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Engendering Alternative Justice: Criminalized Women, Alternative Justice and Neoliberalism
January 1, 2016 | Authored by: Amanda Nelund
Feminist criminologists have a long history of arguing against the use of imprisonment and other formal justice system processes for criminalized women. Often feminist analyses of the formal criminal justice system end with a call for community alterna …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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The Impact of the Harper Government’s “Tough on Crime” Strategy: Hearing from Frontline Workers
September 30, 2015 | Authored by: Elizabeth Comack, Cara Fabre, Shanise Burgher
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for over a decade, while prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between falling crime rates and increasing incarceration numbers to the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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Deconstructing Neoliberal Rationality in an Increasingly Punitive Society: Canadian Public Support for ‘Tough on Crime’ Policies
September 23, 2015 | Authored by: Jill Patterson
Research has shown that criminal justice policy in Western democratic societies has become increasingly punitive (e.g. Wilson and Petersilia 2010), and that the public largely supports these policies, despite the fact that crime rates have been declini …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy has not made our Community Safer
September 22, 2015 | Authored by: Elizabeth Comack, Cara Fabre, Shanise Burgher
Frontline workers characterize the tough on crime strategy as “one size fits all” designed with the dangerous few in mind but applied to everyone. Workers believe the strategy sets the community up for danger by keeping people in prison longer in overc …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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Street Gangs in Winnipeg: Inner-city Youth Prevention Programs as Sites of Resistance?
September 9, 2014 | Authored by: Daniel Levin
Drawing on both post-colonial literature and critical gang studies research, this Master’s thesis situates the advent and growth of Indigenous street gangs in the context of settler colonialism, global economic restructuring, and the turn to a New Righ …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
