We Make Our Own Justice: Global Alternatives to Policing and Prisons

What if we abolished police, courts, and prisons? Where would we turn for justice? Do we need to have laws? Punishment? These questions are not just the preoccupation of an abolitionist pipedream. Their answers exist already if only we know where to look.

We Make Our Own Justice introduces the reader to communities worldwide that resolve harms and conflicts without looking to the state or judiciary. The book explores several locations where alternative forms of justice, peace—keeping, and ad...