What possibilities arise when law-school clinics experiment in challenging a welloiled
system at its untouched margins, within a collective, community-based movement whose …

Among a growing consensus that the criminal legal system is oversized, racist, and
ineffective at preventing harm, the" child welfare"/family-policing system 1 continues to be …

Y or insecure housing, they will coerce families into an onerous regimen of supervision that
rarely addresses their needs. More disruptive still is the forcible family separation that often …

Rise is an advocacy organization in New York City dedicated to building the power of
parents affected by the family policing system. Rise envisions communities free from …

Recent calls to defund the police were quickly followed by calls to fund social service
agencies, including the family regulation apparatus. These demands fail to consider the …

The child welfare system is the system through which US state authorities identify and
intervene in families seen as posing a risk of abuse or neglect to their children. Impacted …

Quality-of-life policing, responsive to the concerns of urban communities, presents a
profound paradox. On the one hand, the collateral effects of drug use, especially in public …

The expertise and leadership of parents and youth with lived experience of family policing
belong at the center of the movement to abolish the system, just as Black folk are centered in …

The child froze and didn't say another word. At the entrance of the park, a police car pulled
in. Prior to seeing the car, she had talked easily to the emergency medical staff who had …

We, a team of law students in Community Lawyering'and I, meet Maria2 in a juvenile
cellblock. This is her first experience with secure confinement. She is fourteen years old, a …