Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures (Routledge Studies in Penal Abolition and Transformative Justice)

__Contesting Carceral Logic__ provides an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of how carceral logic is embedded within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the harms and critiques of using carceral logic to respond to human wrongdoing, and exploring penal abolition thought. With chapters from scholars across many disciplines, people in prison, as well as penal abolition activists, the book explores what a future without carceral logic would look like, as well as how such a future is to be developed. The book is also an exploration of penal abolition thought as it is developing in the twenty-first century. Diverse geographical, cultural, identity and experiential frames inform the book’s themes of analysing carceral logic as it harms disparate people in disparate places, creating anti-carceral knowledge, exploring case studies pointing to radical alternatives, and to contesting carceral logic from below. Ultimately, __Contesting Carceral Logic__ provides the reader with an alternative and critical perspective from which to reflect on carceral logic, the punitive state and the criminalizing systems that almost exclusively dominate across the world. Finally, it raises the questions of how we are to build communities as well as transform our response to human wrongdoing in ways that are not defined by racism/ethnocentrism, class war and heteropatriarchy. __Contesting Carceral Logic__ will be of great interest to not only scholars and activists, but also provides an introduction to key carceral issues and debates for students of penology, criminology, social policy, geography, politics, philosophy, social work and social history programmes in countries all around the world. This book provides an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of how carceral logic is embedded within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the harms and critiques of using carceral logic to respond to human wrongdoing, and exploring penal abolition thought. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of contributors 12 Acknowledgments 16 Foreword 18 Introduction: penal abolitionism as a challenge to carceral logic 24 PART I: The harms of carceral logic: people and places 38 1 Prison provokes people into being more aggressive, hypersexualized, and prone to crime 40 2 If I weren’t white I’d be dead 42 3 Reader 43 4 Carceral other and severing of people, place and land: redefining the politics of abolition through an anti-colonial framework 45 5 The lawlessness of law: outlaw nation, settler colonialism, and a possessive investment in whiteness 59 6 Not behind bars: the rippling of carceral habitus and corrective violence on the family and community life of prison guards 73 PART II: Creating anti-carceral knowledge 88 7 Start 90 8 The only advice I got is “Stay out of trouble” 91 9 Designed to bury you in a mental grave 93 10 The courtroom 97 11 Generating abolitionist affect : decarceral feminist methodologies and the closure of Holloway Prison 100 12 “There is no justice, there is just us!” Towards a postcolonial feminist critique of policing using the example of racial profiling in Europe 113 13 Against penal humanism: a Foucaudian critique 128 PART III: Case studies pointing to radical alternatives 140 14 Feet on the ground 142 15 The system is designed for me to fail 143 16 Incarceration as the worst possible treatment for mental illness 148 17 The rhetoric of dehumanization: Japanese American concentration camps and the US criminalizing system 155 18 RAP’s significance to the formation of the British abolitionist movement 170 19 The struggle over the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre : challenging neutralization techniques, fighting state inertia 183 PART IV: Resisting carceral logic 198 20 Something from here 200 21 Disenthrall 201 22 Contesting the collateral damages of imprisonment from below 207 23 Land, race and state: situating the carceral state and the mass imprisonment of Māori in Aotearoa within the settler-colonial landscape 221 24 Extreme hazards 233 Index 234 Carceral,Logic;,Anti-carceral,Knowledge;,Courtroom;,Radical,Alternatives;,Extreme,Hazards Carceral Logic,Anti-carceral Knowledge,Courtroom,Radical Alternatives,Extreme Hazards "Contesting Carceral Logic provides an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of how carceral logic is embedded within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the harms and critiques of using carceral logic to respond to human wrongdoing, and exploring penal abolition thought. With chapters from scholars across many disciplines, people in prison, as well as penal abolition activists, the book explores what a future without carceral logic would look like, as well as how such a future is to be developed. The book is also an exploration of penal abolition thought as it is developing in the twenty first century. Diverse geographical, cultural, identity and experiential frames inform the book's themes of analysing carceral logic as it harms disparate people in disparate places, creating anti-carceral knowledge, exploring case studies pointing to radical alternatives, and to contesting carceral logic from below. Ultimately, Contesting Carceral Logic provides the reader with an alternative and critical perspective from which to reflect on carceral logic, the punitive state, and the criminalizing systems that almost exclusively dominate across the world. Finally, it raises the questions of how we are to build communities as well as transform our response to human wrongdoing in ways that are not defined by racism/ethnocentrism, class war, and heteropatriarchy. Contesting Carceral Logic will be of great interest to not only scholars and activists, but also provides an introduction to key carceral issues and debates for students of penology, criminology, social policy, geography, politics, philosophy, social work, and social history programs in countries all around the world"-- Provided by publisher