Pessimistic Police Abolition
Vol. 136 No. 4
Introduction: Abolition’s Second Premise The movement for police abolition seeks to eliminate, or massively downsize, American policing. Mariame Kaba’s Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish...
Prison Abolition
The Dangerous Few: Taking Seriously Prison Abolition and Its Skeptics
Vol. 135 No. 8
Prison abolition, in the span of just a few short years, has established a foothold in elite criminal legal discourse. But the basic question...
Unearthing Original Disputes in Criminal Adjudication
Vol. 135 No. 2
Criminal prosecution is rampant within the United States. Politicians, legal scholars, and activists have cried for reform or abolition. Some of those cries have...
Prosecuting in the Police-less City: Police Abolition’s Impact on Local Prosecutors
Vol. 134 No. 5
What good is a prosecutor without police? On June 26, 2020, that question gained unexpected importance when the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a...
Penal Abolitionism and Criminal Law Minimalism: Here And There, Now And Then
Responding to Dorothy E. Roberts, Abolition Constitutionalism
Response to Abolition Constitutionalism
Vol. 133 No. 9
Abolition Constitutionalism
Vol. 133 No. 1
Slavery has been fruitful in giving itself names . . . and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form...
Immigration Detention and Abolition
Prison abolitionism has gained traction. Louisiana, for example, has taken steps recently to reduce the population of the state’s prisons. In June 2017, the...
Abolition as Praxis of Human Being: A Foreword
Vol. 132 No. 6
I. The Long Abolitionist Project What are the historical conditions and political imperatives of “abolition” as a contemporary praxis? How does abolition generate a...
Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability
Vol. 132 No. 6
The historical context of abolition is minimally understood, either in today’s social movements or in U.S. society more broadly. For our political strategies and...
In Spite of Prison
Vol. 132 No. 6
How does a former gang-banging, gun-toting Latino serving a thirty-year prison sentence, the product of an elderly uneducated immigrant father and a drug-addicted mother,...