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Transforming Justice, Transforming Lives - Women's Pathways to Desistance from Crime (Hardcover)
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Transforming Justice, Transforming Lives - Women's Pathways to Desistance from Crime (Hardcover)
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What is a just response to persons seeking to desist from criminal
behavior? In America, over the last several decades mass
incarceration has emerged as the prevailing policy response to
crime and reoffending. The majority of those who are imprisoned
will be released, and those that are released tend to return to
communities challenged by high rates of violence, crime,
unemployment, and poverty. In these conditions, without some type
of intervention, persons with criminal histories are likely to
reoffend. April Bernard, through compelling interviews and field
research with formerly gang affiliated women, illuminates how
through community support and their active engagement in
peacemaking work in distressed neighborhoods throughout Chicago
they were able to desist from crime, rebuild their lives, and
become meaningful contributors to their communities. This book
explores the role of community in facilitating the commitment to
desist from crime, by offering critical support and opportunities
for stewardship. Bernard provides a timely analysis of the
transformative potential of a new perspective on criminal justice
which incorporates stewardship and community engagement as a
fundamental principal in the response to persons seeking to desist
from criminal behavior, particularly women. The book combines
moving personal narratives with concrete practical evidence to call
for an alternative to ideology that supports the existing punitive
policies and practices of the criminal justice system and the
corresponding lack of interventions and opportunities for persons
seeking to desist from crime. This deeply informed, and perceptive
analysis concludes with suggestions for alternatives that fit
within a transformative justice paradigm.
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