Resources
We offer a selection of tools, ranging from articles to entire websites, to help you along your journey to imagining justice beyond punishment.
BUILDING A NARRATIVE TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. →
This memo holds guidance for engaging strategic audiences in conversations about how to address violence and those who have been accused of or convicted of violence in the U.S.
Crime survivors speak →
The National Survey of Victims’ Views is the first-of-its-kind research on crime survivors' experiences with the criminal justice system and their preferences for safety and justice policy.
Solutions to violence →
Solutions to Violence profiles 18 groups forging new paths to safety and healing that do not rely on the police or incarceration.
abolitionist toolbox →
A collection of everyday resources to help you forge the way for a punishment-free world.
Instead of Punishment, You Need a Movement: Why RAPP Leaves No One Behind →
Release Aging People in Prison’s (RAPP) founding principle is that no one, regardless of their criminal conviction, should be denied consideration for release.
Alternatives to Police and Prisons: Activists Share How to Better Address Violence →
Can we create a world where we don’t turn to police and prisons for justice? Amy Hall explores the movement offering a different vision for the future.
Reimagining the Commons Is One Step Toward a Future Without Police →
In this excerpt from their latest book, No More Police: A Case for Abolition, Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie explore what coming together to cultivate and manage common resources could look like — without police.
Non-Law Enforcement Restorative Justice Addressing Domestic and Sexual Violence →
The CHAT Project joined together to create a local adaptation of restorative justice with the support of a team of committed leaders including primary trainer/co-creator, sujatha baliga, who brought extensive experience in restorative justice implementation with youth in pre-charge felony diversion programs and adults in situations of domestic and sexual violence.
Creative interventions workbook: practical tools to stop interpersonal violence →
This workbook is an easy-to-use companion to the more comprehensive Creative Interventions Toolkit, laying out approaches and strategies to addressing and preventing interpersonal violence.
SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE ABOUT VIOLENCE →
Read more about Common Justice’s efforts to tell the truth about violence— about the people who survive it, the people who cause it, and the strategies that will work to end it.
Growing Justice →
Why understanding restorative and transformative justice on their own terms, and at their best and worst, will help us build more of both.
One million experiments →
One Million Experiments is a website which explores snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.
The Root Cause of Violent Crime Is Not What We Think It Is →
Drown out the media noise and sensationalism, and what do we find when we investigate violent crime? Phillip Atiba Goff explores this question.
Do We Want to Solve Violence, or Crime? →
For decades politicians have focused on reducing crime while communities end up with nothing that actually solves violence—and often with strategies that make it worse. Danielle Sered and Kira Shepherd of Common Justice explore this looming question.
