A selection of papers from the Penal Law, Abolition and Anarchism conference organised by the British/Irish section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control in Association with the Hulsman Foundation held in Nottingham, England in April 2014

Penal Abolitionism: Papers from the Penal Law, Abolition and Anarchism Conference: Volume 1

Politics & Social Sciences

Beckmann, Andrea

Social Sciences

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Beyond Criminal Justice presents a vision of a future without brutal, authoritarian and repressive penal regimes. Many of the papers brought together here have been unavailable for more than two decades. Their republication indicates not only their continuing theoretical importance to abolitionist studies but also how they provide important insights into the nature and legitimacy of criminal processes in the here and now. Contributors highlight the human consequences of the harms of imprisonment, evidencing the hurt, injury and damage of penal incarceration across a number of different countries in Europe. Focusing on penal power and prisoner contestation to such power, the moral and political crises of imprisonment are laid bare. The contributors to Beyond Criminal Justice explore the urgent need for a coherent, rational and morally and politically sophisticated theoretical basis for penal abolitionism. Advocating a utopian imagination and at the same time practical solutions already implemented in countries around Europe - alongside grappling with controversial debates such as abolitionist responses to rape and sexual violence - the book steps outside of common sense assumptions regarding 'crime', punishment and 'criminal justice'. Beyond Criminal Justice will be of interest to students of criminology, zemiology, sociology, penology and critical legal studies as well as anyone interested in rethinking the problem of 'crime' and challenging the logic of the penal rationale

Beyond Criminal Justice: An Anthology of Abolitionist Papers presented to Conferences of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

Moore, J. M.

This edited collection, with contributions from Frances Heidensohn, Richard Collier and Carol Smart, is based on the papers delivered at the critical research seminar hosted by the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation, and Social Exclusion at Liverpool John Moores University on 16th March 2016. The seminar celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Carol Smart's path-breaking book, Women, Crime and Criminology published in 1976.

Women, Crime and Criminology: A Celebration

Smart, Carol

COLLIER, RICHARD

Heidensohn, Frances

This collection of essays is the product of a postgraduate conference held at Liverpool John Moores University on November 9th 2016 in conjunction with the university's Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion. The papers critically examine the targeted silencing of the powerless by state institutions and the impact of such subjugation. They provide an alternative world-view, raising fundamental questions about the politics of policy and radical reform and highlight how, by using the voices of the powerless, we can move beyond the state's definition of 'truth' and liberal policy interventions to develop an alternative set of truths which contest and contradict dominant narratives, thereby making the voices of the silenced count in the development of these alternative truths. In raising new questions in longstanding fields of study, critical postgraduate research has a significant role to play in uncovering these alternative truths which would otherwise be denied by the state.

Voices of Resistance: Subjugated knowledge and the challenge to the criminal justice system

Atkinson, Kym

Justice, Power and Resistance is a unique peer-reviewed international journal which publishes high-quality, original essays, book reviews, and scholarly and creative narratives alongside providing a platform for the voices of activists, individuals and groups confronted by state power. The editors welcome theoretical and ethnographic studies from interdisciplinary perspectives including sociology, zemiology, geography, law, history, criminology, penology, philosophy, social policy and socio-legal studies from scholars and activists. The journal is primarily a vehicle to make accessible and advance challenging research and scholarship that can be utilised to critically inform contemporary debates and policies. It is also committed to facilitating and enhancing communication and collaboration across critical and radical networks. Consequently, it welcomes short papers, campaign updates, poetry, personal reflections and (auto)biographical accounts from academics and non-academics alike. The scope of the journal includes a range of topics including the critical analysis of social harms; theories of state power; authority and legitimacy; gendered and racialised violence; the politics of social control; austerity, poverty and marginalisation; the legacies of colonialism, neo-colonialism and post colonialism; penal policies and penal practices; harms of the powerful; criminalisation; comparative studies and internationalist standpoints; abolitionist perspectives; social movements engaged in direct struggles of resistance and contestation; interventionist strategies and radical alternatives promoting human rights, social justice and democratic accountability.

Justice, Power and Resistance Vol. 1, No. 2.: Liverpool

Cooper, Vicki

Justice, Power and Resistance: Neoliberalism and Harm Production

MITCHELL, DANIEL

Pantazis, Christina

Pemberton, Simon

Sociology

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