Abolition and Queer Justice

Allyn Walker is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and author of A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.  Aimee Wodda is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Law and Society at Pacific University and coauthor of Sex-Positive Criminology.

• Contents Introduction: Envisioning Queer Justice Allyn Walker and Aimee WoddaPART ONE. SEEDS OF CHANGE: NURTURING OUR ABOLITIONIST GROWTH1. From the Hood to Queer Scholar: How I Became a Police Abolitionist Susana Avalos 2. Growing Up an Abolitionist Rosa Squillacote 3. “So, You Like the Police, Huh?” Alessandra Milagros Early 4. Queer Criminologists’ Pathways to Abolition: A Québécois Autoethnography Alexis Marcoux Rouleau, Karl Beaulieu, and Catherine Therrien 5. A Radical Vision for Prison Abolition Jennifer M. Ortiz PART TWO. ROOTS OF OPPRESSION: UNEARTHING QUEER CRIMINALIZATION6. Dismembering the Powermonger: A BlaQueer Feminist Approach to Abolition Toniqua C. Mikell 7. “At Any Given Point in Your Life, You Can Be Wrong about Everything”: Queer and Trans Perspectives, Community Care, and the Abolitionist Imagination Max Osborn 8. Queer against the Law Amanda M. Petersen 9. (Un)DocuQueer: Trapped within Bodies, Borders, and Systems Karen Z. Armenta Rojas 10. A Conversation on the Criminalization of Queer People, Abolition Feminism, and Resisting Carceral Harms around Child Sexual Abuse jenani devi, Monica Ramsy, and Alison Reba PART THREE. BRANCHES OF PROGRESS: REACHING FOR QUEER JUSTICE IN CRIMINOLOGY11. Critiquing Criminology: Toward an Abolitionist-Centered Pedagogy and Discipline 187 Candice Crutchfield 12. From Prison to Police Abolition: Challenging Queer Criminology’s Investments in the Police 200 Emma K. Russell 13. “Queer” Means Centering Criminalized Survivors: Lessons from Abolition Feminism 214 ash stephens and Jane Hereth 14. Toward a Pedagogy of Possibility: On Abolitionist Teaching 227 Ihsan Al-Zouabi BibliographyContributorsIndex