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A new paper from researchers at the University of Denver examines what role psychologists can play in overturning the systems of oppression, inequity, and white supremacy perpetuated by the US criminal justice system.
Psychology and its subfields have long been complicit in systems of oppression, with ties to law enforcement, the police, and current immigration policies. Identifying specific areas of psychology that engage with “systems that have historically been a source of harm and a means for social control,” the authors argue that for psychology to move towards an authentically antiracist practice, practitioners must embrace an abolitionist framework.
Psychology’s own Ethical Standards Demand Prison Abolition
New work takes a closer look at psychology's troubling relationship with the criminal justice system and outlines a path toward abolition.
By Jenny Logan -July 30, 2021
www.madinamerica.com/2021/07/psychologys-ethical-standards-demand-prison-abolition/
Toward an Abolitionist Practice of Psychology: Reimagining Psychology’s Relationship With the Criminal Justice System
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Hannah Klukoff, Haleh Kanani, Claire Gaglione, ...
First Published May 18, 2021 Research Article
doi.org/10.1177/00221678211015755
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221678211015755
Abstract
The social justice uprisings that have stemmed from several recent highly publicized murders of Black people by police have shed increasing light on the systems of oppression, inequity, and white supremacy that have been the backbone of the United States’ policing and criminal justice systems since their inception. The American Psychological Association, along with many professional organizations across the subfields of psychology, has released its statement outlining how psychology must contribute to the eradication of systemic racism and white supremacy. In this article, we address the need for psychology and its subfields to acknowledge our complicity in certain systems of oppression, such as our ties to law enforcement and the police, our support of mental health reforms that merely increase the scope of a punitive criminal justice system, and our complicity in the harm done by our current immigration policies. We argue that the best way, in fact the only way, for the profession to move toward an antiracist psychological practice is to embrace an abolitionist framework so that we may reimagine our relationships with historically oppressive institutions and rebuild our clinical practices to promote life-affirming interventions and liberation for individuals and communities.
Psychology and its subfields have long been complicit in systems of oppression, with ties to law enforcement, the police, and current immigration policies. Identifying specific areas of psychology that engage with “systems that have historically been a source of harm and a means for social control,” the authors argue that for psychology to move towards an authentically antiracist practice, practitioners must embrace an abolitionist framework.
Psychology’s own Ethical Standards Demand Prison Abolition
New work takes a closer look at psychology's troubling relationship with the criminal justice system and outlines a path toward abolition.
By Jenny Logan -July 30, 2021
www.madinamerica.com/2021/07/psychologys-ethical-standards-demand-prison-abolition/
Toward an Abolitionist Practice of Psychology: Reimagining Psychology’s Relationship With the Criminal Justice System
Show all authors
Hannah Klukoff, Haleh Kanani, Claire Gaglione, ...
First Published May 18, 2021 Research Article
doi.org/10.1177/00221678211015755
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221678211015755
Abstract
The social justice uprisings that have stemmed from several recent highly publicized murders of Black people by police have shed increasing light on the systems of oppression, inequity, and white supremacy that have been the backbone of the United States’ policing and criminal justice systems since their inception. The American Psychological Association, along with many professional organizations across the subfields of psychology, has released its statement outlining how psychology must contribute to the eradication of systemic racism and white supremacy. In this article, we address the need for psychology and its subfields to acknowledge our complicity in certain systems of oppression, such as our ties to law enforcement and the police, our support of mental health reforms that merely increase the scope of a punitive criminal justice system, and our complicity in the harm done by our current immigration policies. We argue that the best way, in fact the only way, for the profession to move toward an antiracist psychological practice is to embrace an abolitionist framework so that we may reimagine our relationships with historically oppressive institutions and rebuild our clinical practices to promote life-affirming interventions and liberation for individuals and communities.