Introduction
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In the Introduction the editors of this collection reflect on a year of collective struggle and mobilization in the United States, Canada and across the world during 2020. The introduction includes a breakdown of police reform and the defunding and abolition movement in Canada, a brief review of studies on the subject, a statement of the collection’s objective, some chapter summaries, and acknowledgements.
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Contributors
Shiri Pasternak
Shiri Pasternak is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at X University in Toronto and a first-generation Canadian of the Jewish diaspora. She is a member of Toronto Abolition Convergence and has been active in Indigenous solidarity movements for many years as a founding member of organizations like Barriere Lake Solidarity, Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, the Anti-Colonial Committee of the Law Union of Ontario, and Defenders of the Land. She is also co-founder and inaugural Research Director (2018–21) of the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nation–focused think tank based out of X University.
Kevin Walby
Kevin Walby is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg. He is co-editor of Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada with Mike Larsen (2012, UBC Press). He is co-author with Randy K. Lippert of Municipal Corporate Security in International Context (2015, Routledge). He has co-edited with Lippert Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in the 21st Century (2013, Routledge) and Corporate Securityin the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (2014, Palgrave). He is co-editor of Access to Information and Social Justice with Jamie Brownlee (2015, ARP Books). He is co-editor of Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service with Brownlee and Chris Hurl (2018, Between the Lines). He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.
Abby Stadnyk
Abby Stadnyk is a white settler scholar and community organizer based in amiskwaciy (also known as Edmonton, Alberta). She is a founding member of Free Lands Free Peoples (FLFP), an Indigenousled anti-colonial penal abolition group, as well as the Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta Abolition Coalition (SMAAC), a prairie region abolition coalition. She has published in Perilous Chronicle, Canadian Dimension, Kite Line Radio, and the Media Co-op. Most recently, she served on the editorial collective for a special issue of Briarpatch magazine on prison abolition, featuring the writing and artwork of incarcerated people in Canada and the United States.