Paula Mallea

Beyond Incarceration

Safety and True Criminal Justice

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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 disproportio… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4597-3854-6
EAN: 9781459738546
Produktnummer: 22008133
Verlag: Dundurn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 509 KB
Reihenbandnummer: 8

Über den Autor

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, in the process gaining intimate knowledge of prison conditions.