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7 February 2023: Abolition and Police

Vitale, Alex. (2017). “The Limits of Police Reform,” and “The Police are Not Here to Protect You.” Chs 1 and 2 in The End of Policing. London and New York: Verso Books, 7–54.


Ritchie, Andrea. (2017). “Policing Gender Lines.” Ch 6 in Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Boston: Beacon Press.


(2022). “‘Police don’t produce safety’: the Black feminist scholars fighting for abolition” (interview with Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie). The Guardian, 29 August.

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