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== | == New abolitionist literature == | ||
Davids Scott (ed.) Why prisons?, 2015 | '''Davids Scott (ed.) Why prisons?,''' 2015 includes original essays by, e.g. De Giorgi, Wacquant, Michelle Brown, Joe Sim u.a. and a foreword by | ||
Thomas Mathiesen ("Can we stem the tide"), in which he suggests a number of sociologically informed strategies "to lower or at least significantly slow down the increase in numbers of prisoners per capita in a society" (XX). A surprisingly modest proposal for the Grand Abolitionist. All the moire interesting are his suggestions: "foster confidence in others", "the police should be largely unarmed...police officers should be visible and polite rather than driving around in closed cars", "there are aspects of togetherness that should be fostered", "This involves a limitation on controlled city life, and an expansion of a social city life" (XXI). | |||
Part V of the book (Abolitionist Alternatives) includes the following three contribution: | |||
* Erica Meiners, Professor of education and gender and women's studies at Northeastern Illinois University, writes about "Schooling the carceral state: challenging the school-to-prison-pipeline". She believes that "it is not enough to take down prisons" (277). She advocates "building other sustainable frameworks for public safety and engaging the question of why prisons have been naturalized as responses to harm in our communities" (276). Prisons "cannot be eliminated unless new institutions and resources are made available to those communities that provide, in large part, the human beings that make up the prison population" (277). | * Erica Meiners, Professor of education and gender and women's studies at Northeastern Illinois University, writes about "Schooling the carceral state: challenging the school-to-prison-pipeline". She believes that "it is not enough to take down prisons" (277). She advocates "building other sustainable frameworks for public safety and engaging the question of why prisons have been naturalized as responses to harm in our communities" (276). Prisons "cannot be eliminated unless new institutions and resources are made available to those communities that provide, in large part, the human beings that make up the prison population" (277). | ||