This book showcases innovative justice initiatives from around the world which engage offenders, practitioners and communities to reduce reoffending and support desistance and positive change. It is groundbreaking in bringing together inspiring ideas and pioneering practices to analyse how 'justice done differently' is making a difference.
Hannah Graham is an Associate Lecturer in Criminology and a member of the Criminology Research Unit in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Hannah's research interests include innovative justice, desistance scholarship, penal cultures and practices, vulnerability and people with complex needs, alcohol & other drugs rehabilitation, and the ethics of euthanasia. Together with Rob White, she is co-author of Working with Offenders: A Guide to Concepts and Practices (Willan Publishing/Routledge, 2010). As part of the wider Innovative Justice international research initiative, Hannah has co-produced a website with Rob White, Katrina Clifford and key stakeholders in the field, www.innovativejustice.com
Rob White is a Professor of Criminology and Director of the Criminology Research Unit in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Rob has made extensive contributions in research, teaching and publishing across the areas of green criminology and transnational environmental justice, juvenile justice and youth studies, critical criminology, restorative justice and mainstream criminal justice. His recent books include Youth Gangs, Violence and Social Respect (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Environmental Harm: An Eco-Justice Perspective (Policy Press, 2013) and Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective (Springer, 2012).
1. Analysing Innovation 2. Creative Offender Rehabilitation 3. Skills for Change 4. Greening Justice 5. Animals and Therapeutic Justice 6. Beyond Fear and Loathing - Countering Extremism 7. Engaging Offenders with Communities 8. Sustaining Innovation.