Study and Struggle.

As the lawyer and organizer Derecka Purnell shows in her new book Becoming Abolitionists, this abolitionist politics is often misunderstood and misrepresented. For Purnell, this is the essence of abolitionist politics: a "paradigm to organize, navigate, and re-create the world." For this reason, an abolitionist politics, Purnell argues, must be paired with "radical feminism, socialism, environmental justice, and disability justice." Not all police abolitionists make these connections explicit, but as Pur-nell reminds us, there is always a max-imalist and a minimalist version of abolitionist politics. [Extracted from the article]