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1	An Analysis of U.S. Drug Policy: Its Effect on Communities of Color and a Path to End the War on Drugs White, Alexis 06 September 2018 (has links) This thesis examines the history of legal and illegal narcotics in the United States. This thesis explores the impact criminalizing drug use has on communities of color. The current criminal justice system seeks to correct behavior society and the law deems deviant but has not proven to be effective as shown by rates of recidivism. The present research uses a literature review to investigate how alternative dispute resolution practices and prison abolition meet the needs of the criminal justice system. The purpose of this thesis is to examine two proposed reforms: one that would abolish prison sentences except in cases where offenders pose a high risk to public safety, and another that would employ conflict resolution techniques to serve the retributive, and rehabilitative purposes of the criminal sanction. This thesis will suggest that these proposed reforms, if undertaken concurrently, will likely shrink the US prison population while advancing penal goals. Critical Race Theory Drug Policy Marijuana Prohibition Prison Abolition Prison Reform War on Drugs
2	Just Punishment?: The Epistemic and Affective Investments in Carceral Feminism Joseph, Tess January 2019 (has links) No description available. American Studies Criminology Gender Studies carceral feminism epistemology affect theory prison abolition sexual violence domestic violence
3	"A Village Can't Be Built in a Jail" Carceral Humanism and Ethics of Care in Gender Responsive Incarceration Hirschberg, Claire E 01 January 2015 (has links) This thesis is built on the knowledge and experience I learned working with CURB and as a member of L.A. No More Jail, particularly in the ongoing fight against the Mira Loma gender responsive “Women’s Village” Jail expansion, which is part of a larger jail building boom on going in California right now. I write this thesis to engage in the reimagining of justice that abolitionist community organizers, formerly and currently incarcerated people and others who work to challenge the prison industrial complex have been envisioning for California. gender responsive feminist prison abolition jails expansion prison carceral humanism Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies
4	"DON'T LET THEM BURY US": LESBIAN ACTIVISM IN THE GENEALOGY OF THE PRISON ABOLITION MOVEMENT Cait N. Parker (20360190) 10 January 2025 (has links) <p dir="ltr">This dissertation analyzes how lesbian activism contributed to the genealogy of the prison abolition movement from the late 1980s through the early 2000s through collective practices, including grassroots organizing, exchanging writing and art, and acts of intimacy. Although the language of prison abolition did not emerge widely until the 1990s, their work —though not explicitly abolitionist at the time — proved instrumental to the contemporary prison abolitionist movement. Through archival research and oral histories with Judy Greenspan, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, and Eve Rosahn, this research shows how these activists interceded in abolition's genealogy through their nuanced interrogations of gender, sexuality, and incarceration within the broader context of systemic racism and imperialist violence. Their critiques challenged mainstream feminist and gay and lesbian movements' failure to recognize their interdependencies within the carceral system. In 1986, as anti-imperialist lesbian activist Susan Rosenberg was led to a prison isolation unit, Rosenberg called out “Don’t let them bury us!”; excavating these genealogical threads enriches our understanding of abolitionist thought and illuminates crucial intersections between lesbian activism, anti-imperialism, and the struggle for a world without prisons.</p> Gender history Feminist and queer theory Feminist theory Sexualities Lesbian history Queer history history of sexuality leftist history U.S. History political prisoners prison abolition critical carceral studies Women's history
5	Dreaming of Abolitionist Futures, Reconceptualizing Child Welfare: Keeping Kids Safe in the Age of Abolition Williams, Emma Peyton 19 June 2020 (has links) No description available. American Studies Gender Studies Black Studies Black History African American Studies African Americans Criminology Families and Family Life Individual and Family Studies Legal Studies Minority and Ethnic Groups Native Americans Native American Studies Native Studies Social Work Welfare Child welfare Family regulation Carceral Abolition Police Policing Prison abolition Abolitionist Surveillance Social services Family services Parents Parenting Social work Child Children Critical carceral studies Carceral studies

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