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Transformative Justice and Community Accountability ‘Transformative Justice and Community Accountability (TJ/CA) are responses to violence which: * Do not create more harm/violence (e.g. prisons, the police, the criminal legal system) and that do not perpetuate systemic violence (e.g. oppression, harmful societal norms, vigilantism, criminalization). * Work to meet immediate needs for justice (e.g. safety, healing, connection, accountability); while also working towards a long-term vision of liberation (e.g. a world without prisons and oppression where sexual violence doesn’t exist.) * Work to address current incidences of violence in ways that will shift the conditions that allowed that violence to happen, in ways that prevent future incidences of violence and ultimately end violence. * Understand that individual acts of harm do not only have individual impact and therefore need to be solved collectively. npact, but also have collective ‘Through shared principles, values and practices everyday people have been creatively working to respond to violence within their communities. Many of these communities or people either cannot or do not want to call, the police because of risk of deportation, police harassment and brutality, further criminalization, fear of exile from their community, ete. TJICA came out of these communities and more recently, just over a decade ago, community groups and organizations began building a shared framework and language around this work. Some of the pivotal groups


Community Accountability



lence which:
the police, the criminal legal system) and that do
jon, harmful societal norms, vigilantism,

ty (TJ/CA) are responses to
mn





g. safety, healing, connection, accountability); while
iberation (¢.g. a world without prisons and oppression

ce in ways that will shift the conditions that allowed
future incidences of violence and ultimately end

ot only have individual
ctively.



pact, but also have collective

y people have been creatively working to respond to
iunities or people either cannot or do not want to call
ent and brutality, further criminalization, fear of exile

, just over a decade ago, community groups and

iguage around this work. Some of the pivotal groups
Transformative Justice and Community Accountability

‘Transformative Justice and Community Accountability (TJ/CA) are responses to violence which:

* Do not create more harm/violence (e.g. prisons, the police, the criminal legal system) and that do
not perpetuate systemic violence (e.g. oppression, harmful societal norms, vigilantism,
criminalization).

* Work to meet immediate needs for justice (e.g. safety, healing, connection, accountability); while
also working towards a long-term vision of liberation (e.g. a world without prisons and oppression
where sexual violence doesn’t exist.)

* Work to address current incidences of violence in ways that will shift the conditions that allowed
that violence to happen, in ways that prevent future incidences of violence and ultimately end
violence.

* Understand that individual acts of harm do not only have individual
impact and therefore need to be solved collectively.





npact, but also have collective

‘Through shared principles, values and practices everyday people have been creatively working to respond to
violence within their communities. Many of these communities or people either cannot or do not want to call,
the police because of risk of deportation, police harassment and brutality, further criminalization, fear of exile
from their community, ete.

TJICA came out of these communities and more recently, just over a decade ago, community groups and

organizations began building a shared framework and language around this work. Some of the pivotal groups