Contents

Introduction: Envisioning Queer Justice Allyn Walker and Aimee Wodda

PART ONE. SEEDS OF CHANGE: NURTURING OUR ABOLITIONIST GROWTH

1. From the Hood to Queer Scholar: How I Became a Police Abolitionist Susana Avalos
2. Growing Up an Abolitionist Rosa Squillacote
3. “So, You Like the Police, Huh?” Alessandra Milagros Early
4. Queer Criminologists’ Pathways to Abolition: A Québécois Autoethnography Alexis Marcoux Rouleau, Karl Beaulieu, and Catherine Therrien
5. A Radical Vision for Prison Abolition Jennifer M. Ortiz

PART TWO. ROOTS OF OPPRESSION: UNEARTHING QUEER CRIMINALIZATION

6. Dismembering the Powermonger: A BlaQueer Feminist Approach to Abolition Toniqua C. Mikell 
7. “At Any Given Point in Your Life, You Can Be Wrong about Everything”: Queer and Trans Perspectives, Community Care, and the Abolitionist Imagination Max Osborn
8. Queer against the Law Amanda M. Petersen
9. (Un)DocuQueer: Trapped within Bodies, Borders, and Systems Karen Z. Armenta Rojas
10. A Conversation on the Criminalization of Queer People, Abolition Feminism, and Resisting Carceral Harms around Child Sexual Abuse jenani devi, Monica Ramsy, and Alison Reba

PART THREE. BRANCHES OF PROGRESS: REACHING FOR QUEER JUSTICE IN CRIMINOLOGY

11. Critiquing Criminology: Toward an Abolitionist-Centered Pedagogy and Discipline 187 Candice Crutchfield
12. From Prison to Police Abolition: Challenging Queer Criminology’s Investments in the Police 200 Emma K. Russell
13. “Queer” Means Centering Criminalized Survivors: Lessons from Abolition Feminism 214 ash stephens and Jane Hereth
14. Toward a Pedagogy of Possibility: On Abolitionist Teaching 227 Ihsan Al-Zouabi

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