Benutzer Diskussion:Woozle/Against Penitentiaries

Neue abolitionistische Literatur

Davids Scott (ed.) Why prisons?, 2015 enthält

• ein Vorwort von Thomas Mathiesen ("Can we stem the tide"), in dem er eine Reihe von soziologisch informierten Vorschlägen macht, "to lower or at least significantly slow down the increase in numbers of prisoners per capita in a society" (XX). Ein vergleichweise bescheidenes Ziel. Umso interessanter seine Vorschläge: "foster confidence in others", "the police should be largely unarmed...police officers should be visible and polite rather thabn driving around in closed cars", "there are aspects of togetherness that should be forstered", "This involves a limitation on controlled city life, and an expansion od a social city life" (XXI).
• Erica Meiners, Professor of education and gender and women's studies at Northeastern Illinois University, writes about "SSchooling 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).
• Julia C. Oparah is professor and chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College. She is maybe better known as Julia Sudbury (with a number of abolitionist publiations, in Social Justice and elsewhare). Here she deals with the Topic "Why no prisons?". She reports about the new Abolitionist movement in the USA (Critical Resistance), which holds annual metings since 1998. CR's analysis of the political economy of prisons was shaped by Linda Evans and Angela Y. Davis. "One of the most effective strategies used by Critical Resistance to win Support for the Abolition rather than reform of prisons is to Point to a continuity between slavery and contemporary incarceration" (283). But aren't there some people who really need to be locked up? CR's answers and strategies are to be found in "The Abolitionist Toolkit"(2012) [1]). Oparah (298) shares the activists' belief in a three step strategy of prison abolition: STOP (moratorium), SHRINK (decarceration), BUILD (alternative way to built security and address harm).

• David Scott, is Senior lecturer of criminology at Liverpool John Moores University

Neue Struktur

Beim Versuch, die Struktur zu bearbeiten bin ich auf folgende Probleme gestoßen

• Wir wollen die Abschaffung der Strafgefängnisse.
• Dann sollen wir dies auch deutich machen und uns darauf beschänken
• Das tun wir nicht, wenn wir ausführlich und mitten drin "Security Prisons", "Punishment without Prisons" oder gar "Beyond Punishment and Prisons" thematisieren.
• In dem Abschnitt "The Meaning of Abolition" steht schon jetzt, was Abolition in unserem Kontext nicht ist. Das sollte ergänzt werden (insbesondere um Ausführungen zu "Punishment without prisons").
• Ganz am Ende würde ein kurzer Ausblick genügen auf gefängnisähnliche Institutionen, über deren Abschaffung man auch nachdenken kann (UHaft, Sicherungsverwahrung; Abschiebungshaft; Forensik etc.)
• und auf Restorative Justice
• Titel: "No Prisons?","Against Prisons?" oder "Against Punishment Prisons", "Against Prisons-for-Punishment", "Gegen Strafanstalten". Letztlich vielleicht doch am ehesten: "Against Penitentiaries"