Justice Alternatives

Justice is one of the most debated and reinterpreted of concepts within the fields of law criminology and criminal justice. Bringing together 35 leading thinkers analysts and campaigners from around the world this collection presents a range of on-going struggles for justice from abolitionist transitional transformative indigenous green and restorative perspectives. Against a background of contemporary concerns about dark money plutocracies and populism these chapters raise questions about the relationships between social justice and criminal justice and between democracy knowledge and justice. Overall the chapters also demonstrate the breadth variety and vibrancy of contemporary criminology and include amongst other cutting-edge contributions chapters by John Braithwaite Michelle Brown Ian Loader Pat OâMalley Joe Sim Susanne Karstedt Phil Scraton Richard Sparks LoÃc Wacquant and Sandra Walklate. Justice Alternatives is essential reading for students of criminology criminal justice and law as well as for other scholars and activists concerned about social justice policing courts imprisonment mass supervision rights and privatized justice. The bookâs emphasis upon the importance of imagination experimentation innovation and debate aims to promote an optimism that there are always alternatives to inequality domination and oppression. . Language: English