The end of prisons : : reflections from the decarceration movement / / edited by Mechthild E. Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella II.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume 261
• TeilnehmendeR: Nagel, Mechthild E.,; Nocella, Anthony J. II,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, 2013.; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 261.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; IMPRISONING THE NINETY-NINE PERCENT /; THE RISE OF THE TERRORIZATION OF DISSENT /; RETHINKING THE “SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE” /; CRIMINALIZATION OF CULTURE AND THE RISE OF DISSENT /; IMPRISONING FOREIGN NATIONALS /; RESERVATIONS AS PRISONS /; THE TENSION BETWEEN ABOLITION AND REFORM /; CAGING SEX OFFENDERS /; QUEER (IN)EQUALITIES: IMPRISONING LGBTQ PEOPLE /; IMPRISONING NATURE /; CONTROL AND INCARCERATION OF HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN BEINGS /; PATRIARCHAL IDEOLOGIES AND WOMEN’S DOMESTICATION /; THOUGHTS FROM AN ELDER ABOLITIONIST /; AN UBUNTU ETHIC OF PUNISHMENT /; WORKS CITED --; ABOUT THE AUTHORS --; NAME INDEX --; SUBJECT INDEX --; VIBS.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9401209235
• ISSN: 0929-8436
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mechthild E. Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella II.

This book brings together a collection of social justice scholars and activists who take Foucault’s concept of discipline and punishment to explain how prisons are constructed in society from nursing homes to zoos. This book expands the concept of prison to include any institution that dominates, oppresses, and controls. Criminologists and others, who have been concerned with reforming or dismantling the criminal justice system, have mostly avoided to look at larger carceral structures in society. In this book, for example, scholars and activists question the way patriarchy has incapacitated women and imagine the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities. In a time when popular sentiment critiques the dominant role of the elites (the “one percenters”), the state’s role in policing dissenting voices, school children, LGBTQ persons, people of color, and American Indian Nations, needs to be investigated. A prison, as defined in this book, is an institution or system that oppresses and does not allow freedom for a particular group. Within this definition, we include the imprisonment of nonhuman animals and plants, which are too often overlooked.