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Transformative Justice Journal, founded in 2012, is a penal abolition journal.

About TJJ

The Transformative Justice Journal (TJJ), a project of Save the Kids from Incarceration, founded in 2012, is an online, open-source, peer-reviewed scholar-activist, anti-authoritarian, subversive, and critical penal abolition journal dedicated to promoting transformative justice. TJJ is organized and edited by a radical critical grass-roots collective of activist-scholars, community organizers, and current and former prisoners from around the world. TJJ was influenced out of conversations at the International Conference on Penal Abolition ICOPA in 2010. As a scholar-activist journal, TJJ was developed out of scholarly and community dialogues around promoting a decolonizing and anarchist criminology social justice penal abolition community-based alternatives to both the retributive, punitive, and utilitarian justice models used by most colonial criminal justice systems, which victimize offenders and re-victimize survivors of offenses, while promoting profits over people and corporate interests over community interests. The current punitive criminal justice system takes control, responsibility, healing, and accountability away from victims and offenders and instead gives them a powerless and victimizing experience. Transformative justice, a decolonizing and anti-oppression approach, however, views conflict not from the lens of the criminal justice system, but from the community; as such, those involved in the conflict are seen as individuals rather than victims or offenders. Moreover, transformative justice works to dismantle oppression by systems of domination, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, elitism, statism, classism, transphobia, ecocide, speciesism, and ableism within all domestic, interpersonal, global, and community conflicts that foster theories such as, but not limited to eugenics, capitalism, and colonialism. In short, transformative justice is restorative justice plus social justice. Transformative justice expands the social justice model, which challenges and identifies injustices, in order to create organized processes of addressing and ending those injustices and providing space and place for marginalized voices. Transformative justice also builds off the principles of, anarchism, decolonizing, prison abolition, healing justice, Quakerism, liberation, revolutionary social justice resistance movements, First Nations in Canada, and restorative justice in order to dismantle oppression, repression, suppression, and domination.

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Editor-in-Chief

  • Dr. Lea Lani Kinikini
    Director, Institute for Research & Engaged Scholarship
    University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu
    transformativejusticejournal@gmail.com

Prisoner Liaison Editor

  • Lucas Alan Dietsche, MA
    Adjunct Professor
    University of Wisconsin-Platteville
    transformativejusticejournal@gmail.com

Managing Editor

  • Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II
    Department of Criminal Justice
    Salt Lake Community College
    Larry H. Miller Campus
    PSET Office 270 D
    410 West 9800 South
    Sandy, Utah 84070
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