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The growing body of work on imprisonment, desistance and rehabilitation has mainly focused on policies and treatment programmes and how they are delivered. Experiencing Imprisonment reflects recent developments in research that focus on the active role of the offender in the process of justice. Bringing together experts from around the world and presenting a range of comparative critical research relating to key themes of the pains of imprisonment, stigma, power and vulnerability, this book explores the various ways in which offenders relate to the justice systems and how these relationships impact the nature and effectiveness of their efforts to reduce offending. Experiencing Imprisonment s...
How can we best help offenders desist from crime, as well as help victims heal? This book engages with this question by offering its readers a comprehensive review of positive criminology in theory, research and practice. Positive criminology is a concept – a perspective – that places emphasis on forces of integration and social inclusion that are experienced positively by target individual and groups, and may contribute to a reduction in negative emotions, desistance from crime and overcoming the traumatic experience of victimization. In essence, positive criminology holds a more holistic view, which acknowledges that thriving and disengagement from distress, addiction, mental illness, ...
This textbook is intended for undergraduate students in criminology, sociology, social justice and related disciplines. It is an integrated criminology/criminal justice textbook that presents critical perspectives on issues in the criminal justice system, while also providing an overview of key theoretical ideas in criminology, key research processes, and patterns and trends in crime in the Canadian context. The textbook is a thematic narrative that allows students to make connections between people and processes – individuals and society – and provides students with the critical skills they need to excel in fields related to social justice, criminal justice and beyond.