Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-206) and index.
Contents:
Alternative Justice? Resisting Criminal Justice Mentalities and Practices. Alternative Subjects: Construction of the Criminalized woman by Alternate Program Staff -- Alternative Mentalities: Framing Alternative Justice Through Neoliberal and Ethic of Care Mentalities -- Alternative Justice? Resisting Criminal Justice Mentalities and Practices.
Summary:
"Women are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. While feminist criminologists advocate for community alternatives to imprisonment they often do so without offering a corresponding analysis of existing community programs. And critical criminologists rarely consider gender in their assessment of the options. A Better Justice? brings these criminological strands together in a concise and carefully reasoned analysis of alternative justice programs for criminalized women. Using Winnipeg as a test case, Amanda Nelund draws on staff interviews and agency and program documents to reveal the complexity that underlies the governance of criminalized women. She finds that alternative programs neither fully reproduce dominant justice system norms nor provide the complete alternatives called for by feminist criminologists. Instead, formal and informal practices and governing mentalities reflect a tension between neoliberal and social justice approaches. A Better Justice? calls attention to the potential that alternative programs have for both alignment with and opposition to current criminal justice norms. It is in the potential points of resistance that we can find improved strategies for the treatment of criminalized women in Canada--and ultimately, greater social justice for them."-- Provided by publisher.
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