Table of Contents
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 justice, gendered violence, and indigenous women
16. Responding to hate crimes through restorative justice dialogue
17. Restorative justice and reparations
Part C: Philosophies and values Introduction 18. Returning to the Teachings
19. Needs-based justice as restorative
20. Seeking socio-ethical grounds for restorative justice
21. Restorative justice and the philosophical theories of criminal punishment
Part D: Evaluating restorative justice Introduction 22. Evaluation and restorative justice principles
23. Does restorative justice work?
24. Restorative justice: the evidence
25. Reducing recidivism: a task for restorative justice
26 Repair or revenge?
Part E: Controversies and critical issues Introduction 27. Restorative justice: the real story
28. Responsibilities, rights and restorative justice
29. The virtues of restorative processes, the vices of ‘restorative justice’
30. Some sociological reflections on restorative justice
31. Justice anew
32. The seductive vision of restorative justice
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