MSW-6105

Maschi, T., & Leibowitz, G. S. (2017). Forensic social work: Psychosocial and legal issues across diverse populations and settings (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

Morrison, M. (2024). The mass incarceration trauma framework: A conceptual model for understanding trauma among individuals who experience incarceration.Social Work, 69(1), 8–16.
This article discusses a framework that presents the cumulative trauma exposures commonly faced by this population before, during, and after incarceration at the individual, social, environmental, and historical levels. This is essential to interventions for this population address both the ongoing risk for trauma exposure and the consequences of multiple, repeated past exposures across ecological systems.

Lea III, C. H., Mohr, G., McCarter, S. A., Coughlin, S. B., Gottlieb, A., Partlow, B. S., Mathews, K. S., & McLeod, B. A. (2022). Promote smart decarceration and eliminate racism grand challenges for social work: Reimagining marijuana policy. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 49(2), 27–63.
This article uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) to interrogate how marijuana-related policies and practices perpetuate collateral consequences and racial disparities in mass incarceration and recidivism to uncover the ways in which they challenge efforts to promote smart decarceration and eliminate racism.

Kita, E. (2019). They hate me now but where was everyone when I needed them?: Mass incarceration, projective identification, and social work praxis. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 26(1), 25–49.
In this article, the author argues that mass incarceration serves an important psychological function for society related to anxieties about racial and economic inequality and, as such, we continue to invest in mass incarceration despite its failure.