{"product_id":"a-better-justice-9780774863636","title":"A Better Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings these criminological strands together in a concise and carefully reasoned analysis of alternative justice programs for criminalized women. Drawing on interviews with staff and documents from alternative justice agencies, Amanda Nelund finds that alternative programs neither reproduce dominant justice system norms nor provide complete alternatives. Instead, formal and informal practices reflect the tension between neoliberal and social justice approaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Better Justice?\u003c\/em\u003e calls attention to the potential that alternative programs have for both alignment with and opposition to criminal justice norms. It is in the potenti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While much feminist criminological research in Canada focuses on women’s experiences in Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal, \u003ci\u003eA Better Justice?\u003c\/i\u003e adds an important Prairie-centric analysis. By documenting and examining community-based efforts to assist criminalized women in the city of Winnipeg, Nelund considers how front-line organizations attempt to imagine and do justice differently in Canada.\"—Jennifer Kilty, University of Ottawa\u003cbr\u003eWhile much feminist criminological research in Canada focuses on women’s experiences in Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal, \u003ci\u003eA Better Justice?\u003c\/i\u003e adds an important Prairie-centric analysis. By documenting and examining community-based efforts to assist criminalized women in the city of Winnipeg, Nelund considers how front-line organizations attempt to imagine and do justice differently in Canada. -- Jennifer Kilty, University of Ottawa\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404945432919,"sku":"9780774863636","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774863636.jpg?v=1730488146","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-better-justice-9780774863636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}