Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1986) No. 22

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Most histories of policing start with the 1829 establishment of London’s Met. This article explores British policing experiments in the quarter century before 1800.

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1984) No. 18

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John Moore provides a brief reflection on last month’s event: Activating the Archives: Prisons, Abolition and Histories of Resistance organised by Martha O’Carroll and Margaret Malloch from the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Superficial reforms will do nothing to end the harms of policing. The Metropolitan Police must be defunded and abolished / Written by John Moore / Published by Verso

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1982) No. 12

Aftermath starts with grief and shock, a violent act that has left many calling for an intensification of the punitive state. Taneja has resisted this and has instead recommitted herself to abolition which for her, ‘in the widest sense and at the cellular level is a word, a world, a choice to make. A resonance to action’

Can the origins of the police help explain why they are beyond reform and need abolishing? In this article John Moore shows how England’s first central government funded police were established to protect the interests of slavers and impose order on the London’s dock workers.