Aktualität und Zukunft des Abolitionismus
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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