Generative Justice

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'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 'This is a wonderful collection and an absolute must read for all concerned with defining and doing justice in contemporary worlds that takes us beyond normative concepts of crime and punishment. The authors take us on a journey constituted by the 'concept-praxis' of Generative Justice through creative, collaborative, engaged, sensory, activist and transformational research with criminal justice impacted people and communities.' Maggie O'Neill, University College Cork '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