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Topic: Community Engagement

Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist

Gun violence in Philadelphia has reached a boiling point. Politicians, police, and community members are searching for ways to curb...

Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps to End Imprisonment

A chart that breaks down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of policing, and abolitionist...

Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact

The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars have shown that criminal legal contact reduces...

Effect of Abandoned Housing Interventions on Gun Violence, Perceptions of Safety, and Substance Use in Black Neighborhoods: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (Philadelphia)

Question: Do structural interventions to abandoned houses lead to improvements in health and safety in low-income, Black neighborhoods? Findings: In...

Abolition and the State: A Discussion Tool

As movements to defund and divest from policing and invest in community safety expand in the wake of the 2020...

Reimagining Community Safety in California: From Deadly and Expensive Sheriffs to Equity and Care-Centered Wellbeing

Today, Catalyst California’s (formerly Advancement Project California) new Reimagine Justice & Safety program released Reimagining Community Safety in California: From...

Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States

Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American democracy with fellow...

Self-Managed Abortion Is Not Illegal in Most of the Country, but Criminalization Happens Anyway

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as we long feared, we’ve been forced to navigate a new legal...

Deep Dive: Police Abolition

Two years ago in the summer of 2020, the largest racial justice demonstrations in history swept across the globe after...