Document Type
Article
English Abstract
This article looks toward a future of prison abolition by arguing for feminist models of Transformative Justice (TJ), a strategy that responds to harm by aiming to transform the conditions that make violence possible. Autoethnographic reflections of the author’s experience volunteering with Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA), a TJ initiative based on friendship and accountability working to reintegrate people incarcerated for perpetrating sexualized violence back into communities, are combined with a critical analysis of the existing literature about TJ principles and initiatives. Insights from the author’s experience with COSA are examined for their potential use in a feminist TJ context. This article considers Philly Stands Up as an example of a more radical, grassroots TJ model, explores what examining this model in light of COSA’s techniques might suggest for a sustainable feminist TJ framework, and proposes several small steps forward for TJ movements to work toward a future in which no one is disposable.
Citation Information
Barrie, Hannah.
"No One Is Disposable: Towards Feminist Models of Transformative Justice."
Journal of Law and Social Policy
33.
(2020): 65-92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/0829-3929.1398
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/vol33/iss1/4
