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The (slightly abolitionist) movement for prison reduction is driven by a certain scepticism towards the possibility of making prisons as humane and effective as they were intended to be. Former prison director and later professor of criminology Andrew Rutherford argues for a radical reduction of the prison system in his 1987 book Prisons and the Process of Justice. | The (slightly abolitionist) movement for prison reduction is driven by a certain scepticism towards the possibility of making prisons as humane and effective as they were intended to be. Former prison director and later professor of criminology Andrew Rutherford argues for a radical reduction of the prison system in his 1987 book Prisons and the Process of Justice. | ||
The movement to abolish prisons once and for all as a means of punishment is not very visible today, to say the least. To find convinced prison abolitionists one has to turn to the usual suspects like the Quaker community and similar religious groups. | The movement to abolish prisons once and for all as a means of punishment is not very visible today, to say the least. To find convinced prison abolitionists one has to turn to the usual suspects like the Quaker community and similar religious groups. The groups during Foucault's times in France (GIP), in Britain (RAP), in Germany (KRAK), in Scandinavia (KROM, KRUM) and other countries have had their heydays. The small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Black_Cross Anarchist Black Cross] continues its frail existence. More continuity can be found with faith-based initiatives in North America. The Quakers, once the inventors of the modern prison, have been at the forefront of questioning the sense of prisons altogether and of searching for better alternatives. The International Conference on Prison Abolition (ICOPA) can be seen as a contemporary attempt to continue abolitionist traditions. Angela Davis attended the Toronto ICOPA conference and showed herself to be both positively and negatively surprised: she liked the fact that in these reactionary times the abolitionist idea was still being upheld, but she found that the - remarkable - fiath based initiatives showed a certain racial bias and narrowness, thus revealing a counterproductive isolation from relevant movements outside its circles. | ||
The reasons for the weakness of the prison abolition movement are not difficult to detect: | The reasons for the weakness of the prison abolition movement are not difficult to detect: | ||
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*Empirical hypothesis: public security can be guaranteed as well as with prisons or even better by ambulatory measures. | *Empirical hypothesis: public security can be guaranteed as well as with prisons or even better by ambulatory measures. | ||
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Questions: negative reforms only (Mathiesen, Frankfurter Schule, ...) oder positive Vorschläge (Thomas Bianchi). | Questions: negative reforms only (Mathiesen, Frankfurter Schule, ...) oder positive Vorschläge (Thomas Bianchi). | ||
Problem der moralischen Basis des Abolitionsdiskurses: keine unschuldigen Opfer wie die Sklaven, sondern schuldige Täter. | Problem der moralischen Basis des Abolitionsdiskurses: keine unschuldigen Opfer wie die Sklaven, sondern schuldige Täter. | ||