The new call for papers from the journal Welfare & Ergonomia, edited by Alberto Pesce and Veronica Valenti, is dedicated to “Investing in the care of social reintegration for incarcerated individuals: trends and new perspectives of Italian welfare.”

Proposals may be submitted by March 29, 2024, by sending an abstract of approximately 3,000 characters (including spaces).

All information is available in the call.

Welfare & Ergonomia is a Class A journal (Anvur), published by Franco Angeli, based on an editorial project and direction by IRPPS (thanks to researcher Antonella Ciocia).

By way of example, contributions for this edition may cover:

• social and health aspects resulting from overcrowding at both collective and individual levels;
• the importance of maintaining emotional and family ties in prison to gather suggestions for reform perspectives;
• the mutual relationship between forms of restorative justice and social reintegration;
• the importance of educational paths and professional training in prison;
• the analysis of Italian or European best practices aimed at promoting training, placement, and employment;
• the analysis of traditional welfare models and their implementation regarding persons deprived of liberty, with attention also to new models or policies concerning inmates or former inmates;
• the analysis of legislation and jurisprudence regarding the social and professional reintegration of inmates;
• a critical analysis of the role of local authorities, social private organizations, and the private sector in ensuring training, placement, and employment;
• the analysis of local best practices or those piloted in individual penal institutions;
• the analysis of factors leading to recidivism:
• the analysis of state and regional spending aimed at promoting social and professional integration paths;
• the treatment of inmates nearing release at the end of their sentence;
• the impact of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence or neuroscience, on the social and professional reintegration of incarcerated individuals.

The journal Welfare&Ergonomia has opened the call for papers n.2, 2023 “Youth Beyond Stereotypes”.

The changes that have characterized Western societies in recent decades have contributed to creating a world in continuous and rapid evolution in which generations incessantly modify living conditions, needs, and motivations. In particular, it has been the youth population above all that has shown the most visible evolutionary trends compared to the past from a demographic, economic, social, and cultural point of view. In the first three areas, many studies have highlighted the impact on new generations; in the fourth, namely that concerning cultural aspects, analyses have instead often stopped at the description of phenomena, but attempts at critical reflection on youth culture, as an effect of structural or social transformations, are rather lacking, and it is to these latter aspects that the call intends to respond.

Potential authors for this issue of Welfare e Ergonomia are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 3,000 characters by April 12, 2023.

For more information:

Welfare e Ergonomia – Italian call; English call.