Criminological Social Work and institutional demand in professional training, 1940-1960: a disputed relationship

Abstract

This article has the purpose of analyzing the elements that guided the reproduction of social work during the first years of its existence in Costa Rica. The research that serves as the basis for this text had as its main methodological resource the analysis of secondary historical sources, as well as the interview with primary sources linked to the profession during the years 1940-1960. At the end of the investigation, it is possible to conclude that the development of a growing public institutionality in the aforementioned decades displaced the intentionality of a pseudo-private School project, whose centrality was placed in a criminological training.