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A Restorative Justice Reader

Texts, sources, context

Edited by Gerry Johnstone (Hull University)


'This book will be an excellent resource for students and practitioners who seek a grasp of the range of contemporary perspectives on why restorative justice is an important movement' - Professor John Braithwaite, Australian National University 'The book addresses a huge gap in the field . . . We simply have not had a well conceived sourcebook for courses in restorative justice and the lack has been a significant problem' - Professor Howard Zehr, Eastern Mennonite University 'Will become an indispensable source of reference'
- Brian Williams, Editor, Victimology Review
A Restorative Justice Reader One of the most important developments in crime and its control over recent years has been the emergence of a dynamic campaign promoting restorative justice as an alternative to standard ways of responding to crime, i.e. legal prosecution and state punishment. Accompanying this has been a rapidly growing literature on the subject, from the UK, North America, Australasia and elsewhere.

The main aim of this book is to bring together a selection of extracts from the most important and influential contributions to the restorative justice literature and its emergent philosophy, accompanying these with an informative commentary providing context and explanation where necessary. The book includes work by both well known proponents of restorative justice, work by some of the key critics of the restorative justice movement, along with work from a number of writers not directly involved in either advocacy or critique of restorative justice, but whose work is crucial to an understanding of it.

The book is organised into five main sections:
  • the concept of restorative justice
  • historical, anthropological and theological roots of restorative justice
  • the goals - restoring victims and offenders and preventing crime
  • the restorative process
  • critical perspectives

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: restorative approaches to criminal justice
Part A: Overviews and early inspirations
Introduction
1 Restorative justice: an overview, Tony F. Marshall
2 Restitution: a new paradigm of criminal justice, Randy E. Barnett
3 Conflicts as property, Nils Christie
4 Retributive justice, restorative justice, Howard Zehr
5 Restorative justice and a better future, John Braithwaite
Part B: The background: legacies and frameworks
Introduction
6 The background of the Western legal tradition, Harold J. Berman
7 The history of restorative justice, Elmar G. M. Weitekamp
8 Returning to the Teachings, Rupert Ross
9 Navajo restorative justice: the law of equality and justice, Robert Yazzie and James W Zion
10 The Maori restorative tradition, Jim Consedine
11 Christianity: the rediscovery of restorative justice, Pierre Allard and Wayne Northey
Part C: Restorative justice practice: variations, development and rationales
Introduction
12 The Kitchener experiment, Dean E. Peachey
13 Justice without lawyers: enabling people to resolve their conflicts, Martin Wright
14 Restorative justice in New Zealand: family group conferences as a case study, Allison Morris and Gabrielle Maxwell
15 Family conferencing in Wagga Wagga: a communitarian model of justice, D. B. Moore and T. A. O'Connell
16 A comparison of four restorative conferencing models, Gordon Bazemore and Mark Umbreit
Part D: Doing restorative justice in modern society
Introduction
17 Restorative justice for juveniles: just a technique or a fully fledged alternative?, Lode Walgrave
18 Creating restorative systems, Daniel W Van Ness
19 The function of forgiveness in the criminal justice system, John R. Gehm
20 justice for victims of young offenders: the centrality of emotional harm and restoration, Heather Strang
21 Community is not a place: a new look at community justice initiatives, Paul McCold and Benjamin Wachtel
22 What is relational justice? Michael Schluter
23 In the hands of the public? Adam Crawford
24 Does restorative justice work? John Braithwaite
Part E: Some critical issues
Introduction
25 Restorative justice: the real story, Kathleen Daly
26 Restorative punishment and punitive restoration, R. A. Duff
27 Just cops doing 'shameful' business? Police-led restorative justice and the lessons of research, Richard Young
28 Reconsidering restorative justice: the corruption of benevolence revisited?
Sharon Levrant, Francis T Cullen, Betsy Fulton and John F Wozniak
29 Responsibilities, rights and restorative justice, Andrew Ashworth
30 Restorative justice: the challenge of sexual and racial violence, Barbara Hudson
31 Deconstructing restoration: the promise of restorative justice, George Pavlich
32 Critiquing the critics: a brief response to critics of restorative justice, Allison Morris
Appendices
A Declaration of Leuven on the Advisability of Promoting the Restorative Approach to juvenile Crime
B Statement of Restorative justice Principles
Restorative Justice Consortium
C Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative justice Programmes in Criminal Matters (UN), 2000
Name index
Subject index


'This is going to be an invaluable resource . . . an authoritative overview of the restorative justice world'
- Daniel van Ness, International Centre for Justice and Reconciliation, Prison Fellowship International
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