JUSTICE COLLECTIVE IS A BERLIN-BASED PROJECT THAT ACTS:
To reveal how governments punish, including in ways that target people experiencing poverty and inequality, people of racialized groups, and people making a life for themselves in new places.
To build and connect international and internationalist movements — because while local contexts may differ, people in different places confront similar causes of carcerality.
To end societies’ increasing reliance on policing, punishment, and prisons. To build communities that choose justice over jails; care over carcerality.
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PUNISHMENT & INEQUALITY
Over recent decades, income, wealth, and other inequalities have widened. This matters because in practice, all people are not equal before the law. Across institutions, states punish “crimes of poverty” and uses sanctions to govern people met with economic injustice.
PUNISHMENT & RACISM
Punitive politics do not fall equally on all. Disproportionately impacted are people from racialized groups, migrants, and people from other non-majority groups. The broader societal consequences of punishment are also gendered and racialized.
PUNISHMENT IN EUROPE
Unlike in the United States, punishment is hardly politicized in most European countries. But across Europe people are far too often fined, held in pretrial detention, jailed, or otherwise placed under carceral control. And these consequences are disproportionately brought upon racialized people and communities, people with lower incomes, migrants, and other non-majority groups.
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Want to observe court hearings but unsure where to start?
Our new Legal Guide for Courtwatching – created in collaboration with the criminal defense law clinic Freie University Berlin – walks you through every step of the process. This guide goes beyond being a practical resource – it’s an invitation to engage in courtwatching as a form of activism.