A Restorative Justice Reader [Hardcover]

A Restorative Justice Reader brings together carefully chosen extracts from the most important and influential contributions to the literature of restorative justice, accompanying these with an informative commentary providing context and explanation. It includes works by both well known advocates of restorative justice and by some of the key critics of the restorative justice movement.

The new edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of the rapid expansion of the literature of restorative justice over the last decade. Classical readings are accompanied by more recent literature representing the most significant contributions to research, discussion and debate concerning restorative justice.

Part A: Overviews and early inspirations  Introduction  1. A new paradigm arises  2. The meaning of restorative justice  3. Retributive justice, restorative justice  4. Conflicts as property  5. Restitution: a new paradigm of criminal justice  6. Restorative justice and a better future  Part B: Practices, applications and their rationales  Introduction  7. The Kitchener experiment  8.  Encounter  9. The future of mediation  10. Strategy for Community Conferences: Emotions and Social Bonds  11. Peacemaking circles  12. Navajo restorative justice: the law of equality and justice  13. Restorative justice and prisons  14. Restorative justice and police-led cautioning practice  15. Restorative justilã7