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Penal Abolitionist Theories and Ideologies
From: Colonial Systems of Control
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Two questions about the penal abolitionist perspective are whether it represents is a theory of crime and whether it can or does address the nature of crime. Here I will illustrate that penal abolitionism is a theory that radically addresses the nature of crime, but in that assessment rejects the categorization of its perspectives as a theory of crime.
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Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Viviane Saleh-Hanna is assistant professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.