For Abolition - Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics (Paperback)

According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory struggles for liberation and social justice, this book argues that penal abolitionism should be understood as an important public critical pedagogy and philosophy of hope that can help to reinvigorate democracy and set society on a pathway towards living in a world without prisons. For Abolition draws upon the socialist ethics of dignity, empathy, freedom and paradigm of life to systematically critique imprisonment as a state institution characterised by 'social death'.

General

Imprint:	Waterside Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2020
Authors:	David Scott
Foreword by:	Joe Sim
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	268
ISBN-13:	978-1-909976-82-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General
LSN:	1-909976-82-2
Barcode:	9781909976825

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