Alternative Offender Rehabilitation and Social Justice

Dr. Janelle Joseph is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow whose research on the intersections of culture, gender and physical activity has been published widely in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.   Dr. Wesley Crichlow is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. 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.

• Introduction: Towards Arts and Physical Engagement as Mindful Alternative Rehabilitation; Wesley Crichlow and Janelle Joseph1. Meditation Practices and the Reduction of Aggression and Violence: Towards a Gender-Sensitive, Humanitarian, Healing-Based Intervention; Gwen Hunnicutt and Daniel Rhodes2. ""I Feel Mad Light"": Sharing Mindfulness-Based Strategies with Troubled Youth; Carla Barrett3. Physical Culture and Alternative Rehabilitation: Qualitative Insights from a Martial Arts Intervention Program; Janelle Joseph4. Prison Yoga as a Correctional Alternative?: Physical Culture, Rehabilitation, and Social Control in Canadian Prisons; Mark Norman5. Moving Beyond ""Just Fun and Games"": The Process and Outcomes of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Programming for Institutionalized Girls; Allison J. Foley6. The Art of Rehabilitation: Extracurricular Activities and the Disruption of Intergenerational Incarceration; Bryan L. Sykes, Jason P. Gioviano and Alex R. Piquero7. Evaluating Drama-Based Crime Prevention: Problems, Politics, and New Directions; Laura Kelly, Victoria Foster and Anne Hayes8. Scrimmage-play: Writing and Reading Short Fiction with Incarcerated Men; Michael Lockett, Rebecca Luce-Kapler and Dennis Sumara9. Concluding Remarks: Challenges and Prospects of an Alternative Rehabilitation; Wesley Crichlow and Livy Visano