The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition (Routledge International Handbooks)

The __Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition__ provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21^st^-century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for local and global abolitionist ideas and interventions over the coming decade. Penal abolitionists question the legitimacy of criminal law, policing, courts, prisons and more broadly the idea of punishment, to argue that rather than effectively handling or solving social problems, interpersonal disputes, conflicts and harms, they actually increase individual and societal problems. The __Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition__ is organized around six key themes: * Social movements and abolition organizing * Critical resistance to the penal state * Voices from imprisoned and marginalized communities * Diversity of abolitionist thought * International perspectives on abolitionism * Building new justice practices as a response to social and individual wrongdoing. A global-centred and world-encompassing project, this book provides the reader with an alternative and critical perspective from which to reflect and raises the visibility of abolitionist ideas and strategies in a time when there is considerable discussion of how we will move forward in response to what has given rise to the criminalizing system: white supremacy, racial capitalism and human wrongdoing. It is essential reading for all those engaged with punishment and penology, criminology, sociology, corrections and critical prisons studies. It will appeal to any reader who seeks an innovative response to the calamitous failures of the modern criminalizing system. The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st-century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for local and global abolitionist ideas and interventions over the coming decade. Penal abolitionists question the legitimacy of criminal law, policing, courts, prisons and more broadly the idea of punishment, to argue that rather than effectively handling or solving social problems, interpersonal disputes, conflicts and harms, they actually increase individual and societal problems. The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition is organized around six key themes: Social movements and abolition organizing Critical resistance of the penal state Voices from imprisoned and marginalized communities Diversity of abolitionist thought International perspectives on abolitionism Building new justice practices as a response to social and individual wrongdoing. A global-centred and world-encompassing project, this book provides the reader with an alternative and critical perspective from which to reflect and raises the visibility of abolitionist ideas and strategies in a time when there is considerable discussion of how we will move forward in response to what has given rise to the criminalizing system: white supremacy, racial capitalism, patriarchal power and human wrongdoing. It is essential reading for all those engaged with punishment and penology, criminology, sociology, corrections and critical prisons studies. It will appeal to any reader who seeks an innovative response to the calamitous failures of the modern criminalizing system. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication Page 6 Contents 8 List of contributors 14 Foreword 21 Preface 25 Introduction: the six hues of penal abolitionism 30 Part 1 Abolition now: social movements in abolitionism 42 1 Escaping the carceral state 44 2 Musselman 48 3 A word waiting to happen: Sisters Inside’s abolition journey 50 4 Abolitionist reforms 61 5 The case against prisons 68 6 Lessons from the prison abolitionist movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand 79 7 Building movements to abolish prisons in America 89 8 Abolitionist media making 93 9 The agricultural industrial complex: abolition and subversion 104 Part 2 Resisting penal subjugation 114 10 Watches 116 11 A failed penal system 117 12 Concerning the abolition of prisons from the perspective of a long-term prisoner 120 13 The maroon as abolitionist: on fugitivity and gangs in Cape Town 125 14 “Dare to struggle, dare to win”: U.S. prisoners collectively resisting against systems of death 135 15 ‘Help me please’: death and self-harm in male prisons in England and Wales 148 16 Prison is a place 160 17 Prisons are broken 161 18 If these walls could talk 164 19 Emerging from a colonialist and punitive era? A story of prison abolition in Aotearoa/New Zealand 168 20 Feminist and other abolitionist initiatives in modern Spain 179 21 Prison abolition movement in France: theoretical and tactical debates since the 1970s 189 22 My child, questions 200 Part 3 Abolitionism is for the oppressed 202 23 The struggle for individual and human rights within an oppressive dystopian totalitarian regime 204 24 Journal entry: December 1, 2018 206 25 Queering penal abolition 208 26 Queer abolitionist alternatives to criminalising hate violence 219 27 Surviving domestic violence and its consequences: in the ‘good ole boy state’ of Tennessee 230 28 Cruel and unusual punishment: the need to abolish prisons from the perspective of a person with a disability 232 29 Enabling penal abolitionism: the need for reciprocal dialogue between critical disability studies and penal abolitionism 235 30 Barred by the maddening state: mental health and incarceration in the heterosexist, anti-Black, settler colonial carceral state 246 31 Political prisoner: an Irish Republican in the British penal system 258 Part 4 Abolitionism: decolonizing, decriminalizing and decarcerating 270 32 If I were a nuclear power plant 272 33 Count 273 34 My prison experience 275 35 Prisons as colonial relics: anti-prison thought and Ghanaian history 277 36 Thinking beyond penal reform in India: questioning the logic of colonial punishments 287 37 A disbelief in colonial penality: settler colonialism and abolitionism 298 38 The NSW Prisoners Action Group submission to the Nagle Royal Commission 309 39 Mestizo penal abolitionism: the case of Argentina 320 40 Transitional justice in Rwanda and South Africa 331 41 Penal abolitionism and restorative justice in Brazil: towards a transformative justice model? 341 42 As goes the South, so goes the nation: abolition as a regional force in the United States 351 Part 5 Abolitionist reimaginings 362 43 The systems 364 44 Security detention 365 45 Abolition as radical reform 366 46 The “dark matter” of justice: penal abolition practices in everyday life 372 47 The revolutionary consciousness of abolition: social morality and value-based praxis 383 48 War, peace and penal abolition in the north of Ireland 394 49 Rethinking punitive paternalism: abolitionism, the personal and political 406 50 Planning prisons and imagining abolition in Appalachia 416 51 Beyond racial capitalism’s spacetime: unleashing the Utopian imagination for youth justice 428 52 Overcoming obstacles to abolition and challenging the myths of imprisonment 440 Part 6 Activist toolbox: abolitionist campaign tools, manifestos and statements 450 1 Our values and vision 452 2 Inclusive support: a guide to our model of service for new Sisters Inside workers 457 3 Abolition organizing toolkit (selections) 467 4 Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing 480 5 Abolitionist demands: toward the end of prisons in Aotearoa 485 Index 488 Activist,Criminology;,Penology;,European,Group,for,the,Study,of,Deviance,and,Social,Control;,Punishment,and,Society;,Imprisonment;,Critical,Prison,Studies;,Critical,Carceral,Studies;,Penality;,Social,Problems;,Criminal,Justice,Ethics;,Prisoner,rights;,The,penal,state;,Abolition;,Abolitionism Activist Criminology,Penology,European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control,Punishment and Society,Imprisonment,Critical Prison Studies,Critical Carceral Studies,Penality,Social Problems,Criminal Justice Ethics,Prisoner rights,The penal state,Abolition,Abolitionism "The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st Century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for local and global abolitionist ideas and interventions over the coming decade. Penal abolitionists question the legitimacy of criminal law, policing, courts, prisons and more broadly the idea of punishment, to argue that rather than effectively handling or solving social problems, inter-personal disputes, conflicts and harms, they actually increase individual and societal problems. The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition is organized around six key themes: Social movements and abolition organizing, Critiques of resistance to the penal state, Voices from imprisoned and marginalized communities, Diversity of abolitionist thought, International perspectives on abolitionism, Building new justice practices as a response to social and individual wrongdoing. A global-centered and world-encompassing project, this book provides the reader with an alternative and critical perspective from which to reflect, and raises the visibility of abolitionist ideas and strategies in a time when there is considerable discussion of how we will move forward in response to what has given rise to the criminalizing system: white supremacy, racial capitalism, and human wrongdoing. It is essential reading for all those engaged with punishment and penology, criminology, sociology, corrections and critical prisons studies. It will appeal to any reader who seeks an innovative response to the calamitous failures of the modern criminalizing system"-- Provided by publisher