Prison Break
What does our attitude towards people escaping from prison tell us about the ethics of punishment and whether incarceration is the right approach?
Prison breaks loom large in both literature and pop culture. But how should we evaluate them ethically? New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks what a world without prison would look like. His essay explores whether those unjustly incarcerated have the moral right to break out, whether the rest of us have an obligation to help - and what the answers teach us about the ethics of punishment today. Jeffrey Howard is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Dept at University College, London, whose work on dangerous speech has been funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. You can find him discussing hate speech in a Free Thinking Episode /programmes/m0006tnf
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by 成人快手 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics who can turn their research into radio.
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