Refers to the act of eradicating a system or practice, particularly one that is considered objectionable or harmful. Prison abolition, for example, calls for dismantling the prison industrial complex through such strategies as decriminalizing homelessness and drug use, and reallocating prison funds to rehabilitation facilities, mental health resources, and housing (see Sheena Hoszko, Robyn Maynard, Beverly Bain, Ashley Hunt, Orev Reena Katz). For many abolitionists, the mobilization of this term directly ties prison abolition to histories of slavery abolitionism in the United States. Rather than an endpoint, abolitionism is often characterized as a horizon, which is approached through performance, community-building, care-taking, or care-giving (see Carolyn Lazard, Take Care).