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*Decline of the Ideal (Warehousing) | *Decline of the Ideal (Warehousing) | ||
*Social basis of abolition: Prison is old-fashioned (Deleuze). Widening gap between value of freedom of movement and communication on the one and cage-confinement on the other hand. | *Social basis of abolition: Prison is old-fashioned (Deleuze). Widening gap between value of freedom of movement and communication on the one and cage-confinement on the other hand. | ||
====Waht is to be abolished?==== | |||
*Prison as punishment, i.e. as a punitive reaction to crime, i.e. as a legal reaction to a violation of criminal law that consists of the intentional infliction of suffering to make someone "pay" for his crime. | |||
*Not: confinement per se. Not confinement for medical reasons or reasons of public security (serial killer). | |||
*Empirical hypothesis: public security can be guaranteed as well as with prisons or even better by ambulatory measures. | |||
====Starting a Movement==== | ====Starting a Movement==== | ||
*Foucault and France. | *Foucault and France. | ||
*RAP in Great Britain | |||
*RAF in Germany | *RAF in Germany | ||
*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. | *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. | |||
Questions: negative reforms only (Mathiesen, Frankfurter Schule, ...) oder positive Vorschläge (Thomas Bianchi). | |||
===Criminal Justice System=== | ===Criminal Justice System=== | ||