The Idea of Prison Abolition / / Tommie Shelby.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Reform or Abolition?
- Chapter 1. Army of the Wronged: Political Prisoners and Black Radicalism
- Chapter 2. The Uses and Abuses of Incarceration: Punishment, Dehumanization, and Slavery
- Chapter 3. A Broken System? Racism and Functional Critique
- Chapter 4. The Prison Industrial Complex: Profit, Privatization, and the Circumstances of Injustice
- Chapter 5. Responding to Crime: Incarceration and Its Alternatives
- Chapter 6. Dreaming Big: Utopian Imagination and Structural Transformation
- Notes
- Index