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Language Guide
National Network found itself compelled to craft this guide on appropriate language out of a necessity to reclaim agency over the narrative surrounding our identity. Too often, the discourse about us is dictated by voices outside of our community, particularly academics, who assert authority in determining how we should be spoken of. However, the reality is that we, the members of the National Network, are the true experts on our own experiences and nuances. Read More
Books to Read
Black & Blue
Author: Veronica Gorrie
Abolition.Feminism.Now
Authors: Davis, A, Meiners, E, Ritchie, E, Dent,G
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Written by: Gilmore, RW
Decarcerating Disability
Author: Ben-Moshe, L
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
Authors: Kaba, M & Ritchie, A
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Author: Davis, AY
Archer Magazine "The Incarceration Edition"
Edited by: Lean, T
Introduction to Abolition
So You're Thinking about Becoming an Abolitionist
Written by: Mariame Kaba (2020)
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What is the Prison Industrial Complex? What is Abolition?
Written by: Critical Resistance
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Introduction: Prison Reform or Prison Abolition?
Written by: Angela Davis (2003)
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Diminishing/Dismantling the Prison System
Written by: Prison Research Education Action Project (1976)
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Why Abolition?
Debbie Kilroy: Why we must Abolish the prison system
Written by: Debbie Kilroy (2020) Green Left Weekly Issue 1273
Imagining Abolitionist Futures on 3CR Radial Radio
Written by: Gorrie, N & Gorrie, W (2021)
Abolition Dreaming
Written by: Rule, L(2003)
What’s wrong with reform?
Drawing a Line in the Sand
Written by: Kilroy, D & Lean, T (2024) Croakey Health Media
What Abolitionist do
Written by: Berger, Dan and Mariame Kaba and David Stein (2017) Jacominmag.com
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Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion
Written by: Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter (2015) (First 14mins of video.
The Tension between Abolition and Reform
Written by: Ben-Moshe, L (2013) In Nagel, M.E. and Nocella, A.J. (eds) The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement
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Police "Reform" You should always oppose
Written by: Kaba, Mariame (2014) Truth Out
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Reformist Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps for UK Policing
Written by: Abolitionist Futures (2020)
Feminist, Queer, Antiracist Abolition
Making visible the invisibalised voices of criminalised women in Australia
Written by: Kilroy, D & Lean, T (2022)
Who are the real criminals? Making the case for abolishing criminology
Written by: Watego, C (2021)
Abolition as a decolonial project
Written by: Davis, A Y, Kilroy,D & Lean T (2023) in The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
Written by: Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2008) In: Critical Resistance (ed.) Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex.
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Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies: Lessons from the Black Movement in Britain
Written by: Julia Sudbury (2006) in Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
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How Anti-Violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist
Written by: Beth Richie (2014) FeministWire.org
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Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We've Got
Written by: Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee and Dean Spade (2011) in: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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The false promise of hate crime laws
Written by: S Lamble (2021) AbolitionistFutures.com
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Policing, Anti-Racism & Abolition
A Conversation about Prison Abolition with Boneta-Rie Mabo
Written by: Bowman, J (2020)
Questionable Jurisdiction: Academic Amanda Porter on Policing First Nations
Written by: Porter, A (2021)
Defunding the police and abolishing prisons are not radical ideas
Written by: Oxley, R (2020) in Indigenous X
Incarceration Nation exposes the racist foundations of policing and imprisonment in Australia
Written by: Rule, LA, Brown, L & Ironfield, N (2021) in the Conversation
The Not So Easy, Simple Solution
Written by: Kilroy, D & Lean, T (2022) in Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Volume 30
The System is Not Failing, It is Working to Harm First Nations People
Written by: Roach, V (2022) in Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Volume 30
Defund the Police
Written by: Project NIA
Should I call the Police? Steps to ask yourself before calling the police
Written by: Safety Beyond Police
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Policing by Consent
Written by: Mediocre Dave (2021) in Abolitionist Futures
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Transformative Justice
Transformative Justice and Community Accountability
Written by: Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (2014)
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The modern roots of transformative justice
Written by: Barnard Centre for Research on Women/Project NIA (2020)
What is our bigger vision?
Written by: Creative Interventions Project (2020) in Creative Intervention Toolkit
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Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook
Written by: Generation Five (2017)
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What to do when you've been abusive
Written by: Kai Cheng Thorn (2020) Truthout.org
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Everyday Abolition
Abolition is a Verb
Written by: Kilroy, D, Lean, T, Brooks, A, Lorange A (2021) in Infrastural Inequalities
Imagining a world beyond police and prisons
Written by: Gorrie, N (2020) in GQ
Everyday Practices of Transformative Justice
Written by: Barnard Center for Research on Women (2020)
Practicing Everyday Abolition
Written by: S Lamble (2021) in Abolishing the Police
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Three Key Elements of Mutual Aid
Written by: Dean Spade (2020) in Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this crisis and the next
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Everyday Responses to Everyday Violence
Written by: Ann Russo (2019) in Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
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Pods and Pod-Mapping Worksheet
Written by: Mia Mingus (2020) in Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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