Free Them All

Name: Free Them All
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A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System

By Gwenola Ricordeau

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Free Them All by Gwenola Ricordeau challenges the traditional perspectives on punishment and incarceration within the Science & Nature category. It delves into the socio-political implications of prisons and argues for the abolition of these institutions. The book presents a thought-provoking analysis of justice systems around the world, urging readers to reconsider how society deals with crime and rehabilitation.
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An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolition

An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolition

Description

How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation?

The mainstream feminist movement has proposed locking up the bad men and has called on prisons, the legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist violence. This carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms women, including victims of violence, and particularly people of colour, poor people, and LGBTQ people.

In this scintillating, comprehensive study, Ricordeau draws from two decades as an abolitionist activist and scholar of the penal justice system to describe how the criminal justice system hurts women. Considering the position of survivors of violence, criminalised women, and women with criminalised relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to emancipation without incarceration.

With a new foreword by Silvia Federici.

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Free Them All by Gwenola Ricordeau offers a feminist critique of the prison system and argues for its abolition. The book delves into how incarceration fails to protect women and instead affects the most marginalised groups in society. It combines scholarly analysis with an emotive call for justice, showcasing the intersections between feminism and prison abolition.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839762734

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 August 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Contributors:

Translated by Emma Ramadan
Foreword by Silvia Federici
Translated by Tom Roberge
Translated by Emma Ramadan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 184g

Pages: 192

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Education & Reference Gwenola Ricordeau Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Gwenola Ricordeau is an associate professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Chico. She previously taught in higher education for more than a decade in her native France. As a feminist and a penal abolitionist for more than two decades, Gwenola tries to make her scholarship resonates with her activism and personal experience as a relative of prisoners.