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Justice Reinvestment : Winding Back Imprisonment / by David Brown, Chris Cunneen, Melanie Schwartz, Julie Stubbs, Courtney Young.
Springer Nature - Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2016 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, David., Author.
- Cunneen, Chris., Author.
- Schwartz, Melanie, Author.
- Stubbs, Julie, Author.
- Young, Courtney, Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminology.
- Corrections.
- Punishment.
- Criminal law.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Law--History.
- Prison and Punishment.
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.
- Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
- Local Subjects:
- Criminology.
- Prison and Punishment.
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.
- Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XII, 291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond. The authors analyze the principles and processes of justice reinvestment, including the early neighborhood focus on 'million dollar blocks'. They further scrutinize the claims of evidence-based and data-driven policy, which have been used in the practical implementation strategies featured in bipartisan legislative criminal justice system reforms. This book takes a comparative approach to justice reinvestment by examining the differences in political, legal and cultural contexts between the United States and Australia in particular. It argues for a community-driven approach, originating in vulnerable Indigenous communities with high imprisonment rates, as part of a more general movement for Indigenous democracy. While supporting a social justice approach, the book confronts significantly the problematic features of the politics of locality and community, the process of criminal justice policy transfer, and rationalist conceptions of policy. It will be essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners of criminal justice and criminal law.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137449115
- 113744911X
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