ABSTRACT
From Australia to Europe, South Africa to Palestine, there is a marked revival of abolitionist discourse in theory and practice, each with locally and historically contextualized features of justice. This chapter takes the US as a specific case and works through how various strands of historical thought, theory and praxis culminate in a call for transformative justice. The author demonstrates that transformative justice is not only the dominant form of alternative justice envisioned by abolition workers on the ground, but also one that seeks to address harm without any reliance on the state. It is therefore concluded that transformative justice also demands critical attention to the ways in which movement organizers have envisioned and pursued abolitionist and transformative interventions and to the principles to which they hold fast.
