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Beyond Incarceration - Safety and True Criminal Justice (Paperback)
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Beyond Incarceration - Safety and True Criminal Justice (Paperback)
Series: Point of View
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Loot Price R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
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A call to replace Canada's incarceration model, which has proven
destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and -
most of all - unnecessary. Imprisonment developed in the Western
world as the punishment to suit all offences, from violent assault
to victimless drug use. Centuries ago, incarcerating convicts
represented progress on society's part, since it came as a
replacement for capital punishment, maiming, and torture. Our
current model - taking away convicts' freedom and holding them in
degrading and unhealthy prison conditions - promotes recidivism and
jeopardizes public safety. It is highly discriminatory, with
disproportionate numbers of ethnic, indigenous, mentally ill,
drug-dependent, poor, and otherwise marginalized people imprisoned.
It is also ruinously expensive. Elsewhere, alternative correctional
systems successfully rehabilitate offenders while treating them
with dignity and respect. This book lays out the case for a
complete overhaul of Canada's ineffective incarceration model of
criminal justice and for a new approach.
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