Abolitionist Voices
David Gordon Scott
Mar 2025 · Policy Press
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About this eBook
Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression.
This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how abolitionist ideas have continued topicality and relevance in the present day and how they can collectively help with devising new ways of thinking about social problems, as well as suggesting alternatives to existing penal policies, practices and institutions.
About the author
David Gordon Scott works at The Open University and is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance.
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