lipstickandlighters

Manic depressive shoplifter obsessed with fire and true love.

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References

Brooks, C., & Goodison, S. (2023). Bureau of Justice Statistics · Statistical Tables Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2021 -Statistical Tables. https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/fdcda21st.pdf

Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action. (2020). What’s next?: Safer and More Just Communities without Policing.

McKinney, C. (2012). An anarchist theory of criminal justice. https://marisluste.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/coy-mckinney-an-anarchist-theory-of-criminal-justice.pdf

NAACP. (2022). The Origins of Modern Day Policing. Naacp.org; NAACP. https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing

Project Nia. (2022). Mapping the Prison Industrial Complex. https://files.cargocollective.com/c1012822/MappingPICHandout.pdf

Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood . (n.d.). What is abolition? Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.revivingsisterhood.org/what-is-abolition

Sawatsky, A. W. (2024). Anarchism & social work​. Critical Social Work, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.22329/csw.v25i1.8548

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Macro Level Approaches

(Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood , n.d.)

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Social workers can use restorative justice practices wherever they are, inside of a system or working against it.

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"Rather than using force to achieve compliance, the anarchist approach to resolving conflict is voluntary, and believes justice can only be determined by the involved parties through dialogue. A justice system based on these principles exists, and is called restorative justice."​

"At its core, it is a Form of community justice that recognizes the interconnectedness of communal living, and that harm and conflicts are symptoms of communal inadequacies. Therefore, if everyone’s needs are being met, then consequently the causes for conflict are prevented." (pg. 20)

(McKinney, 2012)

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Anarchism & Social Work

"The person-in-the-environment focus-in principle if not in application- resonates with early writings by anarchists on the role of the environment on human development and is extended in more recent work on the relationship between the ecology and anarchism" (pg. 14).

"Our work in direct practice invariably softens the edges of the contradictions in capitalism. It can echo a liberal sentiment, that the solution to social problems is embedded in helping citizens be better at competing in a neoliberal landscape (e.g., job retraining) rather than addressing the very system that allows for an economically disadvantaged caste to be a chronic presence in the first place" (pg. 6)

"Social workers have taken on expert positions in order to participate in modern society as those who provide services otherwise ignored and champion for the lost and forgotten –the victims of the capitalist system. We ought to expand this argument to include anarchist thought in that this represents a truly healthy society-rather than the present one where we are engaging in a form of reactionary social medicine for lack of a better, non-medical model analogy" (pg. 8) 

(Sawatsky, 2024)

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"No one is free when others are oppressed"

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If the path to avoid punishment is the ability to hire a lawyer, that punishment is only for the poor.

If a society has more laws to punish poor people for being poor than to protect them, whose interest are the laws protecting?

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Police Abolition

Disempower, Disarm, Disband

Police abolition is a process of reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention. It is a long-term project that requires shifting our emergency response procedures and putting actual safety-creating systems in place.

(Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action, pg. 13)

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Prison Abolition

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There is no way to reform something that is working just as it was designed. Policing at its root is anti-black, anti-indigenous, and ableist, and it upholds all other forms of supremacy.