How to End Family Policing (eBook, ePUB)

From Outrage to Action
Redaktion: Cloud, Erin Miles; Tolliver, C. Hope; Perez-Darby, Shannon; Meiners, Erica R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make our communities less safe for them.

Based on decades of shared organizing, study, and lived experience, the contributors to How to End Family Policing argue that the child welfare system cannot build genuine safety. Rather than the misleading language of "child welfare" and "child protective services," scholars and activists use the term "family policing" to name the fact that these institutions and practices are neither neutral nor benign.

Black, Indigenous, and Latinx parents do not mistreat their children at higher rates than white parents. Yet 53 percent of all Black children in the United States will experience a child protective services investigation before the age of eighteen.

Offering first-person testimony, alternatives to family policing, and definitions of key concepts, this book is an urgent call to build flourishing communities.

With contributions from Corey B. Best, Annie Chambers, Noran Elzarka, Brianna Harvey, Shira Hassan, Shawn Koyano, jaboa lake, Elizabeth Ling, Leah Plasse, Margaret Prescod, zara raven, Ignacio G. Hutía Xeiti Rivera, Dorothy Roberts, Arneta Roger, Lisa Sangoi, jasmine Sankofa, Kylee Sunderlin, Jasmine Wali, E. Zimiles, and the editors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888905265
• Artikelnr.: 73674135

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Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From Outrage to Action
1. It's Never Been about the Welfare of Children: The Origins of the Term
Family Police by Brianna Harvey and Jasmine Wali
2. Who is Safe? Who is Protected? by Corey B. Best
3. Prevention, Reparations, and Reunification Black Families and Healing
the Harms of Family Policing by jaboa lake
4. Young People Deserve Community Care by zara raven
5. Abolish the Family by Ignacio G. Hutía Xeiti Rivera
6. Who Do You Tell? by Shannon Perez-Darby
7. The Community Dimensions of State Child Protection by Dorothy Roberts
8. Beyond Mandated Reporting: Organizing from the Inside Out by Leah
Plasse, LCSW, and E. Zimiles, LCSW
9. "I'm not an Organizer, I Just Organized" by Amanda Wallace, Annie
Chambers, Charity Tolliver, Erin Cloud Miles, and Margaret Prescod
10. Change Everything? Notes on Abolitionist Strategies by Erica R. Meiners
11. What About Child Sexual Abuse? by Hope Tolliver
12. Bigger than Roe v. Wade by Arneta Rogers, jasmine Sankofa, Erin Miles
Cloud, Noran Elzarka, Elizabeth Ling, and Kylee Sunderlin
13. Relationships not Reporting: The Transformative Justice Help Desk
by Shira Hassan
14. Everyday People Build Extraordinary Possibilities: Parental Organizing
as Key to Ending Family Policing by Shawn Koyano
15. Movement Building and the Experiment of Movement for Family Power
by Erin Miles Cloud and Lisa Sangoi
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Endnotes