police abolition and transformative justice educational materials
a small beginner’s reading list on transformative justice, police abolition, and prison abolition. feel free to add whatever else is relevant/useful. the gist of it is the same as what you’ve already seen on social media (hopefully) - social care, community support, and resilient people power need to form the basis of any kind of new justice system we form. let’s educate ourselves and talk about this together.
TW: discussions of sexual violence
lighter reading:
novara media - what does justice look like without prisons?
jacobin magazine - what abolitionists do
heavier reading:
generation five - ending child sexual abuse: a transformative justice handbook
support new york - our accountability process curriculum
what does it feel like when change finally comes: male supremacy, accountability and transformative justice
taking risks: implementing grassroots community accountability strategies (written by a collective of women of colour from communities against rape and abuse [cara]: alisa bierria, onion carrillo, eboni colbert, xandra ibarra, theryn kigvamasud’vashti, and shale maulana)
generation five - a liberatory approach to child sexual abuse and other forms of intimate and community violence
afropunk - navigating justice for sexual abuse survivors, when you’re a prison abolitionist and a survivor
the communes of rojava: a model in societal self-direction (youtube video)
a note: most of these have a common theme of discussing transformative justice in relation to sexual violence, as the most common argument seen in use against prison and police abolition is, entirely understandably, ‘what about the rapists?’. for a wider range of materials, see the reading lists below for further resources:
transformative justice reading list
abolitionist futures reading list
bay area transformative justice collective reading list
please reblog with any additions, read the materials, and share around - since police abolition has very quickly become public discourse over the past few weeks, it’s important that we all know what it’s about and how to achieve it beyond surface-level policies and materials if we want to push for it to truly succeed.
