Beyond incarceration : safety and true criminal justice / Paula Mallea ; foreword by Catherine Latimer.
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781459738522 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: 189 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Getting to prison : Sentencing -- Prison conditions : Developments since 1971 -- Prison conditions : Not fit for man or beast -- The dubious efficacy of reforming prisons : A global view -- Restorative justice and other alternatives. |
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Subject: | Imprisonment > Canada. Prisons > Canada. Criminals > Rehabilitation > Canada. Criminal justice, Administration of > Canada. |
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