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Generative Justice : Beyond Crime and Punishment.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeill, Fergus.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social justice.
- Social justice--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This edited collection explores the concept of Generative Justice and how it might help us reimagine conventional responses to crime and state punishment.With case studies from the Global North and South, it offers insights into how, within different cultural contexts, justice-involved people find solidarity, belonging and purpose.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Generative Justice: Beyond Crime and Punishment
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introducing Generative Justice
- Introduction
- Orientation
- Genealogy and etymology
- Common features of Generative Justice
- Recognition
- Communication of worth/hope
- Material provision (and exchange)
- Social connection
- Reciprocal concern
- Collective effort
- Change beyond the individual
- Ethics, methods, politics
- Epistemic justice and participation
- Generating solidarity
- Generativity and Justice
- An overview of this collection
- Conclusion
- References
- 2 Generative Justice: The Cooperative Way
- 'Cooperation' as a form and expression of social solidarity and Generative Justice
- Methods
- Origins, operation and purposes
- 'We don't let go': praxis, experiences and effects
- Some people are round!
- A chain of support
- 'Work', 'family' and 'home': the coop as a 'context'
- Navigating complexities
- Funding
- Balancing experience with expertise
- Should I stay or should I go?
- Notes
- 3 Generative Justice at LandWorks: Sam's Story
- Socio-narratology, narrative criminology and auto/biography
- Background and context: LandWorks
- A community project
- My experiences and overview of LandWorks (Sam's story)
- 4 Kitchen Table Justice: Reflections on What Abolition and Food Justice Can Teach Us about Generative Justice
- Positioning our work
- The Community Table
- Towards a generative food justice
- 5 Global South Generative Justice? A Study of Education and Reintegration in 'Prisons without Police' in Brazil
- An experience of GJ in the Global South?.
- Community participation
- Mutual help and solidarity among people in prison
- Solidarity with the family
- Fostering solidarity with society through volunteers
- Breaking isolation with Social Reintegration Centres
- APAC and GJ: educating prisons and communities in solidarity
- Education for solidarity: a continuous dialogue across communities
- Social connection and stable relationships beyond prison walls
- Collective effort: change beyond the individual
- Material provision and safe spaces without armed guards
- Recognition of incarcerated individuals' humanity
- Communication of worth and hope
- Challenges in bridging theory and practice
- 6 Bearing Witness to State Power: Peer Support in Prison as an Expression of Generative Justice
- Peer support
- 'Unequalled in pain': prison as an unlikely site for Generative Justice
- Active citizenship, connectedness and solidarity
- Bearing witness: tacitly knowing time served together
- Concluding thoughts: three applications to Generative Justice
- 1. Truly peer-led programmes
- 2. Lived experience advisors in policy development
- 3. Peer-led vocational and educational programmes with restorative principles
- 7 Generative Justice and Systems Change: Five Lessons Learned in Reentry
- Generativity, virtue and vice
- Generative Justice and systems change
- Lessons from shared journeys in reentry
- Lesson 1: expect to redefine your roles in reentry
- Lesson 2: expect to embrace loss
- Lesson 3: redefine success as solidarity in failure
- Lesson 4: recognize when the system is no longer working for you
- Lesson 5: think carefully about how and when to speak up
- References.
- 8 Opening Minds, Hearts and Visions: Generative Justice among Choir Volunteers and Incarcerated Individuals
- Mary Cohen: experiences of Richard Winemiller's commutation hearing: where is mercy?
- Purposes, possibilities and challenges of choral singing in prisons
- Richard Winemiller: reflection on walls inside prisons
- Mary's reflection
- Mary Cohen: much different walls outside of prison
- Richard Winemiller: mental health walls inside prisons
- Richard Winemiller: features of Generative Justice in the choir's writing exchange
- Mary Cohen: tenets of Generative Justice expressed in the writing exchange
- Richard Winemiller: communal singing as a way to change beyond the individual
- What troubles the role of volunteers in a correctional facility?
- Richard Winemiller: experiences with volunteers
- Richard Winemiller: life in prison
- Closing thoughts: This Is Your Choir, Your Concert
- Richard Winemiller
- 9 Generative Justice in Hindsight: On Knowing, Doing and Sharing through Participatory Arts-Based Research
- Who are we?
- Emma Murray (EM), a criminologist undone
- Lucia Arias (LA), a gallery learning manager, critical pedagogue and patient protagonist
- Gill Buck (GB), a social worker undone
- Kemi Ryan (KR) and Natasha Ryan (NR), sisters and community activists
- Reformed photovoice re-examined (GB, KR and NR)
- Resolution , after the fact (EM and LA)
- Designing Generative Justice research
- Knowing GJ: on epistemology and ethics
- Doing GJ: on making and method
- Sharing GJ: on publics and possibility
- Generative hindsight as foresight: towards a conclusion
- 10 A Perspective from Practice: Making Together, between Limitations and Possibilities
- Community development as creative practice.
- Two examples of (attempting) generative practice
- LIMBO
- Distant Voices songwriting
- Tensions in practice
- Collective efforts
- Power and knowledge
- Organizing for GJ: structures, risks, partnerships
- 11 The Generative Culture of Recovery: The Intersection of Coloniality, Utopian Visioning and Generative Justice
- The detrimental impact of coloniality
- Utopia
- Generative Justice and links to recovery culture
- The culture of recovery: Generative Justice in action
- Authentic, whole person dialogues
- Non-hierarchical, person-centred spaces
- Solidarity and social connection
- Reciprocity and generativity
- Hope
- Creative expression and healing
- Recovery as an antidote to the impact of coloniality
- Generative effect beyond those in recovery
- 12 The Re/integrative Potential of Generative Spaces: A Case Study of 'The Place'
- Conceptualizing life during and after punishment: the six-form ecological model of re/integration
- When generativity and re/integration meet: the case of 'The Place'
- The Place as a generative community that fostered re/integration
- Note
- 13 Possibilities for Generative Justice in the Penal Voluntary Sector
- The penal voluntary sector
- Helping relationships and their organizational contexts
- Data and methods
- Analysis
- Organizational spaces
- Volunteer training
- Organizational performance metrics
- Afterword
- Reference
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4592-3
- 1-5292-4593-1
- 9781529245936
- OCLC:
- 1564840961
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