
Transforming Justice, Transforming Lives
Women's Pathways to Desistance from Crime
By: April Bernard
Paperback | 23 May 2019
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April Bernard provides an insightful investigation into how ten women with deep criminal histories from Chicago, through their commitment to desistance from crime and their active engagement in community crime prevention, were able to turn their lives around. Representative of a viably emerging paradigm to the failed wars on crime, dependent as they are on counterproductive approaches of deterrence and punishment, Transforming Justice, Transforming Lives, captures the essence of the alternative pathways to reducing crime and violence. Through oral histories, organizational and community analysis, and structural examination, Bernard makes the case for why mutual stewardships and universal social concern are more humane and cost effective means of reducing landscapes of crime, conflict, and violence than are the traditional get tough approaches to street crime. -- Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University; author of Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding
This important book recounts a tale of community-based peace-making and the lives of women determined to transform their slice of the streets of Chicago. Putting their own lives at risk, they mobilized their friends, neighbors and the faith community to directly confront the peace breakers, challenging them to also reconstruct their lives. Their victories were hard-won and the ground they gained will be hard to hold, but they were based on individual and collective commitment to change rather than fear of doing hard time. They promise to be robust and self-reinforcing, rooted in "community" in the deepest sense. -- Wesley G. Skogan, Northwestern University
ISBN: 9781498519823
ISBN-10: 1498519822
Published: 23rd May 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 158
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.1 x 15.4 x 1.3
Weight (kg): 0.24
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