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novella42's review against another edition
5.0
"What would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice?
"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society."
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Murder, Pregnancy, Classism, and Deportation
lucy12345's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Confinement, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Police brutality
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Colonisation
sydneybedell's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Police brutality, Medical content, and Murder
flamingtashhh's review
5.0
Some things I’d like to explore more following this book:
1. The colonization of the land by prisons. What effect on the environment and our connection to it does the logic and PHYSICAL fact of prisons have?
2. Racial capitalism and borders. How does the global migration of labor impact prisons? What similarities does this share with the Atlantic Slave Trade?
3. Gender-making and prisons. What does the logic of prison reform do to our notions of gender? How is this related to colonial notions of gender and citizenship?
4. Punishment and violence, specifically an expansion of the idea that domestic and sexual violence is the basis of punishment in women’s prisons.
There’s more.
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
nickshutter's review against another edition
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Classism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Torture, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, and Murder
Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Islamophobia, Grief, and War