The well-known movement chant “we keep us safe” disrupts carceral logics that deem policing—and the criminal punishment system more broadly—as sites of public safety and protection from violence and instead situates the source of safety within the community. Nevertheless, activist calls for community-centered alternatives to harm and violence occur alongside increasing backlash from media, legislators, and community members alike, who assert that, while flawed, police remain crucial for public safety—claims grounded in carceral feminist approaches to violent crime. More specifically, supporters of police as the site of safety commonly raise concerns related to victims of gendered intimate partner and sexual violence. In this article, we draw on 131 interviews from two studies with community activists, antiviolence advocates (both within and outside the state), and survivors to examine how they make sense of abolition and transformative justice in relation to their own lives, their work, their communities, and the state. Although participants may not use the actual language, our findings highlight abolition feminism as the framework guiding their critiques of the criminal punishment system, their visions for safety, and the everyday nuances they identify in seeking responses to gendered harm and violence beyond policing.

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“我们保证我们的安全！”：废除女权主义是对监狱女权主义对性别暴力反应的挑战


著名的运动口号“我们保证我们的安全”打破了监狱逻辑，将警务以及更广泛的刑事处罚系统视为公共安全和防止暴力的场所，而是将安全的源泉置于社区内。尽管如此，活动人士呼吁采取以社区为中心的替代伤害和暴力的措施，同时媒体、立法者和社区成员的强烈反对也随之而来，他们声称，尽管警察存在缺陷，但对公共安全仍然至关重要——这种说法是基于监狱女权主义对待暴力犯罪的方法。更具体地说，警察作为安全场所的支持者通常会引起对性别亲密伴侣和性暴力受害者的担忧。在本文中，我们借鉴了两项研究中对社区活动家、反暴力倡导者（州内外）和幸存者的 131 次访谈，研究他们如何理解废除死刑和变革性正义与自己的生活、工作、他们的社区和国家。尽管参与者可能不会使用实际的语言，但我们的研究结果强调废除女权主义作为指导他们对刑事处罚制度的批评、他们对安全的愿景以及他们在寻求对治安以外的性别伤害和暴力的回应时发现的日常细微差别的框架。