Dealing with Concentrated Incarceration
Dealing with Concentrated Incarceration
The Case for Community Justice
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.
Keywords: concentrated incarceration, community justice, sentencing reform, reduced imprisonment, high-incarceration places
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