Readings & Other Media
The BATJC is often asked for resources to learn more about transformative justice, abolition, and community accountability. Below is a curated, ever-growing, non-exhaustive list of readings and other media that we turn to in our own work. They range in topics and focuses–first hand experiences, big picture transformative justice and abolitionist writings, and practical skills. Please read and share them widely, and be sure to lend proper attribution to the creators of all the content.
Articles, Essays, & Zines:
- 6 Ways to Confront Your Friend Who’s Abusing Their Partner | Thom
- A Mother’s Son: Breaking the Cycle of Racial-Sexual Violence | Greene
- A World Without Walls (pages 5-7) | Bassichis, Hernandez, Jashnani, Kim, Maccani, Peters-Golden, Porzig
- Abolition Cannot Wait: Visions for Transformation and Radical World-Building | Agbebiyi, Hamid, Kuo, Mohapatra
- Accountability Road Map | Philly Stands Up
- Beautiful, Difficult, Powerful: Ending Sexual Assault Through Transformative Justice | Chrysalis Collective
- Big Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future | Herzing
- Building a Police Free Future: Frequently Asked Questions | MPD150
- Community Accountability Within People of Color Progressive Movements | INCITE!
- Furthering Transformative Justice, Building Healthy Communities: An Interview with Philly Stands Up | Holtzman, Van Meter
- How I Became a Police Abolitionist | Purnell
- Inside the Politics and Poetics of Transformative Justice and Community Accountability in Sexual Assault Situations | Kelly
- Love with Accountability: A Mother’s Lament & A Daughter’s Postscript | Simmons, Simmons
- Organizing for Community Accountability | INCITE!
- Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet | BATJC
- Police Abolition 101: Messages When Facing Doubts | Project NIA
- Portrait of Praxis | Philly Stands Up!
- Reconciling Rage and Compassion: The Unfolding #MeToo Moment for Junot Diaz | de León
- Standing Up for Our Communities: Why We Need a Police-Free Future (Herzing)
- Taking Risks | CARA)
- The House Where They Live | Jennifer Gonnerman
- The Secret Joy of Self Accountability | Perez-Darby
- The Sentencing of Larry Nassar Was Not ‘Transformative Justice.’ Here’s Why | Hayes, Kaba
- Transformative Justice: A Brief Description | Mingus
- Transformative Justice/Community Accountability One-Page Summary | BATJC
- Transforming Harm Summary Statement Re: Community Accountability Process (March 2017) | BYP100
- We Have Already Stopped Calling the Cops | Stahl
- What About the Rapists | Interrupting Criminalization
- What Does it Feel Like When Change Finally Comes? | Greig, Jashnani, Maccani
- What is the PIC? What is Abolition? | Critical Resistance
- What We Mean When We Say Abolish Prisons | Agbebiyi
- What’s Next? Safer and More Just Communities Without Policing | Interrupting Criminalization
- Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police | Kaba
- You Can’t End Violence With More Violence: Shifting From Incarceration to Accountability | Kaba, Hassan
Books & Toolkits:
- tbA Restorative Conversations Toolkit
- Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care
- Are Prisons Obsolete
- Beyond Survival
- Creating A Transformative Justice Informed Sexual Harassment Protocol
- Creative Interventions Toolkit
- Fumbling Toward Repair
- Get In Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit
- Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
- Love With Accountability
- Mapping Ecosystems of Collective Care
- My Transformative Justice Workbook
- No More Police: A Case for Abolition
- Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies
- Queering Sexual Violence
- Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence
- Secret Survivors Toolkit
- The End of Policing
- The Revolution Starts at Home
- Transformative Justice Knows No Borders
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us
Video:
- Building Accountable Communities (multi-video series) | Barnard
- Caregivers & Kids Building Communities of Care | Project NIA
- In Our Own Hands: Talking Transformative Justice & Abolition with Children | Project NIA
- Transforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability (multi-video series) | Barnard
- On the Road With Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the Way | Haymarket Books, Critical Resistance, Project NIA, Survived and Punished, Reclaim the Block, and Black Visions Collective
Audio:
- Community Responds to Domestic Violence | STOP
- He Korero Iti: A Small Story | STOP
- Mingus on Transformative Justice | We Rise
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition | Intercepted
- Standing In the Gap | Living Bridges Project
- Stories for Power Podcast | Creative Interventions (Deana Lewis)
- The Registry | Snap Judgment
- What Was Lost | Living Bridges Project
