000013557 001__ 13557 000013557 005__ 20240918114710.0 000013557 02470 $$ahttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090491$$2doi 000013557 037__ $$aTEXTUAL 000013557 037__ $$bArticle 000013557 041__ $$aeng 000013557 245__ $$a “We Owe It to Those Who Shall Come after Us”: Considering the Role of Social Work Education in Disrupting Carceral Complicity 000013557 269__ $$a2024-09-17 000013557 336__ $$aArticle 000013557 520__ $$aReflecting upon Mary Richmond’s early call for formalized social work training to address the historical struggles of the field, this analysis examines how American social work education has addressed the paradoxes of help and harm present in the field for more than a century. We examine how, under the guise of benevolence and care, social work has exerted social control and contributed to gendered criminalization. We use the term carceral complicity to extend the concept of carceral social work, illustrating how carceral complicity has contributed to women’s criminalization through the embedding, enacting, and invisibilizing of carceral logics in social work. In addition to describing how carceral complicity has been addressed in social work education, we illustrate the gendered nature of carceral complicity, highlighting how women have historically and contemporarily been positioned as both the proprietors and the recipients of carceral complicity. In line with recent scholarship, we suggest that through a transformative approach to social work education we may disrupt carceral complicity and support liberatory futures. 000013557 540__ $$a<p>© 2024 by the authors</p> <p>This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>).</p> 000013557 542__ $$fCC BY 000013557 594__ $$aNo new data were created or analyzed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article. 000013557 6531_ $$asocial work education 000013557 6531_ $$asocial services 000013557 6531_ $$acriminalized women 000013557 6531_ $$acarceral logics 000013557 6531_ $$acarcerality 000013557 6531_ $$aanti-carceral social work 000013557 690__ $$aCrown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice 000013557 691__ $$aCrown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Research Publications 000013557 7001_ $$1https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7749-0791$$2ORCID$$aMurray, Carly Mychl$$uUniversity of Chicago 000013557 7001_ $$aMartinez, Samantha A.$$uUniversity of Chicago 000013557 7001_ $$aCinque, Alexa$$uUniversity of Chicago 000013557 7001_ $$1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9346-9718$$2ORCID$$aSohn, Yejin$$uUniversity of Chicago 000013557 7001_ $$1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-1688$$2ORCID$$aNewton, Grace$$uUniversity of Chicago 000013557 773__ $$tSocial Sciences 000013557 8564_ $$9b583e784-e0e8-48d4-afa1-6f99f46f39b8$$ePublic$$s319564$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/13557/files/We-Owe-It-to-Those-Who-Shall-Come-after-Us.pdf 000013557 908__ $$aI agree 000013557 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:13557$$pGLOBAL_SET 000013557 983__ $$aArticle