New abolition, criminology and a critical carceral studies

“In linewith Brown and Schept’s (2016) contention that such a disruption, ‘if central to our foundations, analysis, and practice, might open up transformative spaces within our training, pedagogy, and practice’ (p.”

“Positioned between abolition and reform is transformation—the creation of policies, practices, structures, and relationships that alter the current dynamic between the public and the state and operates to diminish the social, psychological, political, and economic harms that flow from structural inequity and state pun…”

“reify and reproduce carceral logics and practices” [15].”

“…proliferation of global carcerality and the racial state’s monopoly on legal confinement of immigrants and other racialised subjects (Bonds 2009, 2013; Brown and Schept 2017; Camp 2016; Gill et al. 2018; Gilmore 2007; Loyd et al. 2012; Martin 2020; Massaro 2020; McKittrick 2011; Moran et al. 2016;…”

“Justice is fugitive because there is an altering “of the normative discourses and vocabularies, the ways of thinking and being,” which inform carceral societies and nations (Brown & Schept, 2017, p. 444).”

“…carceral expansion has been aggressive in its pace and consistency—especially for First Nations women and women of colour (Cunneen et al., 2013; Russell and Carlton, 2013)—and prison abolition maintains a marginal position in political and indeed criminological discourse (Brown and Schept, 2017).”

“Still others have embraced the present moment by calling for scholars to contribute to a new interdisciplinary subfield of critical carceral studies in order to challenge criminology’s complicity in maintaining the carceral state (Brown and Schept, 2017).”

“…the carceral state reaffirms the foundational fictions of racial capitalism—fictions of freedom through the sanctification of property, fictions of earned opulence and deserved deprivation (Gilmore 2007, 2017; Davis 2016; McLeod 2015; Camp 2016; Brown & Schept 2017; Vegh Weis 2018; Turner 2012).”

“The power of this logic is considerable: it overwhelmingly dominates intellectual circles concerned with transgression (‘crime’), conservative as well as progressive political ideology, and consequently, social policy (Brown & Schept, 2017).”

“…from anti-carceral, intersectional, queer and transgender feminist scholarship to explore some of the categorical limitations of criminology (Brown and Schept 2017: 12) and to further highlight feminists’ negotiation and critique of allying justice movements too closely with carceral…”

“In education research, the merging of prison or carceral studies and education is longstanding (Brown & Schept, 2017; Nolan & Anyon, 2004; Simmons, 2017).”

“In recognizing that the carceral state can operate through both obviously carceral practices and their ‘alternatives’, we can begin to ‘move through critique to the rigorous, promising work of envisioning and practicing a world otherwise’ (Brown and Schept, 2016: 17).”

“In this article, we ‘tune in’ to ‘the qualitative story’ of incarceration (Simon, 2014: 3) to contribute to the larger political task of critical carceral studies: to expose and challenge the punitive logics and effects of carcerality (Brown and Schept, 2016).”

“…2023), how organizers understand the praxis of abolition (Battle 2022), abolition’s place within traditional academic disciplines and feminisms (Brown and Schept 2017; Whalley and hackett 2017), and calls to abolish all carceral systems, including, for example, the family regulation system…”

“Scholars have long argued that the discipline of criminology performs as an “ intellectual prosthesis for the state ” (Brown and Schept, 2017: 442).”

“…is generated within institutionalized forms of carceralism, meaning social control measures like legislation, surveillance practices, enforcement procedures, punitive sanctions, and other methods of governance that are associated with the car-ceral state (Monaghan 2013; Brown and Schept 2017).”

“…2017; Hammersley 2015; Turnbull 2018); the prison – society relation and the articulation between intramural and extramural worlds (Boe 2020; Brown and Schept 2017; Cunha 2014; Fassin 2017; Gill et al., 2018; Weegels et al., 2020), and the importance of contextualization of ethnographic…”

“As Brown and Schept (2017) explain, CPS is concerned with “ destabilizing criminological common sense ” and developing “ alternative vocabularies and analyses from which to begin to work our way out of the carceral state ” (441,444).”

“As a growing number of scholars have noted, abolition is a direct threat to the discip-line of criminology as it exists (Brown and Schept, 2017; Coyle and Scott, 2021; McDowell and Fernandez, 2018; Saleh-Hanna, 2015).”

“Anti-carceral feminists abandon the idea that the CLS is able to, nor actively works to, prevent GBV, and instead focus on promoting safety and healing for victims, while also holding individuals accountable for their actions (Brown & Schept, 2016; Goodmark, 2023).”

“These experiences are based on historical and contemporary constructions of Black bodies and discriminatory policies, curricula, and educator practices (Brown & Brown, 2015; Carter Andrews, 2012; Carter et al., 2017; Hartman, 1997; Kendi, 2016).”

“Unchecked, this trend may disincentivise studying crime and social harm through alternative perspectives (see Brown and Schept 2017).”

“…Indigenous and decolonial studies, environmental justice studies, and feminist and queer studies, among others (Ben-Moshe, 2020; Berger, 2014; Brown and Schept, 2017; Burton, 2023; Camp, 2016; Heynen, 2016; Heynen and Ybarra, 2020; Maynard and Simpson, 2022; Pellow, 2021; Pelot-Hobbs, 2023;…”

“…sanctions for more low-level, nonviolent offenses have proliferated and gained support across the political spectrum, as more Americans recognize the staggering economic, social, and racial costs to society imposed by mass incarceration (Blumstein, 2019; Brown & Schept, 2017; Seeds, 2017).”

“Increasingly, however, scholars are explicitly highlighting TJ as a framework guiding abolitionist responses to harm (see Barrie, 2020; Brown, 2019; Brown and Schept, 2017; Kim, 2018).”

“Drawing on many of these notions, contemporary penal abolitionists call for a broad understanding of penal power and the carceral state (Beckett and Murakawa 2012; Brown and Schept 2017; Carrier and Piche 2015; Coyle and Schept 2018; Dobchuk-Land 2017; Schept 2015).”

“Sen-tencing work has often been described by judges as their hardest task, an agonizing and even “terrifying” process that involves a constant moral-cognitive burden, especially in discretionary systems (Brown 2017; du Bois-Pedain 2017; Ulmer & Johnson 2017).”

“From an anti-carceral feminist perspective (Brown and Schept, 2017; Davis, 2005) this exploration of the everyday is vital for puncturing the perception of imprisonment in popular imaginaries that sustain its legitimacy (Novek, 2009) by presenting it as an institution that meets a social need.”

“…up to confinement” would enable a deeper conversation on decarceration, abolition, and “engaged scholarly and activist production against the carceral state” (Brown and Schept 2017: 440) that frames the critical carceral studies movement, a shift that mainstream criminology has been slow to adopt.”

“Brown and Schept warned that the neoliberal notions of individual accountability and “ free will ” in rehabilitative efforts “ can still create an individualized subject prone to coerced incap-acitation and treatment by the state ” (2017, p. 446).”

“…writing on crime, punishment, and capitalism, from Marxist criminology to critical carceral studies, has developed (Adamson, 1984; Bonnet, 2019; Brown and Schept, 2017; Camp, 2016; Cowling, 2011; Davis, 2003; Gilmore, 2007; Gordon, 1973; Greenberg, 1993; Grose and Groves, 1988; Hall et al.,…”

“Alternatively, scholars such as Brown and schept (2017) offer us critical carceral studies that breaks from crim-inology as a discipline, engaging as a transdisciplinary framework and movement generated set of knowledges.”

“This reproduction of vulnerability, criminalization, and death suggest police based MheR functions within a carceral continuum (after echo Park Lake Research collective, 2022; Brown & schept, 2017).”

“…abolitionist criminology challenges core tenets in the field about the role of law, punishment, and the state in cultivating safety and justice (Brown & Schept, 2017; Saleh-Hanna et al., 2023), particularly the “carceral feminist” (Bernstein, 2007) assumption that GBV is best solved through…”

“Abolitionist approaches often treat alternative social justice strategies as more appropriate responses to harm (e.g. Brown & Schept, 2017; Davis, 2003; Hulsman, 1991; Mathiesen, 1986; Schept, 2012; Sudbury, 2004).”