This book demonstrates that alternative approaches to criminal rehabilitation succeed in developing pro-social attitudes and in improving mental, physical and spiritual health for youth and adults in prison and community settings. The use of mindfulness is highlighted as a foundational tool of self-reflexivity, creative expression and therapy.

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