JUSTICE COLLECTIVE IS A BERLIN-BASED PROJECT THAT ACTS
to reveal and challenge how governments police and 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 end societies’ reliance on policing, punishment, and prisons. To build communities that choose justice over jails and care over cages.
to build and connect across movements and borders — because punishment is a common policy response across different parts of society (in schools, welfare systems, healthcare) and different parts of the globe.
Initiatives
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Racism on Trial
Racism on Trial is a campaign initiated by Justice Collective to reveal and resist racism in Germany’s criminal legal system.
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Disrupting mass criminalization
Day in and day out, the criminal legal system punishes people experiencing poverty, people from racialized groups, migrantized people, and others at these and other intersections. This is not a bug but a feature of the system.
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Resisting tough-on-migrant politics
Ascendant in politics and in public discourse is the stigmatizing narrative that migrants are responsible for rising crime. What follows from this narrative is demands for tough-on-crime, tough-on-migrant policies: Closed borders, stricter criminal penalties, and additional resources for the police. We act to resist these politics.
Learn more
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What is courtwatching?
Explore our how-to-guide for people interested in courtwatching locally.
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Visit Racism on Trial
Visit the Racism on Trial website.
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Police crime data do not tell us about safety
Justice Collective and a coalition of over 40 academics and members of civil society warn against the weaponization of police crime data to spread false narratives about rising so-called “migrant crime”.
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Campaign demands
Demands for non-reformist reforms to the criminal legal system 2025.
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Justice Collective testimony to UN
Along with partners, Justice Collective urges the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to demand a Europe-wide stop to the criminalization of poverty, racist police practices, and debtor’s prisons.
Get Involved
DONATE
Justice Collective’s independent, critical, and responsive activism and research is made possible through individual donations.
You can support our work here or by donating directly via our IBAN: DE10 1005 0000 0191 1189 74.
CONTACT
Contact us at info[at]justice-collective.org