Transformative Justice & Penal Abolition Lecture Notes

Flashcards based on the CRCJ 1000A lecture on Transformative Justice and Penal Abolition, covering key figures, programs, and abolitionist concepts.

Penal abolition

An approach that connects radical critiques of prisons and state violence with a broader transformative vision, focusing on the entire system rather than just prisons.

Prison abolition

A focus specifically on eliminating prisons as opposed to focusing on the whole penal system.

De-funding (police)

The practice of reallocating money from police budgets, such as taking $10\%$, and putting it into community resources.

De-tasking (police)

The process of reducing the responsibilities of the police, particularly in areas like mental health crises where they are not the best institution to deal with the situation.

Wellness checks

Police interventions in Canada that have resulted in killings, including cases such as Ejaz Choudary and Chantel Moore.

Ejaz Choudary and Chantel Moore

Specific individuals in Canada who were killed during wellness checks conducted by the police.

Robyn Maynard

The author of the book Policing Black Lives who discusses police violence and systemic issues.

Policing Black Lives

A book written by Robyn Maynard that focuses on the lived experiences of Black people with police violence.

Abdirahman Abdi

The individual whose police killing in Ottawa served as the catalyst for the creation of the ANCHOR program.

ANCHOR Program

A program operating in Ottawa since $2024$ that diverts mental health calls away from the police.

CAHOOTS

A program in Eugene, Oregon, that serves as a similar model to Ottawa's ANCHOR program for de-tasking police.

Angela Davis

An activist and scholar who argued that prisons do not disappear social problems but instead disappear human beings.

Social problems (Davis context)

Issues such as homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy that are relegated to cages and hidden from public view.

Reformers

Individuals who work within the existing system without questioning its underlying necessity.

Abolitionists

Individuals who question the need for the carceral system itself and work towards building transformative alternatives.

Non-reformist reforms

Measures that reduce the power of an oppressive system while demonstrating its inability to solve crises, and do not allow the system to expand.

Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre expansion

A project involving a bigger local jail that abolitionists oppose as it strengthens and expands the existing system.

Kemptville Prison

A specific prison construction project in Ontario that abolitionist organizing aims to stop.

Coalation against Proposed Prisons

An organization working to halt Premier Ford's Ontario prison expansion proposals.

Cyntoia Brown

An individual cited as an example of the abolitionist goal to free people from prison.

Ban the box campaign

A campaign in the U.S. aimed at removing the criminal record disclosure box from applications.

‘Dangerous few’

An image often invoked to dismiss the abolitionist vision, usually referring to those convicted of sex offences.

Sexual assault reporting rate

A statistic noting that only $5\%$ of sexual assaults are reported to the police, questioning the system's effectiveness in protection.

Deanna Van Buren

An architect and visionary who advocates for creating transformative and healing spaces rather than harmful ones like prisons.

Restorative economics

An economic concept proposed by Deanna Van Buren as part of the effort to build community-based alternatives to incarceration.

Pop-up resource village

A concept proposed by architect Deanna Van Buren to bring community resources and healing to different locations.

Five Keys Mobile Classroom

A mobile bus classroom used as an example of an alternative transformative space for education and community growth.

Final exam date

The exam is scheduled for Monday, June $22$, at $9:00$ AM.

Final exam duration

The total time allotted for the final exam is $3$ hours.

Multiple-choice questions

The final exam for CRCJ 1000A consists of $90$ questions of this format.

AT 302

The designated location for the final exam.

Registar’s office

The administrative office where students must apply for a deferral if they cannot attend the final exam.

Solitary confinement

A specific carceral practice that abolitionist organizing seeks to end immediately.

Conflict resolution

A process for which abolitionists aim to develop alternative modes that exist outside the current criminal justice system.

State violence

A broad category of violence that abolitionists critique alongside the prison system.

Transformative spaces

Environments intended to heal, bring people together, and build community instead of causing harm.

Police budget trend

The observation that these budgets keep increasing despite calls for reallocation to community resources.

Objectives

The specific chapter from the reading 'How to abolish prisons: Lessons from the movement against imprisonment' by Herzing & Piché.

Herzing & Piché

The authors of the required reading 'How to abolish prisons: Lessons from the movement against imprisonment'.

Cumulative exam

A test that covers all material addressed throughout the entire course.