Overview

This edited collection explores the concept of Generative Justice and how it might help us reimagine conventional responses to crime and state punishment. With case studies from the Global North and South, it offers insights into how, within different cultural contexts, justice-involved people find solidarity, belonging and purpose. The book showcases exciting and innovative projects and communities in which unlikely solidarities have been forged among diverse people, through creative practices, education, food, horticulture, and through shared experiences of reentry, recovery and desistance. By exploring the common features and qualities of these generative places, the book sets out an agenda for future research and activism.

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Author:   Fergus McNeill (University of Glasgow) ,  Mary Corcoran (Keele University) ,  Beth Weaver (The University of Strathclyde)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529245905

ISBN 10:   1529245907
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   29 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introducing Generative Justice – Fergus McNeill, Mary Corcoran and Beth Weaver 2. Generative Justice: The Cooperative Way – Beth Weaver 3. Generative Justice at LandWorks: Sam’s story – Julie Parsons and Samuel Auchterlonie 4. Kitchen table justice: Reflections on what abolition and food justice can teach us about generative justice – Kelsey Timler and Cathee Porter 5. Global South Generative Justice? A study of education and reintegration in ‘prisons without police’ in Brazil – Sergio Grossi 6. Bearing Witness to State Power: Peer Support in Prison as an Expression of Generative Justice – William McGowan and Christian Perrin 7. Generative Justice and systems change: Five lessons learned in reentry – Ruth Armstrong, Karen Hamer, Dempsey Lewis and Cedric Martin 8. Opening Minds, Hearts, and Visions: Building Generative Justice through Interactions among Choir Volunteers and Incarcerated Individuals – Mary L. Cohen and Richard Winemiller 9. Generative Justice in Hindsight: On knowing, doing, and sharing participatory arts-based research with criminal justice-impacted communities – Emma Murray, Lucía Arias, Gillian Buck, Kemi Ryan and Natasha Ryan 10. A Perspective from Practice: making together, between limitations and possibilities – Alison Urie 11. The Generative Culture of Recovery: the intersection of coloniality, utopian visioning and generative justice – David Patton 12. The Re/integrative Potential of Generative Spaces: A Case Study of the Place – Alejandro Rubio Arnal 13. Possibilities for Generative Justice in the Penal Voluntary Sector – Kaitlyn Quinn

Reviews

'Generative justice (GJ) is a new term, and this innovative book demonstrates its practical and theoretical potential. Justice is not some lofty and remote conception nor does it belong only to the formal systems of the state. The book itself models the ways in which different perspectives on crime can be pooled in GJ to point towards novel pathways to desistance and reconciliation.' Rob Canton, De Montfort University

Author Information

Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow. Mary Corcoran is Professor of Criminology at Keele University. Beth Weaver is Professor of Criminal and Social Justice at the University of Strathclyde.

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