FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dean Spade, Undercover Cops, Tribal Sovereignty In The United States

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

Penal abolition is a transnational movement aimed at the elimination of prisons worldwide: use penal instead of prison, need to do more than eliminate prisons, need to eliminate revenge as the central goal. Instead of vengeance, advocate the possibilities of healing justice. 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. 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: eg: settler colonialism and the ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples.