The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: the six hues of penal abolitionism
Part 1 Abolition now: social movements in abolitionism
1 Escaping the carceral state
2 Musselman
3 A word waiting to happen: Sisters Inside’s abolition journey
4 Abolitionist reforms
5 The case against prisons
6 Lessons from the prison abolitionist movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand
7 Building movements to abolish prisons in America
8 Abolitionist media making
9 The agricultural industrial complex: abolition and subversion
Part 2 Resisting penal subjugation
10 Watches
11 A failed penal system
12 Concerning the abolition of prisons from the perspective of a long-term prisoner
13 The maroon as abolitionist: on fugitivity and gangs in Cape Town
14 “Dare to struggle, dare to win”: U.S. prisoners collectively resisting against systems of death
15 ‘Help me please’: death and self-harm in male prisons in England and Wales
16 Prison is a place
17 Prisons are broken
18 If these walls could talk
19 Emerging from a colonialist and punitive era? A story of prison abolition in Aotearoa/New Zealand
20 Feminist and other abolitionist initiatives in modern Spain
21 Prison abolition movement in France: theoretical and tactical debates since the 1970s
22 My child, questions
Part 3 Abolitionism is for the oppressed
23 The struggle for individual and human rights within an oppressive dystopian totalitarian regime
24 Journal entry: December 1, 2018
25 Queering penal abolition
26 Queer abolitionist alternatives to criminalising hate violence
27 Surviving domestic violence and its consequences: in the ‘good ole boy state’ of Tennessee
28 Cruel and unusual punishment: the need to abolish prisons from the perspective of a person with a disability
29 Enabling penal abolitionism: the need for reciprocal dialogue between critical disability studies and penal abolitionism
30 Barred by the maddening state: mental health and incarceration in the heterosexist, anti-Black, settler colonial carceral state
31 Political prisoner: an Irish Republican in the British penal system
Part 4 Abolitionism: decolonizing, decriminalizing and decarcerating
32 If I were a nuclear power plant
33 Count
34 My prison experience
35 Prisons as colonial relics: anti-prison thought and Ghanaian history
36 Thinking beyond penal reform in India: questioning the logic of colonial punishments
37 A disbelief in colonial penality: settler colonialism and abolitionism
38 The NSW Prisoners Action Group submission to the Nagle Royal Commission
39 Mestizo penal abolitionism: the case of Argentina
40 Transitional justice in Rwanda and South Africa
41 Penal abolitionism and restorative justice in Brazil: towards a transformative justice model?
42 As goes the South, so goes the nation: abolition as a regional force in the United States
Part 5 Abolitionist reimaginings
43 The systems
44 Security detention
45 Abolition as radical reform
46 The “dark matter” of justice: penal abolition practices in everyday life
47 The revolutionary consciousness of abolition: social morality and value-based praxis
48 War, peace and penal abolition in the north of Ireland
49 Rethinking punitive paternalism: abolitionism, the personal and political
50 Planning prisons and imagining abolition in Appalachia
51 Beyond racial capitalism’s spacetime: unleashing the Utopian imagination for youth justice
52 Overcoming obstacles to abolition and challenging the myths of imprisonment
Part 6 Activist toolbox: abolitionist campaign tools, manifestos and statements
1 Our values and vision
2 Inclusive support: a guide to our model of service for new Sisters Inside workers
3 Abolition organizing toolkit (selections)
4 Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing
5 Abolitionist demands: toward the end of prisons in Aotearoa
Index