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bashsbooks's review
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, Violence, Confinement, and Classism
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Ableism, and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Islamophobia, War, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Transphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Alcohol
novella42's review against another edition
5.0
"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."
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Classism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Violence, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Death, Deportation, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, and Murder
sydneybedell's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Torture, Slavery, Sexism, Racism, Murder, Misogyny, Medical content, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Police brutality
wetdirtreads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Torture, Confinement, Murder, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Classism, Sexual violence, and Slavery
Minor: Colonisation, War, Homophobia, and Drug use
flamingtashhh's review
5.0
Some things I’d like to explore more following this book:
1. The colonization of the land by prisons. What effect on the environment and our connection to it does the logic and PHYSICAL fact of prisons have?
2. Racial capitalism and borders. How does the global migration of labor impact prisons? What similarities does this share with the Atlantic Slave Trade?
3. Gender-making and prisons. What does the logic of prison reform do to our notions of gender? How is this related to colonial notions of gender and citizenship?
4. Punishment and violence, specifically an expansion of the idea that domestic and sexual violence is the basis of punishment in women’s prisons.
There’s more.
Graphic: Rape, Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Colonisation, Classism, Torture, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexism, and Forced institutionalization
nickshutter's review against another edition
Graphic: Classism, Death, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Confinement, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery
Moderate: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, and Xenophobia
Minor: Alcoholism, Islamophobia, Drug abuse, Grief, and War
jehansflowers's review against another edition
Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Rape, and Murder
Minor: Mental illness, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Alcoholism, and Addiction