The new call for paper of the magazine Welfare & Ergonomia, edited by Alberto Pesce and Veronica Valenti, is dedicated to “Investing in the social reintegration of prisoners: trends and new perspectives of Italian welfare” .

You can submit your proposal by 29 March 2024, sending an abstract of approximately 3000 characters (including spaces).

All information is available in call document.

Welfare & Ergonomics is a magazine in Class A (Anvur), published by Franco Angeli editore, on the editorial project and direction of IRPPS (thanks to the researcher Antonella Ciocia).

 By way of example, contributions for the edition in question may concern:

• the socio-health aspects resulting from overcrowding both at a collective and individual level;
• the importance of caring for loved ones in prison to gather suggestions with a view to reform;
• the reciprocal relationship between forms of restorative justice and social reintegration;
• the importance of prison education and professional training courses;
• the analysis of best practices Italian or European and aimed at promoting training, placement and job hiring;
• the analysis of traditional welfare models and their implementation towards people deprived of liberty, with attention also to new models or which concern prisoners or former prisoners;
• the analysis of legislation and jurisprudence regarding the social and work reintegration of prisoners;
• the critical analysis of the role of local authorities and private social organizations in guaranteeing training, placement and employment;
• the analysis of best practices territorial or tested in individual penitentiary institutions;
• the analysis of the factors that lead to relapse: 
• the analysis of state and regional spending aimed at promoting social and work inclusion paths;
• the treatment of resigning prisoners who have reached the end of their sentences;
• the impact of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, or neuroscience on the social and work reintegration of detained people.

Magazine Welfare&Ergonomics opened the call for papers n.2, 2023 "Young people beyond stereotypes".

The changes that have characterized the last decades le western companies helped create a world in continuous and very rapid evolution in which generations constantly modify living conditions, needs, motivations. In particular, it was above all the young population that showed the most visible evolutionary trends compared to the past from a demographic, economic, social and cultural point of view. In the first three areas there are many studies that have highlighted the repercussions on the new generations; in the fourth, i.e. that which concerns the cultural aspects, the analyzes have instead often stopped at the description of the phenomena, but the attempts at critical reflection on youth culture, as an effect of structural or social transformations, are rather lacking and it is on these last aspects that the call intends to answer.

Potential authors of this issue of Welfare and Ergonomics are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 12 characters by 2023 April 3000.

For more information:

Welfare and Ergonomics – call Italian; call English .