Graphic Design, Installation, Photography

The Hopeful Justice Collective is a collaboration between residents of Stoke on Trent, a group of academics (in Social Work, Criminology, Health, Theatre), Restoke, and the Ministry of Justice. The aim of the project is to explore Transformative Justice with community members and people with experience of the justice system in Stoke-on-Trent.

Transformative Justice :

• Is built on the premise that state responses to violence reproduce violence and traumatise people criminal justice agencies fail to advance individual and collective justice thereby perpetuating cycles of abuse.

• Situates individual justice and collective liberation as equally fundamentally intertwined.

• Aims to develop community accountability and engagement to challenge unequal and intersecting power relationships.

• Promotes a bottom-up understanding of the lives and needs of populations without relying on the state.

• Cultivates accountability, healing, and safety by transforming conditions that enable harm.