Statutory social work is in the business of risk work. The work involves decision making about risky events and situations and yet we know very little about how this operates in an everyday practical sense. The risk work associated with terrorism and radicalisation concerns best illustrates this. The PREVENT statutory duty was sanctioned mid 2015 for a range of UK professionals, including social workers, to pay ‘due regard to preventing terrorism’. The duty has contributed to a recalibration of statutory social work practice, towards practices such as counter terrorist policing and security services. Social workers are caught up in ‘anticipatory risk work’ and find themselves working in a ‘pre-crime’ space. This is now an everyday practice issue, with practitioners required to help to ‘offset’ terrorist crime. To date, this recalibration has lacked critical debate by and for social workers. This editorial examines the ethical and practical implications for practitioners and families affected by claims of ‘radicalisation risk’ and ‘extremism risk’ to extend our risk thinking and offer new practical and ethical approaches to risk work. To do so, the article engages with new forms of theorising offered in this special edition. The article concludes with a set of practical and ethics-oriented suggestions for refining risk work in the area of radicalisation and extremism.

法定社会工作属于风险工作。这项工作涉及对风险事件和情况的决策，但是我们对这种行为在日常实践中的运作方式知之甚少。与恐怖主义和激进化问题有关的风险工作最能说明这一点。PREVENT的法定职责于2015年中期被制裁，要求包括英国社会工作者在内的一系列英国专业人员支付“适当考虑到的预防恐怖主义”。这项职责有助于重新调整法定的社会工作惯例，以打击反恐警务和安全服务等惯例。社会工作者陷入“预期风险工作”，发现自己在“犯罪前”的空间工作。现在，这已成为日常事务，需要从业人员帮助“抵消”恐怖主义犯罪。至今，对于社会工作者而言，这种重新校准还缺乏关键的辩论。这篇社论探讨了受到“激进风险”和“极端主义风险”影响的从业人员和家庭的道德和实践意义，以扩展我们的风险思维，并为风险工作提供新的实践和道德方法。为此，本文采用了此特别版中提供的新的理论形式。本文最后提出了一系列实用和注重道德的建议，以完善激进主义和极端主义领域的风险工作。本文探讨了此特别版中提供的新的理论形式。本文最后提出了一系列实用和注重道德的建议，以完善激进主义和极端主义领域的风险工作。本文探讨了此特别版中提供的新的理论形式。本文最后提出了一系列实用和注重道德的建议，以完善激进主义和极端主义领域的风险工作。