Omnia Journal

Editorial

Victor F. Toledo — 2025-08-21

EL The scientific quality of the forensic social report.

Claudia Krmpotic — 2025-08-21

The article addresses the scientific nature of Social Work with a practical horizon. Its problematization has direct implications for Forensic Social Work, a speciality widely recognized among non‑legal professions within the administration of justice and government. It discusses aspects related to reasoning methods and knowledge production for diagnostic purposes. Specifically, the scientific requirements for preparing forensic social reports are analyzed, gathering essential elements compiled and integrated by the author and expressed concisely in a self‑assessment tool on consistency, methodological validity, and minimum ethical standards of forensic social reports. From a hermeneutic approach, results from the author's research, bibliographic sources, and exchanges and learnings derived from various professional training experiences are reviewed.

Epistemologically assessing the complexity of forensic social work

Leonardo Gabriel Rodriguez Zoya — 2025-08-21

This paper aims to think epistemologically about the complexity of forensic social work. In order to achieve the proposed objective, the argumentative strategy is organized as follows. First, we develop the theoretical and conceptual foundation of an epistemological meta‑model for thinking about science and knowledge. This meta‑model analyzes and integrates the concepts of “truth game”, developed by Michel Foucault; the concept of epistemic framework, developed in the field of constructivist epistemology by Jean Piaget and Rolando García, and the concept of paradigm proposed by Edgar Morin in the development of his philosophy of complex thought. Second, the epistemological meta‑model is used to analyze three conceptions of science: the scientistic model, the postmodern model and the complex model. Finally, we epistemologically analyze the practices of forensic social work in the prism of the meta‑model and the three conceptualized epistemological models.

Contributions to a historical and critical review of the antecedents of forensic social work through the study of the life and work of one of its pioneers: Florence Kelley. Its current validity

Bibiana Travi — 2025-08-21

If we consider that the reconstruction of a historical event is always an unfinished task, a product of questions and challenges generated by each context, reviewing and revisiting the contribution of pioneers who played a fundamental role in the construction of our disciplinary field is a triple commitment to make visible and rescue from oblivion the work of exceptional women, it is an act of epistemic justice, it is a way of contributing to the strengthening of our professional identity.

It is an opportunity to publicize the work of relevant figures from their own voice, through primary sources, their legacy and written production.

After contextually situating relevant fragments of the life and work of Florence Kelley, the analysis of three texts produced within the framework of her research, her professional and political practice will be presented. These are works of absolute validity today and an exemplary model for future generations.

Finally, reflections and possible openings are presented in relation to the usefulness of research and diagnoses as elements of evidence in trials, as well as on issues at the methodological, technical-instrumental and scriptural levels, and which may be the subject of further studies.

Los Forensic social reports as a writing intervention that produces meanings

Andrés Ponce de León — 2025-08-21

Forensic social reports are written intervention processes deployed by colleagues in their institutional spaces. In addition to constituting descriptive documents of social situations present in files and records, they are the written expression of an interventionist intention that seeks, through relevant information, to influence an operator’s decision‑making by shaping, expanding, or modifying their convictions on a matter or topic, in a certain direction rather than another.

This academic essay presents aspects to consider in order to reach consensus (always revisable) and provide this instrument with greater scientific validity, as required by the courts. The results of the research on twenty‑three (23) forensic social reports submitted by social workers from the Argentine provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén are presented. The analysis includes structural characteristics (nomination, demand, reason for intervention, and methodology), and analyzes qualitative contributions regarding the mediation and arbitration functions of social conflict.

The aim is to highlight the scientific qualities based on methodological rigor and the theoretical foundation of professional decisions, considering theory and methodology as pillars of the scientific work required by forensic work.

Prejudice and prestige: the obstacles of research in the social sciences.

Roberto Eduardo Camardelli Carrasco — 2025-08-21

The essay reflects on the obstacles to research in social sciences such as sociology and forensic social work. It raises the complexity of the object of study in the social sciences while exploring the significance of community value judgements, such as prejudice and prestige, in the work of the social researcher. This article describes the challenges that the social sciences have faced since their origins under the predominance of a positivist perspective and highlights the need to develop alternative approaches to social reality in order to deepen our understanding of community thought and behavior as part of a complex process of intellectual and scientific evolution. It analyzes the sociological dilemmas raised by Giddens within the framework of contemporary scientific debates about how societies are interpreted and studied. The article underscores the issues of context extrapolation and the loss of critical insight in scientific interpretations of social evaluations, which can lead to the esteem or devaluation of individuals. Finally, it reflects on Morin’s concept of “blind intelligence” and the dangers of ideological bias in social research, while also questioning how the contemporary interpretation of postmodern uncertainty implies a reductionist new order of sociocultural diversity.

Reseña del libro Matices y variaciones del trabajo social forense¸ vol. 3, de Krmpotic, C. y Ponce de León, A. (Comps.) .

María Florencia Zuzulich — 2025-08-21

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