A comprehensive collection of original articles by renowned international scholars, this handbook is a vade mecum for all students and scholars. It surveys the entire landscape of restorative justice from its origins, philosophical and spiritual foundations, to ways in which its principles can be structured into social institutions to effect social change. List of illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Author biographical sketches
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Introduction: The healing dimension of restorative justice: a one-world body
1(16)
Dennis Sullivan
Larry Tifft
Section I: Restorative justice processes and practices
17(130)
The recent history of restorative justice: mediation, circles, and conferencing
23(29)
Paul McCold
Victim offender mediation: an evolving evidence-based practice
52(11)
Mark S. Umbreit
Robert B. Coates
Betty Vos
Victim offender mediation and restorative justice: the European landscape
63(28)
Christa Pelikan
Thomas Trenczek
Conferencing and restorative justice
91(17)
Gabrielle Maxwell
Allison Morris
Hennessey Hayes
Restorative justice and recidivism: promises made, promises kept?
108(13)
James Bonta
Rebecca Jesseman
Tanya Rugge
Robert Cormier
Peacemaking circles: reflections on principal features and primary outcomes
121(13)
Barry Stuart
Kay Pranis
The limits of restorative justice
134(13)
Kathleen Daly
Section II: The foundations of restorative justice
147(60)
Navajo peacemaking: original dispute resolution and a life way
151(10)
James W. Zion
Robert Yazzie
The African concept of ubuntu and restorative justice
161(13)
Dirk J. Louw
Spiritual foundations of restorative justice
174(14)
Michael L. Hadley
Empathy and restoration
188(10)
Hal Pepinsky
Sanctuary as a refuge from state justice
198(9)
Peter Cordella
Section III: The needs of victims and the healing process
207(62)
Responding to the needs of victims: what was promised, what has been delivered
211(10)
Mary Achilles
Lorraine Stutzman-Amstutz
Restoration of the assumptive world as an act of justice
221(9)
Jeffrey Kauffman
Murder victims' families for reconciliation: story--telling for healing, as witness, and in public policy
230(16)
Judith W. Kay
Hearing the victim's voice amidst the cry for capital punishment
246(15)
James R. Acker
The other victims: the families of those punished by the state
261(8)
Judith Brink
Section IV: Making things right: extending restorative justice
269(68)
Changing boundaries of the `victim' in restorative justice: so who is the victim now?
273(13)
Sandra Walklate
Stopping domestic violence or protecting children? Contributions from restorative justice
286(13)
Joan Pennell
Are there limits to restorative justice? The case of child sexual abuse
299(12)
Anne-Marie McAlinden
Restoring justice through forgiveness: the case of children in Northern Ireland
311(10)
Anthony C. Holter
Joseph Martin
Robert D. Enright
Restorative justice in transition: ownership, leadership, and `bottom-up' human rights
321(16)
Kieran McEvoy
Anna Eriksson
Section V: Gross human rights violations and transitional justice
337(98)
Essential elements of healing after massive trauma: complex needs voiced by victims/survivors
343(12)
Yael Danieli
Exploring the relationship between reparations, the gross violation of human rights, and restorative justice
355(14)
Chris Cunneen
Truth and reconciliation in Serbia
369(18)
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic
Transitional justice, restoration, and prosecution
387(14)
Charles Villa-Vicencio
Restorative justice and the governance of security in the Southwest Pacific
401(21)
Sinclair Dinnen
Rwanda's failing experiment in restorative justice
422(13)
Lars Waldorf
Section VI: Critical commentaries on restorative justice
435(60)
Restorative justice and the criminological enterprise
439(13)
David O. Friedrichs
Shame, sharing and restorative justice: a critical appraisal
452(11)
Nathan Harris
Shadd Maruna
Community justice versus restorative justice: contrasts in family of value
463(9)
Todd R. Clear
Postmodernism's challenges to restorative justice
472(11)
Bruce A. Arrigo
A feminist vision of justice? The problems and possibilities of restorative justice for girls and women
483(12)
Emily Gaarder
Lois Presser
Section VII: Transformative justice and structural change
495(72)
Toward a `radical' paradigm of restorative justice
499(13)
David G. Gil
Environmental policy and management in Costa Rica: sustainable development and deliberative democracy
512(15)
Edward J. Martin
Reaching toward a structurally responsive training and practice of restorative justice
527(19)
David Dyck
The Good Samaritan or the person in the ditch? An attempt to live a restorative justice lifestyle
546(9)
Fred Boehrer
Transformative justice: the transformation of restorative justice
555(12)
M. Kay Harris
Index
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