Often, when we talk about abolition, people want to know what we propose to replace the current injustice system with. In short, the answer is community-based accountability measures such as transformative justice, restorative justice, and healing justice.
What Are These Types of Justice?
Tranformative Justice
- Transformative Justice
- Transformative Justice: A Brief Description
- Transformative Justice Resource Compilation
- Why Transformative Justice?
- On Cancel Culture, Accountability, and Transformative Justice
- How Transformative Justice Responds to Violence Without the Carceral System
- A Roadmap Away From ‘Cancel Culture’ and Towards Transformative Justice
- Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, and Accountability
- Gun Control, Abolition, and Transformative Justice
- Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability and Transformative Justice
Restorative Justice
Healing Justice
Community Accountability
- Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order
- Community Accountability Fact Sheet
- Community Accountability Working Document
- Critical Resistance/INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
- Harm Free Zone Project General Framework
- “Here We Are, Amazingly Alive”: Holding Ourselves Together with an Ethic of Social Justice in Community Work
- Love is the Message of Revolution
- Miklat, Miklat: A Transformative Justice Zine
- Philly’s Pissed: Shifting the Balance of Power in Our Communities
- Points of Unity
- Principles/Concerns/Strategies/Models
- Strategies for Cultivating Community Accountability
- The Revolution Starts at Home
- Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Articles
- 10 Strategies for Cultivating Community Accountability
- Beyond Criminalizing Domestic Violence
- Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation
- How to Give a Good Apology Part 1: The Four Parts of Accountability
- How to Give a Good Apology Part 2: The Apology — The What and the How
- Life Comes From It: Navajo Justice Concepts
- Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet
- Think. Re-think. Accountable Communities
- Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability
Books
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- Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, edited by Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Daneille Sered
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba and Tamara K. Nopper
- We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown
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