Keywords

• The paper presents an abolitionist stance as the core of abolitionism. The abolitionist stance is a deep seated
• thoroughly critical attitude of saying no to prisons and penal solutions. Though important concrete abolitionist victories were won in the 1960s and 1970s
• prisons will not be abolished in our time. Neither will the so-called criminal justice system. All the more important is it to nurture of the abolitionist stance. Very many people actually have such a stance
• such an attitude of saying no to penal measures. However
• they frequently keep the attitude to themselves. The important point is to develop the stance of saying no into a movement. Many examples of developments in this direction exist. When people are together
• and when people cross the traditional lines between academics
• professionals
• prisoners
• ex-prisoners and the like
• a moral community around a â€
• œ
• noâ€
• 
• may develop. We do not reach the possible if we do not continuously grasp for the impossible