Envisioning Abolition

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3478-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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 H. Hough

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2026
Co-Autor	Ruby Tuke, Ophélie Siméon, Andrei Zorin, Peter Cox, Jonathan Baldwin
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-5292-3478-6 / 1529234786
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-3478-7 / 9781529234787
Zustand	Neuware