Publications

Andrea J. Ritchie. #DefundPolice #FundThePeople #DefendBlackLives The Struggle Continues. February 2023.

Dragonfly Partners & Interrupting Criminalization. When We Fall Apart. December 2022.

Beyond Do No Harm Network. Beyond Do No Harm: 13 Principles for Health Care Providers to Interrupting Criminalization. November 2022.

Andrea J. Ritchie in collaboration with Mariame Kaba. Abolition & The State: A Discussion Tool. November 2022.

Compiled by Mia Henry, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Andrea J. Ritchie with research from No More Police: A Case for Abolition. Don’t Be a Copagandist. September 2022. [En español]

Compiled by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance. So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy? July 2022

Maria Thomas et al. We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth: Drawing the Connections Between Our Movements. May 2022.

Interrupting Criminalization and Dragonfly Partners. In It Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups. November 2021.

Maria Thomas et al. Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization. November 2021.

Shana Agid, Judy Park Lee & Mariame Kaba. TJ Skill-Up Institute: Skills, Relationships & Structures Worksheet. September 2021. [En español]

Andrea J. Ritchie, Megyung Chung, Diana Zúñiga, and Appendix by Anand Subramanian. Navigating Public Safety Task Forces: A Guide From The Ground. August 2021.

Mariame Kaba & Eva Nagao. What About The Rapists? An Abolitionist FAQ Zine. August 2021.

Jared Knowles & Andrea J. Ritchie. Cops Don’t Stop Violence: Combating Narratives Used to Defend Police Instead of Defunding Them. July 2021.

Mimi E. Kim, Megyung Chung, Shira Hassan & Andrea J. Ritchie. Defund the Police - Invest in Community Care: A Guide to Non-Police Mental Health Crisis Response. May 2021.

Timothy Colman, Pascale Emmer, Derecka Purnell, Andrea J. Ritchie, Hiram Rivera & Tiffany Wang. Divesting from Pandemic Policing and Investing in a Just Recovery (The COVID19 Policing Project). May 2021.

Interrupting Criminalization. Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence: What We Know & What Can We Do About It (Report) & Breaking the Silence: Supporting Survivors of Police Sexual Violence (Curriculum). April 2021.

Project Nia & Interrupting Criminalization with Illustrations by Noah Jodice. Police Abolition 101: Messages When Facing Doubts. January 2021.

Andrea J. Ritchie. The Demand is Still #DefundPolice. January 2021. [En español.]

Andrea J. Ritchie. Police Responses to Domestic Violence: A Fact Sheet. October 2020. Disponible en Español.

Pascale Emmer, Woods Ervin, Derecka Purnell, Andrea J. Ritchie & Tiffany Wang. Unmasked: Impacts of Pandemic Policing (The COVID19 Policing Project). October 2020.

Woods Ervin & Joss Greene. Trans Women and Femmes of Color at Work. 2020. 

Interrupting Criminalization, ed. Mariame Kaba. What’s Next? Safer and More Just Communities Without Policing. September 2020.

Beth Richie, Dylan Rodríguez, Mariame Kaba, Melissa Burch, Rachel Herzing and Shana Agid. Problems With Community Control of Police and Proposals for Alternatives. Fall 2020.

Interrupting Criminalization & Sensitive Visuals, ed. Andrea Ritchie. 6Ds Until She’s Free: Investing in defunding policing, decriminalization, decarceration, and non-criminal safety strategies. Summer 2020.

Interrupting Criminalization. #DefundPolice Toolkit: Concrete Steps Toward Divestment from Policing & Investment in Community Safety. June 2020. [En español.]


Interrupting Criminalization & The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy. Report: Resisting Criminalization of Reproductive Autonomy: Policy Dos and Don’ts & Infographic. May 2019.

Interrupting Criminalization. #InterruptingCriminalization Report: What is Driving the Mass Incarceration of Women and LGBTQ People? 2019.

Andrea J. Ritchie & Levi Craske. Introduction to Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures. The Scholar & Feminist Online, 2019. 

Asha Futterman & Mariame Kaba. Radical Black Women of Harlem Tour. 2019.

Andrea J. Ritchie in collaboration with Black Lives Matter Chicago. Epicenter: Chicago: Reclaiming a City from Neoliberalism. Political Research Associates, 2019.

Andrea J. Ritchie. Expanding Our Frame: Deepening Our Demands for Healing and Safety for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence. National Black Women’s Justice Institute and the Ms. Foundation, 2019. 

Mariame Kaba & Shira Hassan. Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators. AK Press, 2019. 

Survived and Punished et al. Research Across the Walls: A Guide to Participatory Research Projects and Partnerships to Free Criminalized Survivors. 2019.

Mariame Kaba & Survived and Punished. Criminalizing Survival: A Resource of Curricula and Activities. 2018.

Mariame Kaba & Survived and Punished. Criminalizing Domestic Violence: A Curriculum. 2018.

Richard Saenz, Kara Ingelhart & Andrea J. Ritchie. The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Federal Criminal Justice Initiatives on LGBTQ People & Communities and Opportunities for Local Resistance. National LGBT/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group, Lambda Legal, 2018.

Andrea J. Ritchie & Beth E. Richie. The Crisis of Criminalization: A Call for a Comprehensive Philanthropic Response. New Feminist Solutions: Volume 9, 2017.

Andrea J. Ritchie & Monique W. Morris, Ed.D. Centering Black Women, Girls, Gender Nonconforming People, and Fem(me)s In Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary and Freedom Cities. National Black Women’s Justice Institute and the Ms. Foundation for Women, 2017.


Andrea J. Ritchie. Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Beacon Press, 2017.