Education & Development
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
...law? Of course, there should be a proportionate response when somebody does something wrong. No prison abolitionist would disagree with this idea. But, the logic that ‘prisons are there because they threaten a consequence or act as a deterrent for crime’ is false. Firstly, there is no evidence that deterrence works – we simply cannot measure an action which does not...
