As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to
building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been …

The present issue of Critical Criminology constitutes the second of three issues on the topic
of penal abolition, assembled by us to bring the history and current character of penal …

Full article: Penal abolition and the state: colonial, racial and gender violences Skip to Main
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In Canada, there is renewed attention to the violence experienced by Indigenous peoples in
residential schools, by police, through hyper-imprisonment and child removal, in hospitals …

Pervasive carceral conditions are being met with a range of efforts to make what Ruth
Wilson Gilmore calls “freedom as a place.” What does it mean to create such places? We …

The advances made by current social movement organizing to defund police challenge
academic abolitionist traditions to more thoroughly theorize the centrality of policing to the …

This article uses testimonies from private sector staff about their experiences of working in
sites of short-term immigration detention and in facilitating deportation, to explore the …

Any prison in the United States of America is much more than it appears to be. Like
landscape itself, incarceration is a relational process that hosts many insights—and urgent …

Appalachians continue to face the lasting effects of generations of state violence. Residents
are often met with economic, environmental, physical, and mental hardships that are specific …

Prison Forms: Genre and Excarceral Politics in Victorian Literature focuses on popular
nineteenth-century literature that engages with criminal justice topics that were timely in their …