Jorge Manuel Vacas García

In permanently introducing this new section to our periodical, we wish to call the reader’s attention to a unique approach we are consciously taking. In a desire to identify impending foci in our field, we have invited the youngest of our colleagues – MA and PhD candidates in social work – to act as our reviewers. Furthermore, considering the vast multitude of scholarly articles published annually, we have asked our students to primarily focus on this segment which is more likely to reflect the most recent findings. That said, we have not set a strict date range in the hope that our reviewers will freely discover or recover studies which might have been overlooked heretofore.

Ghelani, A. (2021). Knowledge and Skills for Social Workers on Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams. Clinical Social Work Journal, 1-12.
Reviewed by Jorge García Vacas

Pollack, S. (2004). Anti-oppressive social work practice with women in prison: Discursive reconstructions and alternative practices. British Journal of Social Work, 34(5), 693-707.
Reviewed by Ainoa Marin Risquez

Mathebane S. M., Sekudu J. (2018). A contrapuntal epistemology for social work: An Afrocentric perspective. International Social Work. 61(6): 1154-1168.
Reviewed by De Block Elisa

 Lynne M. Healy (2014). Global education for social work: old debates and future directions for international social work. Global Social Work: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries, 27,369-380.
Reviewed by Chiara Antico

Matejkowski, J., Johnson, T., & Severson, M. (2014). Prison Social Work. Encyclopedia of Social Work.
Reviewed by Xènia Núñez Andrés

Sociological reflections based on the film “La haine” (Hate), directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and released in 1995, whose plot takes place over the next twenty-four hours of a night of riots and heavy clashes with police in a slum on the outskirts of Paris, in which the protagonists, three teenagers, walk the streets in an atmosphere of violence between gangs and constant conflicts with the police.