<p><strong>A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.<br /><br /></strong>Within social work&mdash;a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state&mdash;abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a form of &ldquo;soft policing.&rdquo; For radical social work, abolition moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility.<br /><br />Featuring a foreword by Mariame Kaba, <em>Abolition and Social Work</em> offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social work&mdash;a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.<br /><br />Contributors include Autumn Asher BlackDeer, Ramona Beltran, Danica Brown, Charlene A. Caruthers, Angela Y. Davis, Alan Dettlaff, Tanisha &ldquo;Wakumi&rdquo; Douglas, Annie Zean Dunbar, Angela Fernandez, Kassandra Frederique, Mar&iacute;a Gandarilla Ocampo, Claudette L. Grinnell-Davis, Sam Harrell, Justin S. Harty, Shira Hassan, Leah A. Jacobs, Nev Jones, Joyce McMillan, Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work, Dorothy Roberts, Sophia Sarantakos, Katie Schultz, and St&eacute;phanie Wahab. <br /><br /></p>