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Give Peace a Chance: Community Corrections as Peacemaking

Klein, L
June 4, 2015

Source: (1996) Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 20-23, 1996, 20p.

The peacemaking movement incorporates humanist values favoring alteration in the treatment of domestic violence, homelessness, and basic criminal justice policies. Peacemaking is highlighted through localized coalition building, as a basic response to everyday community concerns. This paper invokes the peacemaking framework in assessing the creation of citizen and industrial co-production of crime control activities. The analysis considers the development of grass roots community building action, as an alternative to bureaucratic government sponsored criminal justice functions and citizen action.

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