International Handbook on Abolitionism

What is abolitionism?

Some eminent abolitionists

• Faye Honey Knopp, Ruth Morris, Herman Bianchi, Louk Huslman, Nils Christie, Heinz Steinert, Thomas Mathiesen, Angela Y. Davis, William Lloyd Garrison, Elijah Lovejoy, Nat Turner, Cesare Beccaria, Wilberforce, Douglass, Thomas Clarkson, Josephine Butler, Anna Pappritz, Auguste Viktoria, (Tolstoi), Frank Tannenbaum, ...

What did it take to abolish slavery?

• Ideology
• Commitment
• Organization
• Grass-roots mobilization
• Institutional political bridgeheads
• Getting one's hands dirty

The legal repression of women

• The Contagious Disease Acts (1864-1886); the movements in continental Europe
• The sex workers' movements vs. the "white-slavery" debate and the "new abolitionists"

The case of torture

Psychiatric confinement

Penal abolitionism

• Capital punishment

• See: Death and other ... on Beccaria's phenomenological vs. principled abolitionism

Repeal of anti-drug laws

• Abolishing the punishment of prison

• gradualism, reductionism, net wideneing, feminism, pos., ref ...

• Abolishing confinement

penitentiaries, serving prisons; remand; pre-trial, security detention, forensic, deportation, administrative, gulags, POW camps, refugee camps ...

Abolitionist strategies

• Decriminalization
• Reduction
• Normalization
• Segmentary abolitionism

• fine default
• children, juveniles
• women
• life

Abolitionist achievements

• Psychiatry
• Work houses (Scandinavia)
• Massachusetts

Abolitionist Groups

• Society of Friends
• Black Cross
• KRIM ...
• ...

Bibliography

• Adelsberg, Geoffrey & Lisa Guenther & Scott Zeman (2015) Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration NY: Fordham