-one – Criminal Justice Social Work in Ghanaian Hospitals: A Qualitative examination of the hospital social work role in promoting criminal justice in Ghanaian Hospitals
John Boulard Forkuor, Kwadwo Ofori-Dua, David Forkuor, Franklin Abeiku Siaw Benyin and Florence Kyei Baffour
Chapter Thirty-two – Promoting community-based social work for justice-involved people with mental illness in Japan
Hiroki Toi
Chapter Thirty-three – Brain injury rehabilitation behind closed doors: Reflections from delivering neurorehabilitation in prisons in the United Kingdom
Annmarie Burns and Elorm Boglo
Chapter Thirty-four – The Social and Health Care Needs of Older Prisoners in England and Wales
Paul Gavin, Cody Normitta Porter and Finley Macdonald
Part V – Social Exclusion and Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter Thirty-five – Social work as family policing
Stephen Crossley
Chapter Thirty-six – Children in Care, Care Leavers, and Criminological Outcomes: Current Evidence and Future Research Directions Relating to Socioeconomic Factors in the UK
Guy Skinner
Chapter Thirty-seven – When Culture and Safeguarding Collide: Identifying and Preventing Child Exploitation in Roma Communities
Sarah Shorrock, Gareth Addidle, Daniel Balaz, Diane Holdsworth and Rebecca Wilkins
Chapter Thirty-eight – Homelessness in context: A South African perspective of victimisation and policy intervention
Lufuno Sadiki and Jean-Paul Pophaim
Chapter Thirty-nine – Neurodiversity in the Youth Justice System in England and Wales: An Evolving Landscape
Vicky Palmer
Chapter Forty – The Effectiveness of an Emotional Regulation Model for Black Men in Batterer Intervention Programs in the United States
Chelsea Hood
Chapter Forty-one – From Parole Officer to Social Work Professor in Canada: Criminal justice social work education and practice with Deaf offenders
Tracey A. Bone
Chapter Forty-two – Utilising Restorative Justice to Break the Cycle of Harm for Children in Conflict with the Law: South African Perspectives
Marelize I Schoeman
Part VI – Police Social Work, Social Work in Courts and Criminal Justice Social Work with Communities
Chapter Forty-three – Bringing a human rights-based approach to the supervision of court orders
David Cross
Chapter Forty-four – Diversion from Prosecution in Scotland: Promises and pitfalls
Ross Gibson and Cara Jardine
Chapter Forty-five – Police Social Work in India
Ruchi Sinha, Sony Kunjappan and Donita Quadros
Chapter Forty-six – Forensic Social Work in the Courts of Justice in Spain
Rafael Alcázar Ruiz, Raúl Soto Esteban and Domingo Carbonero Muñoz
Chapter Forty-seven – Mainstreaming Social Work Intervention as an Element of Fair Trial
Monica Sakhrani and Medha Deo
Chapter Forty-eight – Justice Social Work in Scotland: Research, Education and Practice in a Devolved Jurisdiction
Jamie Buchan and Scott Grant
Chapter Forty-nine – Accompanying victims in trials for human rights violations in Argentina and Chile: Social work practices as part of an interdisciplinary approach
Carla Cubillos Vega
Chapter Fifty – Social work in special jurisdictions (JEP and community justice) in Colombia, from a human rights approach
Ginneth Esmeralda Narvaéz Jaimes, Miguel Urra, Germán Alexander Gamba Trimiño and Edwin Jaime Ruiz
Chapter Fifty-one – Creating Community and Practising Abolition: A Case Study of the Development of Seeds of Affinity, a grassroots organisation supporting currently and formerly incarcerated women in South Australia
Anna Kemp, Linda Fisk and Michele Jarldorn
Biography
Caroline J. Bald is Lecturer in Social Work at the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on inclusive social work education admissions and curricula.
María Inés Martínez Herrero is Lecturer in Social Work at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain. Her research focuses on human rights, social justice and social work histories.






