Against Imprisonment
An Anthology of Abolitionist Essays
Erschienen am 28. Februar 2018
280 Seiten
978-1-910979-54-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Provides a compelling analysis of the failings of imprisonment. Sheds new light on this pressing topic. Explains why prisons do not work for most offenders.
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Copyright and publication details
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- The author of the Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Against Imprisonment
- The penal utopia (or how we learn to stop worrying and to love the prison)
- The penal dystopia (or punishing the poor with a good conscience)
- Table 1: Social Background of Prisoners in England and Wales in 2016
- The point is to change it (or act upon a bad conscience)
- Walking Among the Graves of the Living
- Learning from the chaplains
- Bearing witness to denial
- Contradictions, tensions and abolitionist praxis
- Escaping the Logic of "Crime"
- Ontological reality
- People in glass houses should not throw stones
- Responsibilities for the Other
- Confronting the logic of "crime"
- Justifications of Punishment and Questions of Penal Legitimacy
- Consequentialism
- Retributivism
- Abolitionism
- Table 2: "Criminal Justice" or Restorative Justice Values?
- The magician's trick
- The Changing Face of the Prison
- Less eligibility and the treatment and training ideology
- The crisis of containment
- The end of an era
- The liberal penological consensus
- The Woolf agenda
- Back from the future
- Coming full circle
- From "Rehabilitation Revolution" to "Safety and Reform"
- Riding on the penal merry-go-round
- Problematising "Common-sense" Understandings of Prison Violence
- Constructing the narrative
- Table 3: Proportion of Sampled Articles Including Prison Officer Voice
- Prison safety and reform
- Table 4: Number of Staff in 143 prisons in 1835
- Table 5: Fatal and Serious Accidents and Occupations in 1923
- Always report assaults
- Contextualising the past: beyond agnosis, silencing and denial
- Contesting the Spirit of Death
- Civil death
- Social death
- Corporeal death
- Contesting the spirit of death
- A matter of life and death
- Saying NO to the Mega-prison
- HMP Hindley: The worst prison in the country
- Sentencing the poor to a life of misery
- Table 6: Examples of Prison Rates in the Most Deprived Areas
- Table 7: Examples of Prison Rates in the Least Deprived Areas
- Welfare cuts and prison bruises
- The toxic mega-prison
- Invest in communities, not prisons
- Unequalled in Pain
- Economic and social inequalities
- Tough talk, suitable enemies and the punitive trap
- Conclusion: What is to be done?
- Bibliography
- Index
- The Maze Prison
- Suicide in Prisons
- Transgender Behind Prison Walls
- Journey to Release
- Prison on Trial
- Back cover
