For Abolition: Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics
David Scott
(Author)
Joe Sim
(Foreword by)
Description
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'.
Product Details
Price
$39.95
Publisher
Waterside Press
Publish Date
November 05, 2020
Pages
268
Dimensions
6.14 X 9.21 X 0.56 inches | 0.84 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781909976825
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David Scott is emeritus professor of curriculum, learning, and assessment at the Instute of Education, UCL's faculty of edcuation and society, UK.
Joe Sim is Professor of Criminology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion at Liverpool John Moores University.