The End of Prisons

Reflections from the Decarceration Movement
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3656-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 261, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Social Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nagel, Mechthild E.

Nocella II, Anthony J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon: Editorial Foreword
Acknowledgments
Mechthild Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella II: Introduction: Imprisoning the Ninety-Nine Percent
Anthony J. Nocella II: The Rise of the Terrorization of Dissent
David Gabbard: Rethinking the “School to Prison Pipeline”
Ernesto Aguilar and Melissa Chiprin: Criminalization of Culture and the Rise of Dissent
Ute Ritz-Deutch: Imprisoning Foreign Nationals
Ben Carnes: Reservations as Prisons
Liat Ben-Moshe: The Tension between Abolition and Reform
Dennis J. Stevens: Caging Sex Offenders
Amit Taneja: Queer (In)equalities: Imprisoning LGBTQ People
Amy J. Fitzgerald: Imprisoning Nature
Jenna McDavid: Control and Incarceration of Human and Non-Human Beings
Mechthild Nagel: Patriarchal Ideologies and Women’s Domestication
Tiyo Attallah Salah-El: Thoughts from an Elder Abolitionist
Mechthild Nagel: An Ubuntu Ethic of Punishment
Works Cited
About the Authors
Name Index
Subject Index