Abolition: A World without Prisons & Police

Project NIA conducts research on youth incarceration, arrests, and policing in public schools. They ask readers to use their research to strengthen their own work fighting the criminal punishment system and transforming communities.

This report, from the Center for Popular Democracy, examines racial disparities, policing landscapes, and budgets in twelve jurisdictions across the country, comparing the city and county spending priorities with those of community organizations and their members. While many community members, supported by research and established best practices, assert that increased spending on police do not make them safer, cities and counties continue to rely overwhelmingly on policing and incarceration spending while under-resourcing less damaging, more fair, and more effective safety initiatives. Each profile also highlights current or prospective campaigns that seek to divest resources away from police and prisons towards communities and their development.

Report from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research Advisory Group.

Launched in December 2014 by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), the #SayHerName campaign and report brings awareness to the often invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence, and provides support to their families.

This report calls for immediate, concerted, comprehensive, sustained, cross-sector, collaborative philanthropic response to the growing crisis of criminalization, and outlines strategies to more effectively tackle criminalization and mass incarceration, to stop the spread of surveillance and punishment, and to meet the challenges of the current political climate.

The Policing and Social Justice Project, run out of Brooklyn College, is a collaboration of faculty, students, and community based organizations that uses research and advocacy to produce safer and more just communities. They have put out reports on school and gang policing, as well as a gang policing and gang database.

Analysis, guides, organizing tools, publications, research, reports, factsheets, interviews, and more from Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization that seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC).

Reports, zines, and other publications from Interrupting Criminalization.

Portals are virtual chambers where people who are far away from one another can converse as if in the same room. The Portals Policing Project has amassed over 850 conversations across 14 neighborhoods in six cities – the most extensive collection of first-hand accounts of policing to date. More than a data collection technique, however, the Portals are a medium for listening, site of democratic deliberation, and soon became a public good and civic infrastructure in their host communities. Tulane Political Science Professor Gwen Prowse is a principal researcher on the project.