CRIM 3656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nils Christie, Mass Media, Class Discrimination
22 Apr 2017
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Restorative justice approach begins to unsettle the prison-punishment nexus. Challenge that begins to pull apart the taken-for-granted assumptions about the prison- punishment nexus, but also and even more fundamentally, the conceptual link between crime and punishment. A fundamental challenge to the way that imprisonment monopolizes criminal justice. Informed by this moral and political conviction that social life cannot be effectively regulated by and through the criminal law and sanctions, as other ways of dealing with problematic situations need to be explored, developed, and put into practice. They criticize the taken-for-grantedness as prisons as the primary response to wrongdoings. Lies in preventive forms of justice, which entails a wide variety of initiatives and strategies that strengthen the social arm of the state: prevent the need of carceral interventions from occurring. Abolitionism is both a theoretical perspective and political movement. Sudbury: details the way abolitionists have been politically active on a wide variety of reform issues.
