Generative Justice
Beyond Crime and Punishment
Fergus McNeill editor Mary Corcoran editor Beth Weaver editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Publishing:29th Jan '26
£80.00
This title is due to be published on 29th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
'In an era when political winds have shifted away from recognizing the full humanity of criminalized people, this collection offers a new vision of justice—one that is relational, communal, humane and in fact generative. Generative Justice makes room to ask new questions of our responses to both crime and criminalization, and its chapters provide numerous examples of novel and promising approaches to justice that meet the needs of a new day. This is an important intervention that is at once ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, feasible and humane.' Reuben Jonathan Miller, MacArthur Fellow and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
ISBN: 9781529245905
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272 pages