Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on Criminology and Criminal Justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven discourses that encourage a vision and practice of new world formations.
Viviane Saleh-Hanna is Full Professor of Crime and Justice Studies and Director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her scholarship centers wholistic justice, abolition, anti-colonialism, Black feminist hauntology, structurally abusive relationships, and freedom dreams inspired by Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, and new world formations of Afrofuturism.
Jason M. Williams is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. He's an activist scholar specializing in racial and gender disparity, and mistreatment within the criminal legal system; a nationally recognized and quoted qualitative criminologist with publications on re-entry, policing, and social control; and is engaged in community-grounded research.
Michael J. Coyle is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, California State University, Chico. He is the author of Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society (Routledge, 2013) and the forthcoming Seeing Crime: Penal Abolition as the End of Utopian Criminal Justice.