5th Edition
by Daniel W. Van Ness (Author), Karen Heetderks Strong (Author)
Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice,
Fifth Edition, 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.
- Van Ness and Strong are renowned scholars in the field of restorative justice.
- This
edition places special emphasis on the importance of inclusion in
restorative justice -the opportunity for direct and active involvement
of the victim, offender, and community in the procedures that follow a
crime.
- A helpful appendix includes a visual case study that helps illustrate the concepts of the text.
