Scott / Bell Envisioning Abolition

Socialism, Anarchism and Penal Abolitionism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3479-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Abolitionist thought visualizes a world without prisons – or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book explores the abolitionist ideas of key early socialists and anarchists, writing from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. It considers how these radical thinkers can provide insights into our present condition, both by highlighting the harms of punishment and by pointing to inspiring alternatives to current policy and practice.

By examining their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination and repression, the book shows how the ideas of early socialists and anarchists can assist those engaging in emancipatory struggles against penal and social injustice today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, David Gordon

Bell, Emma

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tuke, Ruby

Siméon, Ophélie

Zorin, Andrei

Cox, Peter

Baldwin, Jonathan

Holland, Owen

Testa, Federico

Weide, Robert

Forero Cuellar, Alejandro

Turcato, Davide

Manfredi, Marco

Phillips, Lisa

Kersten, Andrew

Weiss, Penny A.

Hough, Søren

Taylor, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Abolitionism in Red and Black - Emma Bell and David Gordon Scott

2. The Abolitionist Ideas of William Godwin in the Late 18th Century - Ruby Tuke

3. Robert Owen and the Owenites: Abolitionist Ideas in the Early British Socialist Movement - Ophélie Siméon

4. ‘Do What is Right, and Let Come What May’: Tolstoy and Penal Abolition - Andrei Zorin

5. Arthur St John: Tolstoyan Abolitionism in Practice - Peter Cox and Paul Taylor

6. Edward Carpenter’s Realist Utopian and Contingent Abolitionism - Jonathan Baldwin

7. William Morris’ Utopian Case for Prison Abolition - Owen Holland

8. Beyond Sanction: Jean-Marie Guyau Between Penal Abolition and Social Defence - Federico Testa

9. Pyotr Kropotkin: Foundations of Anarchist Prison Abolition - Robert D. Weide

10. Anarchism and the Abolition of the Criminal Justice System: The Struggle for the Discourse on Evolution and Social Order in Spain - Alejandro Forero Cuellar

11. Fear or Freedom? Errico Malatesta on Crime and Punishment - Davide Turcato

12. Envisioning a New Society: Pietro Gori and the Problem of Criminal Justice - Marco Manfredi

13. ‘Cemeteries of the Living Dead’: Eugene V. Debs, Prison Abolitionist - Lisa Phillips

14. Altgeld’s Protégé: Clarence Darrow and the Abolition of Prisons and Capital Punishment in the United States

- Andrew E. Kersten

15. Emma Goldman: The Making of a Prison Abolitionist - Penny A. Weiss

16. Seeing Through the Game: Alexander Berkman and the Modern Prison Abolition Movement - Søren Hough

Über Autor(innen)

Taylor, Paul
Paul Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester, UK. Paul has published in the area of mental health, trauma and criminal justice. As well as writing in areas of criminology, criminal justice and health, Paul undertakes research with occupational groups such as police officers, military veterans and mental health care practitioners, to gain understandings of the complexity of work cultures. Paul is also the Associate Editor of the academic journal Illness, Crisis & Loss.

Cox, Peter
Peter Cox is a Professor at the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester.

Bell, Emma
Emma Bell is Professor of Contemporary British Politics at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc.

David Gordon Scott works at The Open University and is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance.

Emma Bell is Professor of Professor of Contemporary British Politics at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance.