Criminal justice thinking should be tackled
Rebecca Roberts, senior associate at the Centre, has written a new blog post on the challenge of prison abolitionism. She writes:
'The domination of criminal justice thinking and practice will be difficult to shake – it’s hard enough, even with a 5 year old. And yet, there is mounting concern about the role of private companies involved in tagging, the detention of migrants and prisoners; the integrity of the police; the privatisation of probation; and growing evidence of abuses and disturbances in prisons and immigration detention centres. These offer opportunities for activism and protest; for building alliances with those who share our concern for social justice over criminal justice. This isn’t just a matter of penal reform. It is bigger than that. It is about equality and freedom and fairness.'