Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law

2 reviews

for_esme_with_love's review

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

A must-read for police and prison abolitionists and reformers, the authors make it abundantly clear why common "kinder" alternatives to prison are really two steps back for the work of creating a compassionate society. Their argument is straight-forward and very well supported: we should be working to reduce the number of humans who are punished and confined, not expand the prison system using another name. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide attempt

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book. It's so thorough and detailed, and also has a long section at the end for what we *can* do. Very very helpful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Violence