Totally. The police enforce laws through violence. If there's a single unjust law, the police have sworn to enforce it. Going to jail is humiliating and traumatizing regardless of social system.
We want restorative justice, not punative justice.
Any good reading you can recommend on restorative justice? A lot of the articles I've read focuses on restorative justice practices in small, tight-knit communities, and I've seen some of the challenges at scaling that up to modern, atomized cities.
Yeah. There have been a few studies on the efficacy of Cure Violence's work in Chicago, but they collaborate with the cops, so it's kind of murky what's having what effect on crime. Critical Resistance has a lot of writing on it, but it's geared towards organizers, so it's like 50 pages of framework and theory and then like 3 of reflection on what they did, if it worked, if it's saleable. A people's history talked a little about the War Veterans Labor Guard that non-violently kept the peace in Seattle ring the general strike, but I'm sure you could dig up more in depth sources on it, hell I could just look at the reference in my copy and get back to you.
I want to add that I'm not sure the modern, atomized city is conducive to socialism, let alone the trickier proposition of restorative justice. Part of out project is the re-thinking of cities for a good reason.
Totally. The police enforce laws through violence. If there's a single unjust law, the police have sworn to enforce it. Going to jail is humiliating and traumatizing regardless of social system.
We want restorative justice, not punative justice.
Any good reading you can recommend on restorative justice? A lot of the articles I've read focuses on restorative justice practices in small, tight-knit communities, and I've seen some of the challenges at scaling that up to modern, atomized cities.
Yeah. There have been a few studies on the efficacy of Cure Violence's work in Chicago, but they collaborate with the cops, so it's kind of murky what's having what effect on crime. Critical Resistance has a lot of writing on it, but it's geared towards organizers, so it's like 50 pages of framework and theory and then like 3 of reflection on what they did, if it worked, if it's saleable. A people's history talked a little about the War Veterans Labor Guard that non-violently kept the peace in Seattle ring the general strike, but I'm sure you could dig up more in depth sources on it, hell I could just look at the reference in my copy and get back to you.
I want to add that I'm not sure the modern, atomized city is conducive to socialism, let alone the trickier proposition of restorative justice. Part of out project is the re-thinking of cities for a good reason.
Thanks for the recommendations.