HCG Review

Drawing on Angela Davis’s abolitionist framework, this article critiques the prison-industrial complex as a system rooted in racism and structural violence. It proposes a two-part solution: addressing pre-crime social inequalities and adopting restorative justice. Emphasising mutual obligations between offenders and communities, it advocates alternatives to punitive incarceration to achieve genuine accountability and long-term societal reintegration.

1. Introduction “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied”[i] - William E. Gladstone. India’s judiciary has been referred to as a “beacon of...

The key concept of ‘bioregionalism’ as presented by Berg and Dassman is reinhabitation. It means how an individual becomes native to a place, by learning to live in it, knowing more about it and ultimately being respectful of the natural threshold, so that one does not turn out to be exploitative towards their own place. Through textual analysis, this paper, shall try to explore the theory of ‘reinhabitation’ by examining the description of rituals