Beyond Incarceration: Safety and True Criminal Justice

by Paula Mallea

Paula Mallea sets out suggestions for a complete overhaul of Canada’s incarceration model of criminal justice. In its current state, incarceration promotes recidivism and jeopardizes public safety, is highly discriminatory, and is ruinously expensive.

177 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2017

Reviews

[Kayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was definitely challenging to read this, since it is so easy to fall into the belief that the sort of things this book details wouldn't happen in Canada, because we are better than that.
Confronting those ideas, and shedding light on them, is important. We need to do better than we have been, and Mallea offers concrete suggestions on different models of justice we could drawn on in order to a) send fewer people to prison, and b) rehabilitate not only the offender, but the community.
While at first I was just despairing at the state of justice system and prisons, by the end I at least had some hope for a more functional future.

[Maggie Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paula Mallea's Beyond Incarceration is a very accessible book geared towards teaching people all about criminal justice in Canada, specifically where we go wrong and potential ways of fixing things. It is carefully written so that it both discusses these issues in a way that can be understood by non-lawyers, but also not overly simplistic. It is obviously a progressive piece, but Mallea supports her points well with evidence. This is definitely going on my list of books I can recommend when people ask me about what I do!