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Prison Abolitionism and the Liberal Imagination
Jacob Abolafia reviews Tommie Shelby’s The Idea of Prison Abolition. He takes stock of the rationale behind prison abolitionism and examines Shelby’s effort to initiate a dialogue between Angela Davis, the intellectual vanguard of contemporary abolitionists, and liberal political philosophy in the tradition of John Rawls.
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