Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures

Contesting Carceral Logic provides an innovative and critical analysis of carceral logic, exploring its international perspectives, harms, and critiques, and advocating for penal abolition. The book offers a diverse range of perspectives from scholars, activists, and people in prison, highlighting the need to build alternative communities and transform our response to human wrongdoing.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 13 August 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Contesting Carceral Logic is a groundbreaking and innovative analysis that delves deep into the pervasive presence of carceral logic within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the detrimental effects, and critiques associated with employing carceral logic to address human wrongdoing. The book explores penal abolition thought as it evolves in the twenty-first century, featuring chapters from scholars across various disciplines, individuals currently incarcerated, and penal abolition activists. It examines the potential of a future without carceral logic, explores how such a future can be cultivated, and delves into penal abolition thought as it develops in the twenty-first century.

The book's themes encompass analyzing carceral logic's harm to diverse individuals in various locations, generating anti-carceral knowledge, examining case studies highlighting radical alternatives, and challenging carceral logic from below. Ultimately, Contesting Carceral Logic offers the reader a critical and alternative perspective to reflect upon carceral logic, the punitive state, and the criminalizing systems that dominate globally. Furthermore, it raises important questions about how we can build communities and transform our response to human wrongdoing in ways that are not defined by racism/ethnocentrism, class warfare, and heteropatriarchy.

This book will be of immense interest to scholars, activists, and students alike. It serves as an essential introduction to key carceral issues and debates for those studying penology, criminology, social policy, geography, politics, philosophy, social work, and social history programs in countries worldwide. By examining the complexities and consequences of carceral logic, Contesting Carceral Logic contributes to the ongoing discussions and efforts to create more just and equitable societies.

Weight: 376g
Dimension: 155 x 235 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367751326