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11 UC Irvine L. Rev. 1291 (2020-2021)
Investing in Alternatives: Three Logics of Criminal System Replacement

handle is hein.journals/ucirvlre11 and id is 1312 raw text is: Investing in Alternatives: Three Logics of Criminal System Replacement Monica C. Bell,* Katherine Beckett** & Forrest Stuart*** What logics underlie the call to defund the police, and how do those logics matter in policy debate? In the wake of widespread protests after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other victims of police violence during the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement's call to defund the police captured the national imagination. Several municipal governments promised to cut funding and contracts for their respective police departments, with mixed results. Because we expect police defunding and reinvestment to remain a central movement demand, this Article explores the demand's discursive and normative terrain. It does so by describing and criticaly engaging three logics of criminal system alternatives that we have observed in activists' demands and organising efforts. Specifically, we theorie investments in social welfare, safety production, and racial reparation as deeply connected but distinct logics that might guide decisions about where and how money should be spent as part of defund initiatives, and we discuss some implications of each for transformational change within and beyond policing. * Associate Professor of Law & Sociology, Yale Law School. We thank the Center for Policing Equity for shepherding this symposium, and we especially recognize and thank Kamilyn Choi, Priyanka Menon, and Adaner Usmani for comprehensive and incisive comments. We are grateful for the opportunity to present this work at the Harvard Department of African and African-American Studies Philosophy, Social Thought, and Criticism Workshop (with special thanks to Brandon Terry and Kierstan Carter); the Square One Justice Roundtable on the Future of Justice Policy on The Values of the Justice System; and the University of Florida Levin College of Law (with particular thanks to Lea Johnston, Mark Fenster, Kenneth Nunn, Andrew Hammond, Stephanie Bornstein, Daniel Sokol, and Jason Nance). ** S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, University of Washington. *** Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford University. 1291

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