Transforming Justice through Collective Care

Course description

Canada’s current justice system perpetuates inequality and ultimately fails to achieve public safety, particularly for our most vulnerable members. While Canada spends $20 billion dollars annually on incarceration, there are urgent calls to address the housing affordability crisis, the defunding of health care and social services, and the underfunding of education. This talk will invite the audience to think about justice as accomplished in relationships and generated in communities. We will consider the transformative potential of community-engaged work, and how working in partnership with people exiting prison helps to create a more just world built on collective care.

This offering is part of UVic's 5 Days of Action events. 5 Days of Action is a free, week-long event aimed at amplifying the work groups, units and organizations are doing to create a more diverse, inclusive and equitable campus and community throughout the year.