This book issues a powerful call to action: queer justice requires the abolition of the prison industrial complex. Bringing together historical, empirical, pedagogical, and personal essays that welcome readers into the complex and hopeful work of abolition, this collective project highlights a range of anticarceral resistance work. Intersectional and actionable by design, Abolition and Queer Justice features the voices of scholars and activists from across queer criminology and invites students, scholars, and activists to join together to advance truly transformative goals.
By:
Allyn Walker,
Aimee Wodda
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780520399082
ISBN 10: 0520399080
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Introduction: Envisioning Queer Justice Allyn Walker and Aimee Wodda PART ONE. SEEDS OF CHANGE: NURTURING OUR ABOLITIONIST GROWTH 1. 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 CRIMINALIZATION 6. 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 CRIMINOLOGY 11. 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 Bibliography Contributors Index
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.
