Todd R. Clear
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195305791
- eISBN:
- 9780199943944
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305791.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter proposes a way of dealing with concentrated incarceration, focusing on community justice. Given the difficulty of achieving meaningful sentencing reform in the current policy ...
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This chapter proposes a way of dealing with concentrated incarceration, focusing on community justice. Given the difficulty of achieving meaningful sentencing reform in the current policy environment, this chapter offers a conceptualization of community justice as an alternative that promises a set of new values that might lead us to new ways of justice. This chapter explains that community justice initiatives could thrive under a regime of reduced imprisonment and they could also contribute to reductions in imprisonment. The elements of community justice include a focus on high-incarceration places, attention to norms and values in those places and attempts to improve schools, jobs, and housing as target.Less
This chapter proposes a way of dealing with concentrated incarceration, focusing on community justice. Given the difficulty of achieving meaningful sentencing reform in the current policy environment, this chapter offers a conceptualization of community justice as an alternative that promises a set of new values that might lead us to new ways of justice. This chapter explains that community justice initiatives could thrive under a regime of reduced imprisonment and they could also contribute to reductions in imprisonment. The elements of community justice include a focus on high-incarceration places, attention to norms and values in those places and attempts to improve schools, jobs, and housing as target.
