Authors: Daniel W. Van Ness, Karen Heetderks Strong
ISBN-13: 9781422463307, ISBN-10: 1422463303
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Anderson Publishing Company OH
Date Published: March 2010
Edition: 4th Edition
Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with growing worldwide influence. It explores the broad appeal of this new vision and offers a brief history of its development. The book presents a theoretical foundation for the principles and values of restorative justice and develops its four cornerpost ideas of encounter, amends, inclusion and reintegration. After exploring how restorative justice ideas and values may be integrated into policy and practice, it presents a series of key issues commonly raised about restorative justice, summarizing various perspectives on each.
Part One: The Concept of Restorative Justice
1. Visions and Patterns: How Patterns of Thinking can Obstruct Justice
2. A Brief History of Restorative Justice: The Development of a New Pattern of Thinking
3. Restorative Justice: Justice That Promotes Healing
Part Two: The Cornerposts of Restorative Justice
4. Encounter
5. Amends
6. Reintegration
7. Inclusion
Part Three: The Challenge of Restorative Justice
8. Making Restorative Justice Happen
9. Toward a Restorative System
10. Transformation