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Author Brown, David Professor, author Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

Title Justice Reinvestment : Winding Back Imprisonment / David Brown, Chris Cunneen, Melanie Schwartz, Julie Stubbs, Courtney Young
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages : 17 illustrations
Series Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Contents <P>Introduction <p>1. Justice Reinvestment: A Response to Mass Incarceration and Racial Disparity <p>2. How Has Justice Reinvestment Worked in the USA? <p>3. The Politics of Locality and Community <p>4. Justice Reinvestment, Evidence-Based Policy and Practice: In Search of Social Justice <p>5. How Does Justice Reinvestment Travel? Criminal Justice Policy Transfer and the Importance of Context; Policy, Politics and Populism <p>6. Conclusion
Summary Annotation This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond. It argues for a community-driven approach, originating in vulnerable Indigenous communities with high imprisonment rates
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of.
Prisons.
Penology & punishment.
Crime & criminology.
Criminology: legal aspects.
Criminal Law/General.
Penology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Form Electronic book
Author Cunneen, Chris Professor, author
Schwartz, Melanie Dr, author
Stubbs, Julie Professor, author
Young, Courtney Dr, author
ISBN 9781137449122
1137449128