Our Work

Building Thriving, Liberatory, And Safe Communities

Interrupting Criminalization is a movement resource hub offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers, practitioners, and advocates on the cutting edge of efforts to build a world free of violence, surveillance, policing, and punishment.

How We Support Groups & Individuals In Challenging Criminalization

Consultation +
Learning Spaces

Participatory spaces created and designed to support groups and individuals across the country to challenge criminalization.

Research +
Special Projects

Knowledge production and partnerships exploring and expanding on special initiatives across a number of topics.

Tool Building +
Resource Sharing

A searchable catalog featuring published books, reports, toolkits, curricula, artwork, and more.

Consultation + Learning Spaces

Bringing People Together

We create and offer supportive and educational spaces for organizers while coordinating expanded resource sharing and relationship building. These include collaborative learning spaces, individual consultation, and more.

  • Labor & Abolition Office Hours

    Consultation space for practitioners of all kinds looking to strategize about labor’s role in abolition.

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  • Abolition Media Office Hours

    Consultation space for abolitionist journalists, communicators, and media makers to strategize and share skills.

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  • Transformative Justice Help Desk

    Transformative Justice Help Desk

    Consultation space for groups and individuals working on projects and community-wide interventions to transform harm.

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  • Beyond Do No Harm

    A network working to address the harm caused when health providers and institutions and public health researchers and institutions facilitate, participate in and support criminalization.

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  • Health Care Strategy Consult

    Consultation space for those looking for a thought partner on practical strategies for interrupting criminalization in health care environments.

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Special Projects

Building Liberatory Movements

We create resources and provide learning opportunities and containers for organizers to grapple with big picture questions, strategize together, navigate conflict, and build skills to bring into being the world we want.

  • IC 2024 Curriculum

    Self-directed independent study using the wealth of resources created by IC, aimed at helping you strategize, use, and apply these in your organizing and campaigns.

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  • Transformative Justice Skill Up

    Creating an infrastructure for TJ practices through organizing, community-based skill-up, an the participatory design of a TJ Virtual Hub, which will be launched in 2025.

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  • Beyond Courts

    Exploring why the abolition of the prison-industrial complex necessarily requires abolition of the criminal court system.

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  • One Million Experiments

    Exploring snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

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  • No More Police

    Detailing how and why policing doesn’t stop violence, the many failures of contemporary police reforms, and demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community.

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  • Building Coordinated Crisis Response

    Monthly learning space for groups working to intervene in and respond to crisis without police. In 2024, hosted by Just Practice Collaborative.

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  • Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox

    Virtual workshop series that shares everyday resources for a punishment-free world.

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  • Abolition Imagination Cards

    Inviting us to imagine and dream the future that we want, through downloadable and shareable artwork.

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Tools & Resources for Emerging Movements

We publish resources, workbooks, toolkits, and more to support organizing on the ground that focuses on multiple points of criminalization, whether that's defunding the police, addressing harm, shifting narratives, or more. Feel free to search our repository of materials and share widely.

  • “It’s important for us to be able to have those conversations, to be able to talk to other organizers, to learn their best practices...That’s going to sustain our movement and sustain the momentum across the country.”

    Devin Anderson, African American Roundtable

  • “What I primarily learned today was about shifting my critical thinking about daily news to focus on harm, rather than on crime. I am an editor and breaking news producer and I felt that the discussion of framing was a fundamentally different way of news assembly that had not been presented to me before.”

    Attendee of “Don’t Be a Copagandist: Covering Violence & “Crime” with an Abolitionist Lens

  • “[Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox] prompted me to literally start a mutual aid network for survivors of intimate partner violence in my community, and has also been the guide for myself and a group of colleagues who are working to build a truly community-based, non-state involved crisis response program for survivors in our community.”

Join Us In Interrupting Criminalization

Interrupting Criminalization is entirely supported through grassroots fundraising, private donations, and foundation funding. For more information or to support our work, feel free to get in touch.