Police
- Abolition is Not Merely A Demand, But A Long-Term Struggle
- Abolish the Police Industrial Complex (pdf)
- Abolishing the police and prisons is a lot more practical than critics claim
- Abolition of Policing Workshop
- Building A Police-Free Future: FAQ (pdf)
- Critical Resistance’s Abolish Policing Organizer Toolkit
- Policing Timeline
- Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing (pdf)
- The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
- To Stop Police Violence We Need Better Questions - And Bigger Demands
- Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
Prison
- Abolish Immigration Prisons
- Abolition for the People Compilation
- Abolition NOW! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
- An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide
- Beyond Bars: Prison Abolition Should Be the American Dream
- Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview with Rachel Herzing
- Close Rikers NOW, We Keep Us Safe (pdf)
- From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women-Of-Color Feminism and Alternatives to Incarceration
- Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
- Prison Abolition and Prefiguring the World You Want to Live In
- Prison Abolition Resource Guide
- Thinking about how to abolish prisons with Mariame Kaba
- Towards Abolition: A Learning and Action Guide for Public Health
- What Abolitionists Do
- What About the Dangerous People?
- What is Abolition, and Why Do We Need It?
- What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants
The Sexual Violence Question
- Don’t Use Domestic Violence Victims to Derail Police Reform
- How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition with #MeToo?
- I Was Sexually Assaulted. And I Believe Incarcerating Rapists Doesn’t Help Victims Like Me
- If We Abolish Police, What Happens to Rapists?
- Locking People Up Doesn’t Make Us Safer, Abuse Survivor Says
- Surviving Rape as a Prison Abolitionist
- There’s A Reliable Therapy for Sex Offenders — But Nobody Wants Them to Get It
- Toward Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and Other Forms of Intimate and Community Violence
- What About the Rapists?
- “What About ‘the Sex Offenders’? Addressing Sexual Harm from An Abolitionist Perspective
- What is Restorative Justice? A Different Path for Confronting Sexual Assault
Toolkits and Action
- Community Accountability for Survivors of Sexual Violence Toolkit
- Community Accountability within the People of Color Progressive Movement
- Communities Engaged in Resisting Violence
- Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation and Practical Guide for Everyone to Stop Violence
- Critical Resistance’s Abolish Policing Organizer Toolkit
- Decoupling Policing from Emergency Preparedness
- Girls Do What They Have to Do to Survive: Illuminating Methods Used by Girls in the Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back and Heal
- How to Stop a Jail in Your Town
- If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide
- It Takes a Village, People: Advocacy, Friends, and Family, & LGBT Survivors of Abuse
- Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacebuilding
- Philly Stands Up Portrait of Praxis: An Anatomy of Accountability
- “Policing is a Public Health Issue” Organizer Pamphlet + Worksheet (pdf)
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project Collective Member Handbook
- Toward Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and Other Forms of Intimate and Community Violence
Books
- A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
- All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence by Emily L. Thurma
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
- Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie
- Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives by Donna Murch
- Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons by Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
- Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State by Stephen Dillon
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
- My Comrades’ Thoughts on Black Lives Matter: A Collection of Essays and Poems by Incarcerated Activists by United Black Family Editorial Collective
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
Resources & Organizations
- 8 To Abolition
- 100 Resources to Educate Yourself on Black Oppression, Injustice, and Everyday Experiences
- All of Us or None
- Appalshop/ Calls from Home
- Barrios Unidos
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- Californians United for a Responsible Budget
- Campaign Zero
- Communities United Against Police Brutality
- Crimmigration
- Defund Police Toolkit
- Defund Police, Rebuild Our Communities
- Defund the Police Resource Hub
- Disband, Disempower, and Disarm: Amplifying the Theory and Practice of Police Abolition
- Eastside Arts Alliance
- For A World Without Police
- Free the SF8
- Freedom Archives
- Insecure: Policing Under Racial Capitalism
- Interrupting Criminalization
- Justice Now
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Mapping Police Violence
- Mothers Against Police Brutality
- Police Abolition
- Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition
- Southern California Library
- Stop the Injunctions Coalition
- StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP)
- TGI Justice Project
- The End of Policing
- Transform Harm
- Stop Urban Shield
- Xicana Moratorium Coalition
- Youth Justice Coalition
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