Drawing on findings from a Foucauldian-inspired critical discourse analysis, this article examines the hegemonic ways in which social work engages with criminalized women. Utilizing the analytic of governmentality, I explore the construction of criminalized women in contemporary social work discourse and ask how those constructions support and shape practice with criminalized women. Results show that knowledge production in social work serves as a significant site through which the profession draws on, but also resists, carceral logics. I begin by discussing contemporary social work as a form of neoliberal governance. Specifically, I illuminate the ways in which social work is implicated in surveillance and control and how this involvement is obscured under the framework of helping. I then describe how bold counter discourses, such as those offered by abolitionist and anti-carceral thought foster spaces of resistance within the profession. I argue that social work should claim a stance of radical imagination in which we take seriously the calls to abolish the varying manifestations of the carceral state.

本文以福柯式启发性批评话语分析的发现为基础，研究了社会工作与被定罪的妇女打交道的霸权方式。通过对政府性的分析，我探索了当代社会工作话语中被定罪妇女的结构，并询问这些结构如何支持和塑造被定罪妇女的实践。结果表明，社会工作中的知识生产是该职业汲取但抵制职业逻辑的重要场所。我首先讨论作为新自由主义治理形式的当代社会工作。具体来说，我阐述了社会工作与监视和控制有关的方式，以及在帮助的框架下如何掩盖这种参与。然后，我将描述大胆的反话语，诸如废奴主义者和反奴隶制思想所提供的那样，在该行业内形成了抵抗空间。我认为，社会工作应该主张激进的想象力，在这种姿态下，我们认真对待废除患癌状态的各种表现的呼吁。