Session 4: Transformative Justice
2018-2021 Core Readings
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (2014) ‘Transformative Justice and Community Accountability’ [1 page]
Aorta Collective (2013) ‘Punitive, Restorative & Transformative Justice: The basics’ [2 pages]
Chrysalis Collective (2011) Beautiful, Difficult, Powerful: Ending Sexual Assault Through Transformative Justice. In: Chen, C.-I., Dulani, J. and Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L. (eds.) The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. Brooklyn, NY: South End Press, pp.188-205. [18 pages]
GenerationFive (2017) ‘Community Response and Accountability’ & ‘Transformation of Community and Social Conditions that Create and Perpetuate Violence’ in Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook, p. 56-61 [Online]. [6 pages]
Further reading:
If you’re joining an Abolitionist Futures reading group for the second time, we recommend you read these instead of the core readings.
Gaurav
Jashnani
and RJ Maccani and Alan Greig (2011) What does it feel like when change finally comes? Male Supremacy, Accountability & Transformative Justice. In: Chen, C.-I., Dulani, J. and Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L. (eds.) The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. Brooklyn, NY: South End Press, pp.216-234. [22 pages]
Aisha Shahida
Simmons
(2019) Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse. AK Press [ebook $1.99)
Ejeris
Dixon
and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2020) Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. AK Press.[ebook $1.99]