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Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on Criminology and Criminal Justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven discourses that encourage a vision and practice of new world formations.
List of contents
Abolish Criminology: An IntroductionViviane Saleh-Hanna, Jason M. Williams and Michael J. Coyle
Criminology: Violent Ideologies and Ripple Effects across Place and Time
- A Call for Wild Seed Justice
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
- Unwanted: Epistemic Erasure of Black Radical Possibility in Criminology
Jason M. Williams
- The History of Criminology is a History of White Supremacy
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
- The History of Criminal Justice as the Academic Arm of State Violence
Brian Pitman, Stephen T. Young and Ryan Phillips
Criminology: Systemic Violence Against Lands, Minds, and Bodies
- The White Racialized Center of Criminology
Holly Sims-Bruno
- Evolving Standards
Derrick Washington
- Trans Black Women Deserve Better: Expanding Queer Criminology to Unpack Trans Misogynoir in the field of Criminology
Toniqua Mikell
- American Indians, Settler-State Racism, and Complicit Criminology
Brian T. Broadrose
- Barrio Criminology: Chicanx and Latinx Prison Abolition
Xuan Santos, Oscar F. Soto, Martin J. Leyva and Christopher Bickel
Interrogating Criminology and Locating Abolition in Areas we are Trained to Overlook
- Science and Biology Entangled: Education as a Meeting Point
Charlemya Erasme
- Abolish the Courthouse: Uncovering the Space of "Justice" in a Black Feminist Criminal Trial
Vanessa Lynn Lovelace
- Marxist Criminology Abolishes Lombroso, Marxist Criminology Abolishes Itself
Erin Katherine Krafft
- Abolition Now: Counter-Images and Visual Criminology
Michelle Brown
- Civil Lies
Tatiana Lopes DosSantos
About the author
Viviane Saleh-Hanna is Full Professor of Crime and Justice Studies and Director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her scholarship centers wholistic justice, abolition, anti-colonialism, Black feminist hauntology, structurally abusive relationships, and freedom dreams inspired by Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, and new world formations of Afrofuturism.
Jason M. Williams is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. He's an activist scholar specializing in racial and gender disparity, and mistreatment within the criminal legal system; a nationally recognized and quoted qualitative criminologist with publications on re-entry, policing, and social control; and is engaged in community-grounded research.
Michael J. Coyle is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, California State University, Chico. He is the author of
Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society (Routledge, 2013) and the forthcoming
Seeing Crime: Penal Abolition as the End of Utopian Criminal Justice.
Summary
Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on Criminology and Criminal Justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven discourses that encourage a vision and practice of new world formations.
