Aktualität und Zukunft des Abolitionismus

Elective Affinities

• Deleuze: Prisons belong to the Age of Discipline (after Sovereignty and Before Control)
• Today these elective affinities are withering away. Look at the dissolution of other total institutions.
• Access Society, Identification, surveillance, case work: look at FIFA

Two Ways of Attacking the Prison

Directly

• De-legitimizing deprivation of liberty (confinement in penal institutions) as criminal punishment. Analogy to attacking violations of the human body (amputations, executions etc.) as a punishment.

Indirectly

• Drying out:
  • taking specific groups of people out of prison by principle (young offenders, old offenders, pregnant women, psychiatric cases)
  • taking out specific crimes by de-criminalization (drugs, ...)

Tendencies and Counter-Tendencies

The Trend away from Total Institutions

Mass incarceration

Mass misery at the margins

Weblinks und Literatur

• Deleuze
• Feest & Paul (org.): Does Abolitionism Have A Future? Zusatzmaterial zu Heft 1(2008 des KrimJ