Abstract
ABSTRACT The institutions of social work and policing have overlapped substantially in the history of the United States; contemporarily, they are being offered up as a popular policing reform. During the 1970s, social work professor Harvey Treger and his team conducted a pilot intervention with police in the Chicago suburbs of Niles and Wheaton, IL. Ultimately, manifestations of social control – persuading or coercing populations deemed problematic – emerged in the collaboration of police officers and social workers. Driven by the disproportionate influence of police officers in the pilot, the program expanded state power via gendered power dynamics.
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