Transformative Justice and Activism for Envisioning a World without Prisons

Popular Press

• Janak, J. (2022, Mar. 10). Abolitionist efforts to transgress the prison walls. Hood Communist. https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/03/10/abolitionist-efforts-to-trangress-the-prison-walls/
• Kushner, R. (2019, Apr. 17). Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind. The New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html

Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed

• Dominguez, D. (2022). Abolitionist feminism, liberation psychology, and Latinx migrant womxn. Women & Therapy, 45(2-3), 207-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2097595
• Gready, P., & Robins, S. (2014). From transitional to transformative justice: A new agenda for practice. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 8(3), 339–361. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676028
• Heiner, B. T., & Tyson, S. K. (2017). Feminism and the carceral state: Gender-responsive justice, community accountability, and the epistemology of antiviolence. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2016.3.3
• Kim, M.E. (2018). From carceral feminism to transformative justice: Women-of-color feminism and alternatives to incarceration. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 27(3), 219-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2018.1474827
• Lawston, J. M., & Meiners, E. R. (2014). Ending our expertise: Feminists, scholarship, and prison abolition. Feminist Formations, 26(2), 1-25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43860740.pdf
• Michalsen, V. (2019). Abolitionist feminism as prisons close: Fighting the racist and misogynist surveillance “child welfare” system. The Prison Journal, 99(4), 504–511. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032885519852091
• O’Brien, P., Kim, M., Beck, E., & Bhuyan, R. (Eds.). (2020). Anticarceral feminisms: Imagining a world without prisons [Special issue]. Affilia, 35(1). https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/affa/35/1
• Palacios, L. (2016). Challenging convictions: Indigenous and Black race-radical feminists theorizing the carceral state and abolitionist praxis in the United States and Canada. Meridians, 15(1), 137-165. https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.1.08

Books

• Abolition Collective. (2020). Making abolitionist worlds: Proposals for a world on fire. Common Notions.
• Ben-Moshe, L. (2020). Decarcerating disability: Deinstitutionalization and prison abolition. University of Minnesota Press.
• Bierria, A., Caruthers, J., & Lober, B. (Eds.).(2022). Abolition feminisms, vol. 1: Organizing, survival, and transformative practice. Haymarket Books.
• Bierria, A., Caruthers, J., & Lober, B. (Eds.). (2022). Abolition feminisms, vol. 2: Feminist ruptures against the carceral state. Haymarket Books.
• Bradley, G., & de Noronha, L. (2022). Against borders: The case for abolition. Verso Books.
• Crawley, A. (2022). Meditations on abolition. Haymarket Books.
• Dixon, E., & Piepzna-Samarasinha, L.L. (Eds.). (2020). Beyond survival: Strategies and stories from the transformative justice movement. AK Press. 
• Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective. (2021). Lessons in liberation: An abolitionist toolkit for educators. AK Press.
• Eisenstein, Z. (2019). Abolitionist socialist feminism: Radicalizing the next revolution. Monthly Review Press.
• Gilmore, R. W. (2022). Abolition geography: Essays towards liberation. Verso Books.
• Gilmore, R. W. (2021). Change everything: Racial capitalism and the case for abolition. Haymarket Books. 
• Hayes, K., & Kaba, M. (2023). Let this radicalize you: Organizing and the revolution of reciprocal care. Haymarket Books.
• Kaba, M. (2021). We do this ‘til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Haymarket Books.
• Kaba, M., & Ritchie, A. (2022). No more police: A case for abolition. The New Press.
• Purnelle, D. (2021). Becoming abolitionists: Police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom. Astra Press.
• Richie, B.E., Davis, A.Y., et al. (2021). Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket Books.
• Ricordeau, G. (2023). Free them all: A feminist call to abolish the prison system. Verso Press.
• Vitale, A.S. (2017). The end of policing. Verso Press.