Beyond Survival

By Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha,

Book cover of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Book description

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the punative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under…

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