Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis
Carroll Book prize at the World Congress of the International
Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen s "The Politics of
Abolition" is a landmark text in critical criminology. In its
examination of Scandinavian penal policy and call for the abolition
of prisons, this book was enormously influential across Europe and
beyond among criminologists, sociologists and legal scholars as
well as advocates of prisoners rights.
Forty years on and in the context of mass incarceration in many
parts of the world, this book remains relevant to a new generation
of penal scholars. This new edition includes a new introduction
from the author, as well as an afterword that collects
contributions from leading criminologists and inmates from Germany,
England, Norway and the United States to reflect on the development
and current state of the academic literature on penal
abolition.
This book will be suitable for academics and students of
criminology and sociology, as well as those studying political
science. It will also be of great interest to those who read the
original book and are looking for new insights into an issue that
is still as important and topical today as it was forty years
ago."
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