Penal abolitionism /

Penal abolitionism /

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Author / Creator:Ruggiero, Vincenzo.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:x, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology
Clarendon studies in criminology.
Subject:
Corrections -- Europe.
Alternatives to imprisonment -- Europe.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe.
Alternatives to imprisonment.
Corrections.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Europe.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8142087
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ISBN:9780199578443 (hardback)
0199578443 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Abolitionism is not only a strategy or a set of demands, aimed at the reduction (or suppression) of custody, it is also a perspective, a philosophy, an approach which challenges conventional definitions of crime. This book examines the origin, philosophy and achievements of abolitionism and reviews the literature on penal abolitionism from the 1960s to the 1980s. By collecting and discussing the key abolitionist arguments, the author critically analyzes the views expressed by its leading proponents; Nils Christie, Louk Hulsman, Thomas Mathiesen and Herman Bianchi, examining in particular how their views took shape, their philosophical foundations, and the social and political context of abolitionist ideas and perspectives. Policies, such as the virtual abolition of custody for young offenders in Italy, are presented and the area of informal justice is also addressed, with an overview of mediation and compensation practices, and an assessment of the degree of their effectiveness and desirability. Through assessment of these achievements and experiments of specific abolitionist ideas, the author attempts to identify the legacy of abolitionism from a European perspective, while bringing into focus more recent contributions concerning the study of terrorism and war"--
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Crime as Trouble
  • Anti-Platonism
  • Appetites
  • Ignorance and darkness
  • A Critique of Ethical Intellectualism
  • Hierarchical Arrangement
  • Acts and Crimes
  • Crime as Sadness
  • 3. Substantive Justice and Self-Regulation
  • Settings and Conflicts
  • Professionalism
  • Knowledge and Meaning
  • Industrialized and Natural Justice
  • Formal and Substantial Law
  • Sacredness
  • 4. Cultures of Punishment
  • The Right to Punish
  • The Right to be Punished
  • Vengeance and Passion
  • Consequentialism
  • Institutional and Material Functions
  • Carceral Social Zones
  • 5. The Limitation of Pain
  • No Defence for Prison
  • The Evolution of Pain
  • Reluctant Retribution
  • The Manufacture of Handicaps
  • The Immorality of Moralizing
  • Irrationality, Utility, and the Gift
  • 6. Social Christians and Mercy
  • Equality and Solidarity
  • Forging One's Religion
  • The Monarch's Mercy
  • Mysterious Iniquity
  • Liberating Theology
  • Pietas
  • 7. Abolitionist Praxis
  • The Judge and the Bum-Bailiff
  • The Unfinished and Action Research
  • The Abolitionist Stance
  • Law and Conflict
  • 8. Mutual Aid and Cordiality
  • Law and Authority
  • Tightly Knit Societies
  • The Business of Pain
  • No More Prisons
  • Cumulative Anticipation
  • 9. Participation, Conciliation, and Mourning
  • Participatory Disputes
  • The Tyranny of Public Opinion
  • Knowledge, Proximity, and Dialogue
  • Victims
  • Making Amends
  • Shaming and Peace
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Against Antinomian Thinking
  • Surrogate Victims of the Law
  • The Disease of the Hangman
  • Abolitionism as Public Sociology
  • References
  • Index
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