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Envisioning Abolition : Socialism, Anarchism and Penal Abolitionism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuke, Ruby.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- 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, showing how their ideas can assist those engaging in emancipatory struggles against penal and social injustice today.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abolitionism in Red and Black
- The Embryonic Abolitionist Ideas of William Godwin in the Late 18th Century
- Robert Owen and the Owenites: Abolitionist Ideas in the Early British Socialist Movement
- ‘Do What Is Right, and Let Come What May’: Tolstoy and Penal Abolition
- Arthur St John: Tolstoyan Abolitionism in Practice
- Edward Carpenter’s Realist Utopian and Contingent Abolitionism
- William Morris’ Utopian Case for Prison Abolition
- Beyond Sanction: Jean-Marie Guyau between Penal Abolition and Social Defence
- Pyotr Kropotkin: Foundations of Anarchist Prison Abolition
- Anarchism and the Abolition of the Criminal Justice System: The Struggle for the Discourse on Evolution and Social Order in Spain
- Fear or Freedom? Errico Malatesta on Crime and Punishment
- Envisioning a New Society: Pietro Gori and the Problem of Criminal Justice
- ‘Cemeteries of the Living Dead’: Eugene V. Debs, Prison Abolitionist
- Altgeld’s Protégé: Clarence Darrow and the Abolition of Prisons and Capital Punishment in the United States
- Emma Goldman: The Making of a Prison Abolitionist
- Seeing through the Game: Alexander Berkman and the Modern Prison Abolition Movement
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3481-6
- 1-5292-3480-8
- OCLC:
- 1504370023
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