FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Undercover Cops, Settler Colonialism, Tribal Sovereignty In The United States
7 Dec 2016
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Penal abolition is a transnational movement aimed at the elimination of prisons worldwide. Use penal instead of prison because it is less harsh. Need to do more than eliminate prisons, need to eliminate revenge as the central goal. Penal abolitionists highlight that the expansion of the prison industrial complex must be situated against the rise of global capitalism and the profits made from increased surveillance (government employing private security corporations) Penal abolition aimed at opposing forms of criminalization and surveillance, and thinking about more constructive efforts towards building the communities we want to live in. Penal abolitionists seek a transformative or healing justice, which will take crime as an opportunity to get to root causes and transform them, bringing power to the community and healing to victims and offenders alike. Penal abolitionists highlight that the state is, from its inception, based on the criminalization, incarceration and regulation of othered populations.
