Abolish Criminology: An Introduction

Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Jason M. Williams and Michael J. Coyle

Criminology: Violent Ideologies and Ripple Effects across Place and Time

1. A Call for Wild Seed Justice

Viviane Saleh-Hanna

2. Unwanted: Epistemic Erasure of Black Radical Possibility in Criminology

Jason M. Williams

3. The History of Criminology is a History of White Supremacy

Viviane Saleh-Hanna

4. The History of Criminal Justice as the Academic Arm of State Violence

Brian Pitman, Stephen T. Young and Ryan Phillips

Criminology: Systemic Violence Against Lands, Minds, and Bodies

5. The White Racialized Center of Criminology

Holly Sims-Bruno

6. Evolving Standards

Derrick Washington

7. Trans Black Women Deserve Better: Expanding Queer Criminology to Unpack Trans Misogynoir in the field of Criminology

Toniqua Mikell

8. American Indians, Settler-State Racism, and Complicit Criminology

Brian T. Broadrose

9. Barrio Criminology: Chicanx and Latinx Prison Abolition

Xuan Santos, Oscar F. Soto, Martin J. Leyva and Christopher Bickel

Interrogating Criminology and Locating Abolition in Areas we are Trained to Overlook

10. Science and Biology Entangled: Education as a Meeting Point

Charlemya Erasme

11. Abolish the Courthouse: Uncovering the Space of "Justice" in a Black Feminist Criminal Trial

Vanessa Lynn Lovelace

12. Marxist Criminology Abolishes Lombroso, Marxist Criminology Abolishes Itself

Erin Katherine Krafft

13. Abolition Now: Counter-Images and Visual Criminology

Michelle Brown

14. Civil Lies

Tatiana Lopes DosSantos

Viviane Saleh-Hanna is Full Professor of Crime and Justice Studies and Director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her scholarship centers wholistic justice, abolition, anti-colonialism, Black feminist hauntology, structurally abusive relationships, and freedom dreams inspired by Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, and new world formations of Afrofuturism.

Jason M. Williams is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. He's an activist scholar specializing in racial and gender disparity, and mistreatment within the criminal legal system; a nationally recognized and quoted qualitative criminologist with publications on re-entry, policing, and social control; and is engaged in community-grounded research.

Michael J. Coyle is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, California State University, Chico. He is the author of Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society (Routledge, 2013) and the forthcoming Seeing Crime: Penal Abolition as the End of Utopian Criminal Justice.

Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on criminology and criminal justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven visions and practices for new world formations.
The book introduces readers to a detailed history and analysis of crime as a concept and its colonizing trajectories into existence and enforcement. These significant contexts buried within peculiar academic histories and classroom practices are often overlooked or unknown outside academic and public discussions, causing the impact of racializing-gendering-sexualizing histories to extend and grow through criminology's creation of crime, extending how the concept is weaponized and enforced through the criminal legal system. It offers written, visual, and poetic teachings from the perspectives of students, professors, imprisoned and formerly imprisoned persons, and artists. This allows readers to engage in multi-sensory, inter-disciplinary, and multi-perspective teachings on criminology's often discussed but seldom interrogated mythologies on violence and danger, and their wide-reaching enforcements through the criminal legal system's research, theories, agencies, and dominant cultures.
Abolish Criminology serves the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and educators in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also appeal to scholars, researchers, policy makers, activists, community organizers, social movement builders, and various reading groups in the general public who are grappling with increased critical public discourse on policing and criminal legal reform or abolition.