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)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- IMPRISONING THE NINETY-NINE PERCENT / Mechthild Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella -- THE RISE OF THE TERRORIZATION OF DISSENT / Anthony J. Nocella -- RETHINKING THE “SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE” / David Gabbard -- CRIMINALIZATION OF CULTURE AND THE RISE OF DISSENT / Ernesto Aguilar and Melissa Chiprin -- IMPRISONING FOREIGN NATIONALS / Ute Ritz-Deutch -- RESERVATIONS AS PRISONS / Ben Carnes -- THE TENSION BETWEEN ABOLITION AND REFORM / Liat Ben-Moshe -- CAGING SEX OFFENDERS / Dennis J. Stevens -- QUEER (IN)EQUALITIES: IMPRISONING LGBTQ PEOPLE / Amit Taneja -- IMPRISONING NATURE / Amy J. Fitzgerald -- CONTROL AND INCARCERATION OF HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN BEINGS / Jenna McDavid -- PATRIARCHAL IDEOLOGIES AND WOMEN’S DOMESTICATION / Mechthild Nagel -- THOUGHTS FROM AN ELDER ABOLITIONIST / Tiyo Attallah Salah-El -- AN UBUNTU ETHIC OF PUNISHMENT / Mechthild Nagel -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- VIBS.