Interrupting criminalization
Subtitle: research in action
By: Andrea J. Ritchie, Mariame Kaba
Contributors: Barnard Center for Research on Women
Publisher: Barnard Center for Research on Women
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Crime; Criminal statistics; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration; Women; Statistics; Imprisonment; Women prisoners; Sexual minorities; Trans women; Law enforcement; Discrimination in law enforcement; Police; Administration of Criminal justice; Prostitutes; Racial profiling in law enforcement; Social control; Decriminalization; Feminist criminology
Description: Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is a new initiative launched in fall 2018 through the BCRW Social Justice Institute by Researchers-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba. The project aims to interrupt and end the the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Graphics and fact sheets : Download the fact sheets: What is driving the mass criminalization of women and LGBTQ people? (PDF); title: Toolkits, reports, and other resources : Trans women and femmes of color at work: a report / Woods Ervin and Joss Greene; title: #DefundPolice Toolkit: Concrete steps toward divestment from policing & investment in community safety; title: Steps to end prisons and policing: a mixtape on transformative justice / Mariane Kaba with Justice Practice; title: Epicenter: Chicago: reclaiming a city from neoliberalism / Andrea J. Ritchie in collaboration with Black Lives Matter Chicago Political Research Associates; title: Expanding our frame: deepening our demands for safety and healing for Black survivors of violence / Andrea J. Ritchie for the National Black Women's Justice Institute; title: Andrea J. Ritchie and Beth E. Richie, "The crisis of criminalization: a call for a comprehensive philanthropic response," New feminist solutions: volume 9, Fall 2017; title: Mariame Kaba and Survived and Punished, Criminalizing survival: a resource of curricula and activities; title: Mariame Kaba and Survived and Punished, Criminalizing domestic violence: a curriculum; title: Andrea J. Ritchie and Monique W. Morris, Ed.D., Centering Black women, girls, gender nonconforming people, and fem(me)s: In campaigns for expanded sanctuary and freedom cities / National Black Women's Justice Institute and the Ms. Foundation for Women; title: Richard Saenz, Lambda Legal, Kara Ingelhart, Lambda Legal, and Andrea J. Ritchie, Barnard Center for Research on Women, “The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Federal Criminal Justice Initiatives on LGBTQ People & Communities and Opportunities for Local Resistance,” A Report by the National LGBT/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group, Lambda Legal.; title: Videos : Introduction to Mutual Aid: The Janine Soleil Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute (AYO, NYC!)—a collaboration between Project NIA & EFA Project Space, Recorded June 17, 2020; title: 6Ds Until She’s Free: A Comprehensive Cross-Sector Strategy to Interrupt, Reduce and End Criminalization and Mass Incarceration and Deportation of Women, Trans and GNC People: A collaboration between Interrupting Criminalization, an initiative led by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie, BCRW Researchers-in-Residence, and Sensitive Visuals, Spring 2020; title: Building Accountable Communities: A Video Series:  Conversations with Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby, Fall 2018; title: Abolition is a practice/Interrupting criminalization in the media [articles, interviews] : We want more justice for Breonna Taylor than the system that killed her can deliver, Essence / by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie, July 16, 2020; title: Author: Black women's experiences with police brutality must be 'invisible no more', NPR / interview with Andrea Ritchie, July 16, 2020; title: Join the Abolitionist Movement with Mariame Kaba, Rebel Steps Podcast / Interview with Mariame Kaba, June 24, 2020; title: Yes, we mean literally abolish the police, The New York Times Op-Ed / by Mariame Kaba, June 15, 2020; title: What is Prison Abolition? How Would it work?, GQ / Interview with Woods Ervin, June 11, 2020; title: Calls to reform, defund, dismantle, abolish police explained, NBC News / Ben Kesslen, June 8, 2020; title: Police Abolition, Call Your Girlfriend Podcast / featuring Mariame Kaba, June 5, 2020