Backed by growing numbers of prisons and prisoners, Davis analyzes these institutions in the U.S. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural. As we make our way into the twenty-first century-two hundred years after the invention of the penitentiary-the question of prison abolition has acquired an unprecedented urgency. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. "In thinking about the possible obsolescence of the prison," Davis writes, "we should ask how it is that so many people could end up in prison without major debates regarding the efficacy of incarceration." Whereas Reagan-era politicians with "tough on crime" stances argued that imprisonment and longer sentences would keep communities free of crime, history has shown that the practice of mass incarceration during that period has had little or no effect on official crime rates: in fact, larger prison populations led not to safer communities but to even larger prison populations. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills. Slavery, Civil Rights, and Abolitionist Perspectives Toward Prison - Imprisonment and Reform - How. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.Summary: Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privatization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end.
Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. Davis has written, prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. Davis 3.8 (4) Paperback View All Available Formats & Editions Buy New 14.49 Buy Used 10. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y.
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