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How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action

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Availability:In StockContributor:Erin Miles Cloud (Editor), Erica R. Meiners (Editor), Shannon Perez-Darby (Editor)Publish date:11/4/2025Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9798888904565UPC:9798888904565Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Work, Discrimination, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social Services & WelfareSize:7.40 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC3496QMK4

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them-and our communities-less safe.

Based on decades of shared organizing, study, and lived experience, the contributors to How to End Family Policing argue that the child welfare system cannot build genuine safety. Rather than the misleading language of "child welfare" and "child protective services," scholars and activists use the term "family policing" to name the fact that these institutions and practices are neither neutral nor benign. Black, Indigenous, and Latinx parents do not mistreat their children at higher rates than white parents. Yet 53 percent of all Black children in the United States will experience a child protective services investigation before the age of eighteen.

Offering first-person testimony and laying out visions for alternatives to family policing, this book is an urgent call to build flourishing communities.

With contributions from Corey B. Best, Annie Chambers, Noran Elzarka, Brianna Harvey, Shira Hassan, Shawn Koyano, jaboa lake, Elizabeth Ling, Leah Plasse, Margaret Prescod, zara raven, Ignacio G. Hutía Xeiti Rivera, Dorothy Roberts, Arneta Roger, Lisa Sangoi, jasmine Sankofa, Kylee Sunderlin, Jasmine Wali, Amanda Wallace, Eleni Zimiles, and the editors.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9798888904565UPC:9798888904565Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Work, Discrimination, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social Services & WelfareSize:7.40 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC3496QMK4

Erin Miles Cloud is a mama, civil rights attorney, cofounder of Movement for Family Power, and a former family defense public defender.

Erica R. Meiners is a writer, organizer, and educator in Chicago. They are the coauthor of Abolition. Feminism. Now. and The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm and Ending State Violence.

Shannon Perez-Darby is a queer, mixed-race Latina, founding member of the Accountable Communities Consortium, and a core member of the Mandatory Reporting Is Not Neutral project.

C. Hope Tolliver is a Black poet, abolitionist, parent, and Chicago native who has been organizing for more than two decades.


Publisher: Haymarket Books

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