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Justice Matters: essay from the pandemic: Essays from the pandemic by Jessie Brennan; Rhona Friedman; Mandy Groves; Sue James; Simon Mullings; Justice Alliance is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Justice Matters is a collection of essays which together tell a powerful story of the impact of COVID-19, the responses to it, and the hope for change. It seeks to document, in some small way, the effects of the pandemic viewed through the lens of the justice system. We are living through an unprecedented public health crisis. As the pandemic gathered pace, we started to see much more clearly that those in food poverty, from BAME backgrounds, in poor housing, insecure employment, the homeless, the elderly and the disabled were the worst affected. The virus exposed the underlying structural health, race and class inequality in British society. We saw that a decade of austerity had eviscerated health and social care and public services and plunged the justice system into crisis. But we also saw hope and what can be achieved if there is collective action and the political will. The homeless were housed and refugees were released from immigration detention. There was a stay on possession cases and a moratorium on benefit sanctions. Ordinary people looked out for each other in ways that we would not previously have imagined. We have worked together and shown what is possible through cam

Author

Jessie Brennan; Rhona Friedman; Mandy Groves; Sue James; Simon Mullings; Justice Alliance

Publisher

London: Legal Action Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781913648053

Subjects

Law