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Record W4417332980 · doi:10.1080/10428232.2025.2603798

Can Social Work Be Abolitionist?

2025· article· en· W4417332980 on OpenAlexaff
Maya Pendleton, Alan J. Dettlaff

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Progressive Human Services · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Work Education and Practice
Canadian institutionsCentre for Movement Disorders
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial workSocial changeSocial positionSocial philosophySocial orderSocial relationSocial engagementWork (physics)

Abstract

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This paper questions whether social work, traditionally associated with social control and behavior modification within carceral systems, can align with the broader goals of abolitionism. Abolitionism, rooted in the dismantling of oppressive structures and the pursuit of liberation, challenges conventional approaches to social work. To break from the carceral logic of current social work practice, social workers must build new ways of practicing. Consequently, radical social workers have pushed social work as a profession toward abolitionist leanings. This paper continues an exploration of these ideas and reevaluates the role(s) social work can play in working toward a liberated society.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.019
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.026
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.102

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0190.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0130.120
Scholarly communication0.0120.013
Open science0.0020.014
Research integrity0.0060.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.413
Teacher spread0.380 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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