Session 2: What’s Wrong With Reform?

Core Readings (v. 2022):

Audio versions available on Soundcloud

Berger, Dan and Mariame Kaba and David Stein (2017). ‘What Abolitionists do,’ Jacobinmag.com  [5 pages]

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Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter (2015) Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion  (2015). [first 14mins of Video] The Laura Flanders Show.

Ben-Moshe, L. (2013) The Tension Between Abolition and Reform. In: Nagel, M. E. and Nocella, A. J. (eds.) The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement. Amsterdam: Value Inquriy Book Series, pp.83-92. 

Audio Version

Kaba, Mariame ‘Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose’ Truth-Out. [1 page].

Audio Version

Abolitionist Futures (2020) Reformist Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps for UK Policing [1 page]

 
 
 

Further reading:

Interested in learning more? Check out these additional readings…

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Maya Dukmasova (2016) ‘Abolish the police? Organizers say its less crazy than it seems’.  Chicago Reader. 

Ru & Adam / London Campaign Against Police and State Violence (LCAPSV) (2020) From Minneapolis to London: Who Polices the Police?

Ru & Adam / London Campaign Against Police and State Violence (LCAPSV) (2020) From Minneapolis to London: Who Polices the Police? FreedomNews.org

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2012) ‘Don’t reform prisons, abolish them’. [Video]

Sara Chitseko (2020) Abolition not Reformation. 4Frontproject.org (2 pages)