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Prison Abolition

Laurie Taylor considers the arguments in favour of, as well as opposed to, the ending of imprisonment.

PRISON ABOLITION: Laurie Taylor talks to Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, about a new study which considers the case for ending imprisonment. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as neoslavery or 鈥渢he new Jim Crow.鈥 Can the practice of imprisonment be reformed, or does justice require it to be ended altogether? They鈥檙e joined by Clare McGlynn, Professor of Law at Durham University, who questions 'anti carceral' approaches from a feminist perspective 鈥 do they serve the interests of survivors of male violence against women and girls?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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28 minutes

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Mon 22 May 2023 00:15

Guests and Further Reading

,听听Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University

The Idea of Prison Abolition by Tommie Shelby (Princeton University Press)

Clare McGlynn, Professor of Law at Durham University


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  • Wed 17 May 2023 16:00
  • Mon 22 May 2023 00:15

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