The Idea of Prison Abolition (eBook)

Tommie Shelby (Autor)

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2022
228 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22977-5 (ISBN)

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An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are extremely harsh. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as neoslavery or ';the new Jim Crow.' Can the practice of imprisonment be reformed, or does justice require it to be ended altogether? In The Idea of Prison Abolition, Tommie Shelby examines the abolitionist case against prisons and its formidable challenge to would-be prison reformers.Philosophers have long theorized punishment and its justifications, but they haven't paid enough attention to incarceration or its related problems in societies structured by racial and economic injustice. Taking up this urgent topic, Shelby argues that prisons, once reformed and under the right circumstances, can be legitimate and effective tools of crime control. Yet he draws on insights from black radicals and leading prison abolitionists, especially Angela Davis, to argue that we should dramatically decrease imprisonment and think beyond bars when responding to the problem of crime.While a world without prisons might be utopian, The Idea of Prison Abolition makes the case that we can make meaningful progress toward this ideal by abolishing the structural injustices that too often lead to crime and its harmful consequences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
• Reihe/Serie: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Accountability • acquittal • activism • addiction • African socialism • Amnesty • Analytical Marxism • Anti-Capitalism • anti-racism • Apartheid • A Theory of Justice • attempt • Attica Correctional Facility • bail • Black Liberation Army • Capitalism • Capital punishment • Censure • Chokehold • Civil confinement • civil liberties • class stratification • Coercion • community service • Counter-Insurgency • Crime • Crime Control • crime prevention • criminalization • criminal justice • Criminal Law • Criminology • crisis intervention • Critical theory • Criticism • Criticism of capitalism • critique • dehumanization • Deinstitutionalisation • demagogue • Democratic Socialism • Desperation (novel) • Deterrence (legal) • Deviance (sociology) • Discipline and Punish • economic freedom • egalitarianism • Employment • Expropriation • Forfeiture (law) • Harriet Tubman • Harvard University Press • Huey P. Newton • hunger strike • Ideology • imperialism • Imprisonment • Incapacitation (penology) • indictment • Institution • Institutional Racism • Insurgency • involuntary servitude • larceny • Law and order (politics) • Law enforcement • law of war • Liberalism • liberation movement • Make a Difference • market socialism • Marxism • Marxist literary criticism • Marx's theory of history • Moral Suasion • Moratorium (law) • Necessity • Neoliberalism • New Prison • Nomos (sociology) • Oppression • Outsourcing • Pacifism • Penology • Persuasion (novel) • philosophical methodology • Philosophy • plea bargain • Police • Political culture • Political Philosophy • Political prisoner • post-capitalism • Power of arrest • printing • Prison • prison cell • Prisoner • Prisoner of War • Prison–industrial complex • Prison Officer • Prison Policy Initiative • Prison Reform • prison riot • Prison uniform • private prison • Privatization • Probation • probation officer • Proscription • punishment • racial integration • Racial segregation • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Recidivism • Redress • Regulation • Rehabilitation (penology) • reinvestment • Remand (detention) • Reprisal • Restorative Justice • Retributive Justice • Revolutionary Suicide • Self-defense (Sweden) • Sentence (law) • Slave name • Slave Narrative • Slave Rebellion • Slavery • Slavery in the United States • Slum • Social Contract • Social Criticism • Social Movement • Social practice (art) • social rejection • social relation • social revolution • solitary confinement • South Africa • Suicide watch • The New Jim Crow • The Oppressed • Theoretician (Marxism) • The Pacifist • Torture • traffic stop • Transformative Justice • Transitional Justice • victimology • Voluntary manslaughter • wage slavery • Walnut Street Prison • Welfare State • wrongdoing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22977-5 / 0691229775
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22977-5 / 9780691229775