Overview

Since the 1990s, the community of scholar-activists who have had contact with the criminal legal system has grown rapidly, solidifying into an international movement. Drawing on in-depth conversations with system-affected academics as well as his own experience with incarceration, Grant E. Tietjen traces the history, positive impacts, and future promise of this movement. By offering networks of support to system-affected people seeking higher education and using the perspectives afforded them by their lived experiences to push their disciplines forward, the movement effects reciprocal changes between the individual and the entire institution of higher education. These changes, Tietjen argues, ripple outward and stand to contribute to the wider movement against carceral responses to harm.

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9780520394070

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“Justice Lessons gives us a refreshing analysis of a social issue that really hasn’t been studied much. Through thoughtful personal introspection, reflective observations, and careful analysis of interviews, this book gives useful concepts and frameworks to the field of criminal justice education.” * Journal of Criminal Justice Education *

Author Information

Grant E. Tietjen is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington Tacoma.

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