 | Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States; Imprisonment -- United States; Punishment -- United States; Criminal justice Administration of -- United States; A collection of essays by diverse group of scholars who analyze issues raised by the U.S. prison system. Authors critique the racist, sexist, heterosexist, ableist, and economic injustices that uphold mass incarceration, practices of solitary confinement, and capital punishment. Adelsberg Geoffrey : Geoff Adelsberg is a graduate student in philosophy at Vanderbilt University writing his dissertation on the intersections of philosophy of race, nonretributive conceptions of justice, and arguments for the abolition of the death penalty. Since 2012, he has been a participant in the REACH Coalition philosophy reading group on death row at Riverbend Prison in Nashville, Tennessee.Guenther Lisa : Lisa Guenther is associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University and a member of REACH Coalition, an organization for reciprocal education based on Tennessee's death row. She is the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).Zeman Scott : Scott Zeman works in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His research interests include psychoanalysis, trauma theory, philosophy of science, and the influence of unconscious structural power on modern forms of social justice and injustice. |
