More security may actually make us feel less secure

Weaver, Vesla M.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1813014115

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“…The carceral system is ineffective in its purported goal of promoting public safety. Evidence indicates that carceral institutions do not effectively reduce crime or promote safety (Weaver, 2018), prevent violence (Baughman, 2020), empower survivors of intimate partner violence (Campbell, 2008); moreover, evidence shows that living in neighborhoods with heightened police surveillance and use‐of‐force increases feelings of psychological distress (Sewell et al, 2016). Criminalization in communities also increases as a result of the PIC (Benjamin, 2019; Del Toro et al, 2019).…”

Section: Overview Of the Prison Industrial Complex And Abolitionist P...mentioning

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Identifying abolitionist alignments in community psychology: A path toward transformation

DaViera

Bailey

Lakind

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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Psychology is grounded in the ethical principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence, that is, “do no harm.” Yet many have argued that psychology as a field is attached to carceral systems and ideologies that uphold the prison industrial complex (PIC), including the field of community psychology (CP). There have been recent calls in other areas of psychology to transform the discipline into an abolitionist social science, but this discourse is nascent in CP. This paper uses the semantic device of “algorithms” (e.g., conventions to guide thinking and decision‐making) to identify the areas of alignment and misalignment between abolition and CP in the service of moving us toward greater alignment. The authors propose that many in CP are already oriented to abolition because of our values and theories of empowerment, promotion, and systems change; our areas of misalignment between abolition and CP hold the potential to evolve. We conclude with proposing implications for the field of CP, including commitments to the belief that (1) the PIC cannot be reformed, and (2) abolition must be aligned with other transnational liberation efforts (e.g., decolonization).

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Section: Overview Of the Prison Industrial Complex And Abolitionist P...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying abolitionist alignments in community psychology: A path toward transformation

DaViera

Bailey

Lakind

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…The carceral system is ineffective in achieving its purported goal of promoting public safety, as carceral institutions do not effectively reduce crime and promote safety (Baughman, 2020; Weaver, 2018). Risk assessment measures are often employed by professionals, such as correctional and forensic psychologists, who work within the juvenile and criminal legal systems to assess a person’s likelihood of reengaging in illegal behaviors.…”

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Addressing mass incarceration amid a pandemic: Psychology informing decarceration as a racial justice and public health response.

Alexander,

Klukoff,

Gaglione

2023

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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Consensus, Coalitions, and Division: Today’s Jewish Community Counters Antisemitism

Kahn¹

2020

Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry

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More security may actually make us feel less secure

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Identifying abolitionist alignments in community psychology: A path toward transformation

Identifying abolitionist alignments in community psychology: A path toward transformation

Addressing mass incarceration amid a pandemic: Psychology informing decarceration as a racial justice and public health response.

Consensus, Coalitions, and Division: Today’s Jewish Community Counters Antisemitism

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