Envisioning Abolition

David Gordon Scott works at The Open University and is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance.Emma Bell is Professor of Professor of Contemporary British Politics at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance.

• 1. Abolitionism in Red and Black - Emma Bell and David Gordon Scott2. The Abolitionist Ideas of William Godwin in the Late 18th Century - Ruby Tuke3. Robert Owen and the Owenites: Abolitionist Ideas in the Early British Socialist Movement - Ophélie Siméon 4. ‘Do What is Right, and Let Come What May’: Tolstoy and Penal Abolition - Andrei Zorin5. Arthur St John: Tolstoyan Abolitionism in Practice - Peter Cox and Paul Taylor6. Edward Carpenter’s Realist Utopian and Contingent Abolitionism - Jonathan Baldwin7. William Morris’ Utopian Case for Prison Abolition - Owen Holland8. Beyond Sanction: Jean-Marie Guyau Between Penal Abolition and Social Defence - Federico Testa9. Pyotr Kropotkin: Foundations of Anarchist Prison Abolition - Robert D. Weide10. Anarchism and the Abolition of the Criminal Justice System: The Struggle for the Discourse on Evolution and Social Order in Spain - Alejandro Forero Cuellar11. Fear or Freedom? Errico Malatesta on Crime and Punishment - Davide Turcato12. Envisioning a New Society: Pietro Gori and the Problem of Criminal Justice - Marco Manfredi 13. ‘Cemeteries of the Living Dead’: Eugene V. Debs, Prison Abolitionist - Lisa Phillips14. Altgeld’s Protégé: Clarence Darrow and the Abolition of Prisons and Capital Punishment in the United States - Andrew E. Kersten15. Emma Goldman: The Making of a Prison Abolitionist - Penny A. Weiss 16. Seeing Through the Game: Alexander Berkman and the Modern Prison Abolition Movement - Søren H. Hough

"The hope it instils across its pages ensures that 'Envisioning Abolition' remains a formative book. In a world frequently moved to a place of pessimism [..], the significance of this intervention cannot be overstated." Theoretical Criminology