Abolitionism: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

*What is to be abolished? All kinds of confinement against a person's will - or only confinement as a form of officially proclaimed legal punishment? Most people would agree that some people have to be kept locked up for reasons of public safety (serial killers). They would probably stay in some kind of confinement even after the abolition of prison as a 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. Confinement for medical reasons or reasons of public security would remain untouched by this abolition.  

*On the other hand it is an empirical question if public security can be guaranteed as well as with prisons or even better by ambulatory measures.

*What are the comparative merits of a purely negative reform strategy (Mathiesen, Frankfurter Schule, ...) and one that proposes alternatives to imprisonment (Thomas Bianchi)?