# Tommie Shelby

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Should Prisons Be Abolished

“Should we abolish prisons?” Host Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein discusses that with Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.

Episode 76: The Standing to Punish with Tommie Shelby

In this episode, we talk with Tommie Shelby about whether and when states lack the standing to punish. We also discuss Tommie's book on prison abolitionism, which makes the case for prison reform without accepting that incarceration is illegitimate. Tommie's website: https://www.tommieshelby.com/To…

EP 28: The Idea of Prison Abolition

Today we are joined by Professor Tommie Shelby--Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy--to discuss his book The Idea of Prison Abolition.

Should Prison Be Reformed, or Abolished? with Tommie Shelby

The American prison system is in shambles. Rehabilitation efforts fall short, recidivism rates soar, and the numbers show that our incarceration system fails to actually make us any safer. While the notion of abolishing prisons might sound radical, entertaining its principles could help cast light …

Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)

By any reasonable metric, prisons as they exist in the United States and in many other countries are normatively unacceptable. What is the proper moral response to this? Can prisons and the practices surrounding incarceration feasibly be reformed, or should the entire enterprise be abolished? If th…

“The Focus on Black People Really Helps”

Tommie Shelby im Gespräch mit Rahel Jaeggi und Robin Celikates In this episode, the Centre Directors Rahel Jaeggi and Robin Celikates speak with this year’s Benjamin Chair, Tommie Shelby, about his beginnings as a philosopher, his particular approach to philosophy, Marxism, the Black Radical Tradit…

109 | Should We Abolish Prisons? w/ Dr. Tommie Shelby

In this episode, we are joined by special guest Tommie Shelby to discuss the arguments presented in his most recent book, The Idea of Prison Abolition. We talk about the social functions that prisons serve, whether any of those are legitimate, and what the differences are between radical reformist …

Brandon M. Terry — Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement - with Clint Smith

We are all familiar with the romantic vision of the civil rights movement: a moment when heroic African Americans and their allies triumphed over racial oppression through courageous protest, forging a new consensus in American life and law. But what are the effects of this celebratory storytelling…

Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse speaks with Brandon Terry, a political theorist at Harvard University whose work seeks to reshape how we understand African-American political thought, especially the memory and meaning of the civil rights movement. Today they discuss top…

#1 Why Do We Have Prisons? with Tommie Shelby

Prisons are a central institution of modern society, yet their legitimacy is rarely questioned. Many people assume they prevent crime and justly punish wrongdoing. But what if these assumptions are mistaken? Today’s guest, Tommie Shelby, is the Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences an…