ABSTRACT
Criminal offenders are often portrayed and treated as outsiders, who are excluded (at least for a time) from full membership of the polity – from full citizenship. This chapter explores the possibility of a criminal law that is inclusionary rather than exclusionary – one that treats offenders as citizens. This will involve seeing offenders as having active roles to play in the enterprise of criminal law, and seeing criminal punishment as something that (in a just system) offenders could be expected to undertake rather than merely to undergo.
