Punishment and Democracy: Prison Abolitionism in the Twenty-First Century
Auditorium, Smith Memorial Hall
805 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana
During the period of the American Revolution, the prison was proposed as an historical alternative to corporal and capital punishment. Today, in the era of a global prison industrial complex, this institution is cavalierly assumed to be inevitable and permanent. In the tradition of late eighteenth century democratic reformers, who saw the future of democracy as linked to the abolition of corporal (and capital) punishment, contemporary advocates for radical democracy urge us to imagine and fight for a world without prisons.
Hosted by: Afro-American Studies and Research Program
In conjunction with: African-American Cultural Program, Center for African Studies, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, College of Education, College of Law, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Program
History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz