Against imprisonment : an anthology of abolitionist essays /
Provides a compelling analysis of the failings of imprisonment. Sheds new light on this pressing topic. Explains why prisons do not work for most offenders.
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Hook, Hampshire :
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| 100 | 1 | |a Scott, David Gordon, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Against imprisonment : |b an anthology of abolitionist essays / |c David Scott ; with a foreword by Emma Bell. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Hook, Hampshire : |b Waterside Press, |c 2018. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Copyright and publications details; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; About the author; The author of the Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Against Imprisonment; The penal utopia (or how we learn to stop worrying and to love the prison); The penal dystopia (or punishing the poor with a good conscience); Table 1: Social Background of Prisoners in England and Wales in 2016; The point is to change it (or act upon a bad conscience); Walking Among the Graves of the Living; Learning from the chaplains; Bearing witness to denial; Contradictions, tensions and abolitionist praxis. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Escaping the Logic of â#x80;#x9C;Crimeâ#x80;#x9D;Ontological reality; People in glass houses should not throw stones; Responsibilities for the Other; Confronting the logic of â#x80;#x9C;crimeâ#x80;#x9D;; Justifications of Punishment and Questions of Penal Legitimacy; Consequentialism; Retributivism; Abolitionism; Table 2: â#x80;#x9C;Criminal Justiceâ#x80;#x9D; or Restorative Justice Values?; The magicianâ#x80;#x99;s trick; The Changing Face of the Prison; Less eligibility and the treatment and training ideology; The crisis of containment; The end of an era; The liberal penological consensus; The Woolf agenda; Back from the future. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Coming full circleFrom â#x80;#x9C;Rehabilitation Revolutionâ#x80;#x9D; to â#x80;#x9C;Safety and Reformâ#x80;#x9D;; Riding on the penal merry-go-round; Problematising â#x80;#x9C;Common-senseâ#x80;#x9D; Understandings of Prison Violence; Constructing the narrative; Table 3: Proportion of Sampled Articles Including Prison Officer Voice; Prison safety and reform; Table 4: Number of Staff in 143 prisons in 1835; Table 5: Fatal and Serious Accidents and Occupations in 1923; Always report assaults; Contextualising the past: beyond agnosis, silencing and denial; Contesting the Spirit of Death; Civil death; Social death; Corporeal death. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Contesting the spirit of deathA matter of life and death; Saying NO to the Mega-prison; HMP Hindley: The worst prison in the country; Sentencing the poor to a life of misery; Table 6: Examples of Prison Rates in the Most Deprived Areas; Table 7: Examples of Prison Rates in the Least Deprived Areas; Welfare cuts and prison bruises; The toxic mega-prison; Invest in communities, not prisons; Unequalled in Pain; Economic and social inequalities; Tough talk, suitable enemies and the punitive trap; Conclusion: What is to be done?; Bibliography; Index; The Maze Prison; Suicide in Prisons. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Transgender Behind Prison WallsJourney to Release; Prison on Trial; Back cover. | |
| 520 | |a Provides a compelling analysis of the failings of imprisonment. Sheds new light on this pressing topic. Explains why prisons do not work for most offenders. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Imprisonment |x Philosophy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Imprisonment. | |
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