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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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Format:
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
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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:
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ISBN:
1-5292-4592-3
1-5292-4593-1
9781529245936
OCLC:
1564840961

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