For Abolition

<p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory struggles for liberation and social justice this book argues that penal abolitionism should be understood as an important public critical pedagogy and philosophy of hope that can help to reinvigorate democracy and set society on a pathway towards living in a world without prisons. </span><em style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>For Abolition</em><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> draws upon the socialist ethics of dignity empathy freedom and paradigm of life to systematically critique imprisonment as a state institution characterised by 'social death'.</span></p>