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Social Science Criminology

A Better Justice?

Community Programs for Criminalized Women

by (author) Amanda Nelund

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2020
Category
Criminology, Women's Studies, Gender & the Law
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774863629
    Publish Date
    Oct 2020
    List Price
    $75.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774863650
    Publish Date
    Oct 2020
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774863636
    Publish Date
    Mar 2021
    List Price
    $29.95

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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. And critical criminologists rarely consider gender in their assessment of the options.

 

This 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.

 

A Better Justice? calls attention to the potential that alternative programs have for both alignment with and opposition to criminal justice norms. It is in the potential points of resistance that we can find improved strategies – and ultimately, greater social justice for criminalized women in Canada.

About the author

 

Amanda Nelund is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at MacEwan University. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Restorative Justice: An International Journal and Radical Criminology.

 

Amanda Nelund's profile page

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