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A call to replace Canada’s incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and — most of all — unnecessary.
Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all offences, from violent assault to victimless drug use. Centuries ago, incarcerating convicts represented progress on society’s part, since it came as a replacement for capital punishment, maiming, and torture.
Our current model — taking away convicts’ freedom and holding them in degrading and unhealthy prison conditions — promotes recidivism and jeopardizes public safety. It is highly discriminatory, with disproportionate numbers of ethnic, indigenous, mentally ill, drug-dependent, poor, and otherwise marginalized people imprisoned. It is also ruinously expensive.
Elsewhere, alternative correctional systems successfully rehabilitate offenders while treating them with dignity and respect. This book lays out the case for a complete overhaul of Canada’s ineffective incarceration model of criminal justice and for a new approach.
Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all offences, from violent assault to victimless drug use. Centuries ago, incarcerating convicts represented progress on society’s part, since it came as a replacement for capital punishment, maiming, and torture.
Our current model — taking away convicts’ freedom and holding them in degrading and unhealthy prison conditions — promotes recidivism and jeopardizes public safety. It is highly discriminatory, with disproportionate numbers of ethnic, indigenous, mentally ill, drug-dependent, poor, and otherwise marginalized people imprisoned. It is also ruinously expensive.
Elsewhere, alternative correctional systems successfully rehabilitate offenders while treating them with dignity and respect. This book lays out the case for a complete overhaul of Canada’s ineffective incarceration model of criminal justice and for a new approach.
Price: $19.99
Pages: 192
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: A J. Patrick Boyer Book
Series: Point of View
Publication Date:
28 November 2017
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781459738522
Format: Paperback
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How should a society punish? Paula Mallea answers this question in a challenging and eloquent way. Her sweeping critique of imprisonment is disturbing. Her plea for alternatives is compelling. Whatever your view Beyond Incarceration will force you to ask why we so frequently imprison when there are reasonable and justified alternatives to address crime and sanctions.
— W.A. Bogart, author of Off the Street
— W.A. Bogart, author of Off the Street
Paula Mallea practised criminal law for fifteen years in Ontario and Manitoba. While in Kingston, she defended inmates in nine different penitentiaries, spending hundreds of hours at Millhaven’s Special Handling Unit, Kingston Penitentiary, and other institutions. She lives in Gore Bay, Ontario.
Foreword by Catherine Latimer
Preface
Introduction
1 Getting to Prison: Sentencing
2 Prison Conditions: Developments Since 1971
3 Prison Conditions: Not Fit for Man or Beast
4 The Dubious Efficacy of Reforming Prisons: A Global View 5 Restorative Justice and Other Alternatives
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Preface
Introduction
1 Getting to Prison: Sentencing
2 Prison Conditions: Developments Since 1971
3 Prison Conditions: Not Fit for Man or Beast
4 The Dubious Efficacy of Reforming Prisons: A Global View 5 Restorative Justice and Other Alternatives
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography