Aktualität und Zukunft des Abolitionismus

Feest & Paul (org.): Does Abolitionism Have A Future?

Deleuze

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, ...)