The term was coined by thinkers Angela Y, Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie in their book Abolition.
[1] Abolitionist Feminist thinkers promote the idea of prison abolition, and embrace an anti-racism, anti-capitalist, anti-violence feminism.
[2][1][3][4] Abolitionist Feminist reject carceral solutions to gender-based violence and propose models of transformative and restorative justice.
[5] Abolitionist Feminists view crime as a fluid concept that is socially constructed as opposed to a natural phenomenon.
[6] Abolitionist Feminists argue feminism and abolition are required to inform one another in order to allow for a greater critique of the carceral system.