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Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures
Contesting Carceral Logic provides an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of how carceral logic is embedded within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the harms and critiques of using carceral logic to respond to human wrongdoing, and exploring penal abolition thought.
| Author(s) | Edited by Michael J Coyle (California State University, Chico, USA), Mechthild Nagel (Mechthild Nagel is Professor at SUNY, Cortland.). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 214 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 13 Aug 2021 |
| Availability | POD |
Contesting Carceral Logic provides an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of how carceral logic is embedded within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the harms and critiques of using carceral logic to respond to human wrongdoing, and exploring penal abolition thought.
Introduction: Penal Abolitionism as a Challenge to Carceral Logic Michael J. Coyle and Mechthild Nagel PART 1: The Harms of Carceral Logic: People and Places 1 Prison Provokes People into Being More Aggressive, Hyper Sexualized and Prone to Crim
Michael J. Coyle, PhD is Professor, Department of Political Science and "Criminal" Justice, California State University, Chico. He is the author of Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society (Routledge 2013) and the forthcoming Seeing Crime:
