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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

21 reviews

daniela_cruz's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

Este livro é incrível na demonstração de como as prisões como são neste momento são obsoletas porém não nos dá soluções concretas suficientes para puder alterar uma visão do fim das penas passar pela reabilitação e não abolição.

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headachesince03's review

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challenging dark informative inspiring

4.75


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zombiezami's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

4.5

Foundational text is foundational 

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bashsbooks's review against another edition

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challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

A really useful and informative introduction to prison abolition. Davis' writing style is dense, but understandable - in less than 200 pages, she managed to convey dozens of complex ideas clearly and concisely. She has thought deeply about how the prison industrial complex interacts with a wide variety of identities, which gives the book a revolutionary and intersectional tenor that made me forget several times that she wrote this in 2003. It is still very relevant and much worth reading today.

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ashleybeereads's review

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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0


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novella42's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

A powerful read, and a perspective shift I had never thought to question before. I'm glad I had the author-read audiobook, spending five hours listening to the incomparable Angela Davis was well worth the time.

"What would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice? 

"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society."

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kirstenf's review

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challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75


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bootsmom3's review against another edition

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challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0


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oworthyfool's review

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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0


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sydneybedell's review

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challenging informative fast-paced

4.5


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