Alternative Offender Rehabilitation and Social Justice: Arts and Physical Engagement in Criminal Justice and Community Settings

202 Pages·2015·3.84 MB·English

by  Janelle Joseph

Alternative Offender Rehabilitation and Social Justice

Alternative Offender
Rehabilitation and
Social Justice
Arts and Physical Engagement in
Criminal Justice and Community Settings
Edited by
Janelle Joseph
University of Toronto, Canada
and
Wesley Crichlow
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Janelle Joseph and Wesley
Crichlow 2015
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction: Towards Arts and Physical Activity as
Mindful Alternative Rehabilitation 1
Wesley Crichlow and Janelle Joseph
Part 1 – Mindfulness Programming 13
1 Meditation Practices and the Reduction of
Aggression and Violence: Towards a Gender-Sensitive,
Humanitarian, Healing-Based Intervention 15
Gwen Hunnicutt and Daniel Rhodes
2 “I Feel Mad Light”: Sharing Mindfulness-Based
Strategies with Troubled Youth 32
Carla Barrett
Part 2 – Physical Engagement Programs 53
3 Physical Culture and Alternative Rehabilitation:
Qualitative Insights from a Martial Arts
Intervention Program 55
Janelle Joseph
4 Prison Yoga as a Correctional Alternative?: Physical
Culture, Rehabilitation, and Social Control in
Canadian Prisons 78
Mark Norman
5 Moving Beyond “Just Fun and Games”: The Process
and Outcomes of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Programming for Institutionalized Girls 99
Allison J. Foley
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Part 3 – Arts Engagement Programs 121
6 The Art of Rehabilitation: Extracurricular
Activities and the Disruption of
Intergenerational Incarceration 123
Bryan L. Sykes, Jason P. Gioviano, and Alex R. Piquero
7 Evaluating Drama-Based Crime Prevention:
Problems, Politics, and New Directions 144
Laura Kelly, Victoria Foster, and Anne Hayes
8 Scrimmage-Play: Writing and Reading Short
Fiction with Incarcerated Men 165
Michael Lockett, Rebecca Luce-Kapler, and Dennis Sumara
Concluding Remarks: Challenges and Prospects
of an Alternative Rehabilitation 181
Wesley Crichlow and Livy Visano
Index 193
Acknowledgements
We would first like to thank all of the contributors and their research
participants for making this project possible. Also, the team at Pal-
grave has been patient and supportive. Thank you. Last, we acknowl-
edge the central role played by the University of Ontario Institute of
Technology and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council
for financially supporting the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
that brought us together.
–Janelle Joseph and Wesley Crichlow
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Notes on Contributors
Carla J. Barrett is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay Col-
lege. Her book, Courting Kids: Inside an Experimental Youth Court (2013)
explores the contradictions inherent in the practice of trying youth
as adults and the need for more humane policies and community-
based rehabilitation for youth.
Wesley Crichlow is a tenured Associate Professor at the University
of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is an interdisciplinary youth
scholar and community social justice activist who works with socially
and economically disadvantaged youth, engaging in community
empowerment. He works with others to transform criminal justice
rehabilitation models to be more inclusive, culturally relevant, and
engaging for disenfranchised communities.
Allison Foley is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia
Regents University in Augusta, Georgia. She studies gender, crime,
victimization, and corrections and worked for the Blueprints for Vio-
lence Prevention Initiative while receiving her PhD in sociology from
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Victoria Foster lectures in social sciences at Edge Hill University and
draws on her background in fine art to inform her research with mar-
ginalized groups. Her ESRC-funded doctoral and post-doctoral research
employed a participatory arts-based methodology to look at women’s
experiences of mothering in poverty. She is preparing a monograph
titled Doing Collaborative Arts-Based Research for Social Justice: A Guide.
Jason Gioviano recently completed his master’s degree in sociology
at DePaul University. His research interests focus on neighbourhood
effects on crime and mass incarceration. He is currently working as an
analyst for a higher education consulting firm near Chicago.
Anne Hayes is a criminology lecturer at Liverpool John Moores
University whose research interests revolve around young people’s
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Notes on Contributors ix
experiences of the criminal justice system, gangs and gang identity,
sexual exploitation and targeted grooming and abuse of girls in/by
gangs, gender, and miscarriages of justice.
Gwen Hunnicutt is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s
and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina Greens-
boro. Gwen received her PhD in sociology in 2003 from the Univer-
sity of New Mexico. Professor Hunnicutt studies various dimensions
of gender violence and is currently preparing a manuscript that
explores the intersection of ecology, feminism, and gender
violence.
Janelle Joseph is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto.
She is a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow whose research on the
intersections of culture, gender, and physical activity has been pub-
lished widely in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies and Identi-
ties: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Laura Kelly lectures in criminology at Liverpool John Moores Uni-
versity. She was awarded her PhD for research on youth crime and
sports-based interventions in 2008. She is currently co-authoring a
monograph entitled Sport and Criminology: A Critical Perspective and
is co-investigator on an ESRC-funded project exploring policy imple-
mentation in youth justice.
Michael Lockett is a curriculum scholar with a background in literary
studies and mathematics. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Rebecca Luce-Kapler is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and
Research in the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. She is author
of Writing with, through, and beyond the Text: An Ecology of Language. She
is co-author of Engaging Minds: Changing Teaching in Complex Times and
Language and Learning: An Introduction for Teaching.
Mark Norman is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Kinesiology and
Physical Education at the University of Toronto. His doctoral research
focuses on physical culture and sport in Canadian prisons. He has
published papers in the Sociology of Sport Journal and the Journal of
Sport and Social Issues.