A report by the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and Interrupting Criminalization that examines diversion programs from the perspective of the people they impact the most — participants themselves — and offers recommendations for program evaluation and creation of community-based programs that genuinely divert people from the criminal punishment system toward sustainable well-being.

Challenging, interrupting, and building a world beyond criminalization is the unifying thread of IC’s work — and of the infrastructure and resources we are creating to support organizers on the ground across the country. Learn more in this summary of IC’s first five years of work.

Illustrated graphic notes from IC’s Building Coordinated Crisis Response monthly practice space, which kicked off in 2022. This virtual learning space is for groups working to collectively intervene in and respond to crises without police.

Thirteen principles for supporting people’s agency, self-determination, dignity of risk, and general wellbeing.

This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice.

In this moment of uprising in response to the multiple crises unfolding across the country and world—particularly police violence against black people—it is imperative that we continue to demand what keeps our communities safe. Trans women and femmes of color (TWOC) have been historically excluded from the formal 1 workforce and forced to rely on criminalized work for survival. Such economic violence leads to police targeting and incarceration. Organizing over the past five years has begun to open up economic opportunities for trans women and femmes of color. We won’t go back. This is the time to fight to maintain and surpass those gains.

Many people now know that women are the fastest growing prison and jail populations. Here’s a helpful factsheet on how we can Interrupt the Criminalization of Women, Trans and Gender Nonconforming People.