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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...