A Starting Place for Abolitionist Thinkers and Advocates for Radical Transformative Justice
Alternatives to Calling the Police
- Alternatives to Calling the Police
- “What To Do Instead of Calling the Police” by Aaron Rose
- “Don’t Be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks”
- “12 Things to do Instead of Calling the Cops: A Zine”
- Deescalation and Intervention Webinar
Transformative Justice
- “What is/isn’t transformative justice?” by adrienne maree brown
- Transformative Justice examples + alternative practices via The Abolitionist Toolkit by Critical Resistance
Reading Lists
- Revolutionary Reading List
- Leftist Resource Sheet (Terms, Definitions, Theories)
Podcasts
- Revolutionary Left Radio
- Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
- The Red Nation
- The Practices We Need: #metoo and Transformative Justice Part 2
Radical Literature Audiobooks via Dessalines
- “Blackshirts and Reds” by Michael Parenti
- “Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern” by J. Sakai
- “Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth” by Michael Parenti
- “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation” by Anne Helen Petersen
- “Women's Liberation: The Marxist Tradition” by Sharon Smith
- “The State and Revolution”
Abolitionist Reading List (most resources via Abolitionist Futures)
Introduction to Penal Abolition
- “Are Prisons Obsolete?” By Angela Davis
- “What is the PIC? What is Abolition?”
- “Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists”
- “What Does Justice Look Like Without Prisons? By Oonagh Ryder”
- “From Military Industrial Complex to Prison Industrial Complex” by Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- “Considering Abolition” by Mike Larsen
- “Prison Reform Misdirection: 5 Caveats About Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration” by Kay Whitlock
- “Imagining a Landscape Without Prisons” by City on a Hill Press
Why Reform Isn’t Enough
- “What Abolitionists Do” by Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein
- “Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Liberals, Guns and The Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion”
- “The Tension Between Abolition and Reform” by Liat Ben-Mosche
- “Police ‘Reforms’ You Should Always Oppose” by Mariame Kaba
- “Against Rehabilitation: For Reparative Justice” by Professor Pat Carlen
- “Don’t Reform Prisons, Abolish Them” by Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- “The Economy of Incarceration” by Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- “Protection Without Police” by Victoria Law
- “Prisons cannot be places of rehabilitation” by J M Moore
- “Punitive, Restorative, and Transformative Justice: The Basics”
- “Transformative Justice and Community Accountability”
- “Restorative or transformative justice?” by Howard Zehr
Feminist, Queer, and Antiracist Approaches to Abolition
- “The Critical Resistance— Incite! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex”
- “Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies: Lessons from the Black Women’s Movement in Britain” by Julia Sudbury
- “How Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist” by Beth E. Richie
- “Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex” by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
- “Navigating justice for sexual abuse survivors, when you’re a prison abolitionist and a survivor” by Joshua Briond
- “Decolonization Means Prison Abolition” from Because We Must
- “Vikki Law: Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons”
- “The Violence of Incarceration” by Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch
- “No One Is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition” by Reina Gossett, Dean Spade, and Hope Dector
- “Queering Prison Abolition, Now?” by Eric A. Stanley, Dean Spade, and Queer (In)justice
- “Beautiful, Difficult, Powerful: Ending Sexual Assault Through Transformative Justice” by The Chrysalis Collective
- “What Does It Feel Like When Change Finally Comes: Male Supremacy, Accountability, and Transformative Justice” by Gaurav Jashnani, RJ Maccani, and Alan Greig
- “Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook”
- “The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities”
- “Toward Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and other forms of Intimate and Community Violence” by Generation Five
- “Revolution and American Indians: Marxism Is As Alien To My Culture As Capitalism” by Russell Means
Community Organizing
- “Resources for Organizing”
Other Abolitionist Readings Lists via Abolitionist Futures
- “Black Perspectives: Prison Abolition Syllabus”
- “Prison Culture: Essential Reading”
- “Community Accountability and Transformative Justice Resources”
- “Thinking Through the End of Policing”
- “Alternatives to Policing”
- “Addressing Harm, Accountability, and Healing”
- “Abolish Policing” by Critical Resistance
- “Against Equality: Queer Challenges to the Politics of Inclusion”
Abolition in Minnesota
MPD150: A People’s Project Evaluating Policing
- A 150 Year Performance Review of the Minneapolis Police Department (PDF)
- A 150 Year Performance Review of the Minneapolis Police Department (Audio version)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- FAQs: PDF/Zine Version