Hannah Graham - Innovative Justice

This book showcases innovative justice initiatives from around the world which engage offenders, practitioners and communities to reduce re-offending and support desistance and positive change. It is ground-breaking in bringing together inspiring ideas and pioneering practices to analyse how justice done differently is making a difference.

The voices and experiences of the people at the forefront of these innovative initiatives are presented throughout the book, including offenders, corrections staff and directors, the judiciary, scientists and academics, volunteers and community organisations. Strengths-based research methods are used to investigate and celebrate best practices and good news stories from the fi eld. The authors raise critical questions about what is considered innovative and effective, for whom and in what context, presenting their own conceptual approach for analysing innovation.

With initiatives drawn from diverse jurisdictions and cultures including the UK, Europe, Australia, Asia, the USA and South America Innovative Justice showcases original ideas and refreshing developments that have the potential to transform rehabilitation and reintegration practices. The books substance and style will resonate with practitioners, students and academics across the interdisciplinary fields of criminology and criminal justice.

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.

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.

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Graham, Hannah.

Innovative justice / Hannah Graham, Rob White.

pages cm

1. CriminalsRehabilitation. 2. Ex-convictsRehabilitation.

3. RecidivismPrevention. 4. Correctional psychology.

I. White, R. D. (Robert Douglas), 1956 II. Title.

HV9275.G73 2014

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2013050713

ISBN: 978-0-415-63211-9 (hbk)
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Hannah Graham (PhD) 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. Hannahs research interests include innovative justice, desistance scholarship, penal cultures and practices, vulnerability and people with complex needs, alcohol and 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: http://www.innovativejustice.com.

Rob White (PhD) 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).

Website: http://www.innovativejustice.com

Email: Innovative.Justice@utas.edu.au

Twitter: Innovative Justice, @Innovative_Just

Researching and writing this book is one of the most inspiring and hopeful things we have done in our professional careers. A great deal of that is due to the people we have met in the process, and the opportunities to listen and learn about the most inspiring and hopeful things they have done often having committed years and even decades of their time and resources. It is our privilege to be able to honour some of those key people here. In an international research initiative, the names of those we appreciate are many, but it is well worth taking the time to commend key people in response to their generosity in giving us their time and thoughts. There is a common denominator among these people: they are change champions, people who combine passion and optimism with patience and pragmatism in the longterm pursuit of a better future for those around them. Justice and health systems, universities, organisations and communities need more people like these.

Thanks to the staff of Singapore Prison Service, especially Timothy Leo, Soh Wai Wah, Terrence Goh, Leonie Tan, Abdul Karim, Kelvin Yeo and Alvin Tam. We appreciate your gracious hospitality, humility, wise insights and willingness to help with this research.

Thanks to the dynamic duo Ellen ONeill-Stephens and Celeste Walsen from Courthouse Dogs in the United States, you are both inspiring, fun and formidable forces for change! Thanks also to Cecilia Marre from Bocolan Confir and Judge Alejandra Rojas from Chile, your first-hand experience of the therapeutic benefits of assistance animal therapy is amazing.

Thanks to Joslyn Trivett, Dr Carri LeRoy, Kelli Bush and the staff, students and prisoner gardeners from the Sustainability in Prisons Project and The Evergreen State College in the United States. You are growing ideas, pioneering research and harvesting hope in places and with people in ways that make a tremendous impact, now and into the future.

Thanks to Piero Donat, Ben Jarman and the staff and volunteers of Fine Cell Work in England and Wales. We appreciate your pragmatism and generosity in sharing your time and practice wisdom with us in this research.

Thanks to Pat Conway and the staff of NIACRO and its partner organisations in Northern Ireland for allowing us to showcase the Challenge Hate Crime resources and ideas. It is difficult terrain, but you are helping to prevent one of the most serious crimes of our times.

There are numerous Australians to thank, and we are grateful to have these people in our lives and our professional networks. Thanks to Tasmania Prison Service and the Tasmanian Department of Justice, especially Steve Graham, Jonathon Field, Anthony Rees, Shaun Wheeler, Dr Kay Cuellar, Brian Edwards and Robert Williams. Thanks to Pat Burton and Second Bite, and Norm Reed and the Christian Family Centre for your contributions to this research and for inspiring us every time we have a conversation with you. Thanks to Martha Robson from Community Corrections and the Tasmania Corrections Think Tank, whose members were instrumental in running a 2010 offender reintegration conference where we had the epiphany that these ideas might matter to others. Thanks for the four years of conversations since, you are wise and helpful sounding boards.