| A Better Justice?: Community Programs for Criminalized Women Contributor(s): Nelund, Amanda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774863633 ISBN-13: 9780774863636 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $32.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Gender & The Law - Social Science | Criminology |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. A Better Justice? blends the best of both feminist and critical criminology together in a concise analysis of alternative justice programs for criminalized women. Using Winnipeg as a test case, Amanda Nelund draws on staff interviews and archival documents to reveal the complexity that underlies the governance of criminalized women. She finds that alternative programs successfully avoid some dominant justice system norms while failing to provide the comprehensive change called for by feminist criminologists. Imperfect in many ways, these alternatives point the way toward the more just treatment of incarcerated women. |