The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition

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Michael J. Coyle (California State University, Chico, USA) David Scott (Open University, UK)

The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition

Michael J. Coyle (California State University, Chico, USA), David Scott (Open University, UK)

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Routledge
31 March 2021

Crime & criminology; Causes & prevention of crime; Penology & punishment; Criminal justice law; Sentencing & punishment

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st-century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for local and global abolitionist ideas and interventions over the coming decade.

Penal abolitionists question the legitimacy of criminal law, policing, courts, prisons and more broadly the idea of punishment, to argue that rather than effectively handling or solving social problems, interpersonal disputes, conflicts and harms, they actually increase individual and societal problems. The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition is organized around six key themes:

Social movements and abolition organizing

Critical resistance to the penal state

Voices from imprisoned and marginalized communities

Diversity of abolitionist thought

International perspectives on abolitionism

Building new justice practices as a response to social and individual wrongdoing.

A global-centred and world-encompassing project, this book provides the reader with an alternative and critical perspective from which to reflect and raises the visibility of abolitionist ideas and strategies in a time when there is considerable discussion of how we will move forward in response to what has given rise to the criminalizing system: white supremacy, racial capitalism and human wrongdoing. It is essential reading for all those engaged with punishment and penology, criminology, sociology, corrections and critical prisons studies. It will appeal to any reader who seeks an innovative response to the calamitous failures of the modern criminalizing system.

Edited by: Michael J. Coyle (California State University Chico USA), David Scott (Open University, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.900kg
ISBN: 9781138354098
ISBN 10: 1138354090
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 476
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael J. Coyle, PhD, is a professor at the Department of Political Science and ""Criminal"" Justice, California State University, Chico. He is the author of Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society (2013) and the forthcoming Seeing Crime: Penal Abolition as the End of Utopian Criminal Justice. David Scott, PhD, works at The Open University. He has published widely on prisons and punishment and recent books include Why Prison? (2013), Against Imprisonment (2018) and For Abolition (2020).