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garberdog's review
4.0
Very interesting, sui generis book, but does not quite live up to its promise. Despite the title and cover blurb, this book barely discusses themes of the child, innocence, or futurity. These themes are touched upon in passing, and there are some interesting ideas presented, but these are not at all developed. Instead, the book reads like a collection of separate essays loosely organized around the theme of prison abolition. To be sure, this discussion is invaluable, as are the extensive discussions of anti-prison/abolitionist organizing work that the author provides. However, scholars of childhood will have to do some extensive analytical work to make the connections between childhood/adulthood/futurity/innocence and the prison-industrial complex that the author promised were to be central to the argument. Disappointing in this regard. Still worth reading as a sustained discussion on the complexities of opposing both interpersonal violence and the prison-industrial complex and as a review of several relevant bodies of literature.
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