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Thinking about prisons: A response to O’Flaherty, Sethi, and Murphy

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I provide a response to the commentaries on my book The Idea of Prison Abolition (2022) by Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi and by Colleen Murphy. With respect to the first commentary, I briefly discuss the comparison of US prisons to Norwegian prisons; the deterrent effect of well-crafted sentences; and the prospects of a world without prisons. In response to the second commentary, I argue that the methods of the scholar-activist and those of the analytic political philosopher are not incompatible with meaningful engagement and disagreement on the abolition-versus-reform question despite these methodological differences.

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  • Tommie Shelby, 2025. "Thinking about prisons: A response to O’Flaherty, Sethi, and Murphy," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 24(3), pages 242-248, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pophec:v:24:y:2025:i:3:p:242-248
    DOI: 10.1177/1470594X241295675
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