Crime, Punishment, and Restorative Justice

Can restorative justice be applied to a full range of offenses? Ross London answers with an unequivocal ""Yes."" London proposes that, by focusing on the restoration of personal and social trust, restoration may become acknowledged as the overarching goal of all criminal justice policies and practices. While supporting the use of restorative justice as a non-punitive alternative for appropriate cases, London argues that deserved punishment for serious offenses--far from contradicting the go...