Description:
This edited collection explores the concept of Generative Justice and how it might help us reimagine conventional responses to crime and state punishment. With case studies from the Global North and South, it offers insights into how, within different cultural contexts, justice-involved people find solidarity, belonging and purpose.
The book showcases exciting and innovative projects and communities in which unlikely solidarities have been forged among diverse people, through creative practices, education, food, horticulture, and through shared experiences of reentry, recovery and desistance. By exploring the common features and qualities of these generative places, the book sets out an agenda for future research and activism.
Brief description: Mary Corcoran is Professor of Criminology at Keele University.
Review Quotes: 'Generative justice (GJ) is a new term, and this innovative book demonstrates its practical and theoretical potential. Justice is not some lofty and remote conception nor does it belong only to the formal systems of the state. The book itself models the ways in which different perspectives on crime can be pooled in GJ to point towards novel pathways to desistance and reconciliation.' Rob Canton, De Montfort University