Re-defining Justice and Creating Pathways for Healing: The Limits of the US Legal System and the Promise of Politicised Healing as a Model for Redressing Racialized Harm
摘要
The long history of the Chicago Police Department (CPD)’s racialized violence instructs that when considering widespread multifaceted harm, a single form of justice—or even a combination of several forms of justice combined—provides too limited a framework for recourse and remedy. Instead, a new framework altogether is required. In this article, we briefly summarise more than 100 years on unrelenting racialized violence by the Chicago Police Department. Expanding the analytical framework first offered by Coleen Murphy, we consider seven approaches to justice to determine under which circumstances each particular approach to justice might provide a comprehensive, holistic, and healing measure of relief. Ultimately, we argue that theories of justice are insufficient to redress the harm of police violence and that politicised healing is a promising approach that takes wisdom from syndemic theory for redressing the deep, political and historical roots of racialized police violence.