"Ever since the [January 6] insurrection, my co-author [assistant professor Heath Pearson] and I have debated the role of defund police/abolitionist principles in the fight against armed white supremacy. 

[In this article ] we make the case for non-punitive interventions, from macro changes, to root-cause-informed immediate interventions like de-radicalization programs and the public health model of violence prevention, [along with] various sociological ideas about how punishment can backfire threaded throughout."

Read Neil and Heath's full article – Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism?