@article{Emprechtinger:15443,
      recid = {15443},
      author = {Emprechtinger, Julia and Richter, Marina},
      title = {Prison social work and the risk security system : insights  from swiss correctional facilities},
      publisher = {University of Wuppertal},
      journal = {Social Work & Society},
      address = {Wuppertal. 2024-06},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      pages = {14 p.},
      abstract = {Social work’s role in managing the risk of recidivism is  increasing in the Swiss penal system. With data from a  qualitative study in two Swiss correctional facilities  collected during 2019-2020, this article shows that prison  social work has a triple role encompassing voluntary social  assistance, tasks in relation to the execution of a  sentence, and – in the focus of this article – relatively  new tasks in line with the risk-minimizing reasoning in  prisoner rehabilitative work. The risk-oriented approach,  however, is conceptualized under the definitional power of  forensic psychology, which assigns social work a  subordinate, executing role. While issues of motivating  involuntary clients to offence-centred work are intensely  discussed in social workers’ reasoning regarding the  risk-oriented work, critically questioning social work’s  role in the tension between care and control is less  evident in the data. We argue that to strengthen the  profession’s positioning in the risk-minimizing set of  tasks of carceral institutions, a broader interdisciplinary  discourse within it is necessary which requires a clear and  convincing statement of social work on its possible  theoretical and methodical contribution in individual case  work as well as on the level of the system as a whole.},
      url = {http://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/15443},
}