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Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of Our Everyday Lives (2nd ed.)
Dennis Sullivan & Larry Tifft
(Paperback)
2005, 266 pages
ISBN: 1-881798-63-1
$30.00

This new edition greatly expands the authors’ radical critique of the existing justice system and their argument for extending restorative justice principles far beyond the legal system, to families, schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. The new edition is over 50% longer, and it presents many more applications and case examples of the distinctive “needs-based” restorative justice approach advocated by the authors. In addition to thorough discussions of conferencing, circles and victim-offender mediation programs, illustrative applications range worldwide from an “inclusion” school in New Jersey, to “truth commissions” in two dozen nations, and to indigenous reconciliation courts in Rwanda, among many other case studies.

Contents include: the emergence of restorative justice; core components of restorative justice; programs of restorative justice; reintegration into what?; needs-based justice as restorative; the violence of power and restorative justice; a radical perspective on crime and social harm; the personal foundations of restorative justice; and restorative justice as a transformative process.

"This book explicates and advocates a truly radical vision for the 'reconstruction of the social order.' The authors...tender everything from practical short term reforms for tweaking the criminal justice system in the direction of 'equal well-being,' to prophetic reflections for 'healing the foundations (i.e. the roots, radix) of our everyday lives.'" Walt Chiura, Contemporary Justice Review.

“…100 percent of what the study of crime should be: an explicitly moral, sometimes painfully personal exploration of harm in all its forms.” Shadd Maruna, British Journal of Criminology (review of 1st ed.)

"...the book provides some wondeful material for policy makers and faith sojourners alike." Prof. Rick Sarre, Criminal Justice Review (forthcoming).

“This is an important book that makes a theoretically fresh contribution as a transformative approach…It is elegantly written and will be attractive to students amd general readers as well as criminal justice experts.” John Braithwaite, Australian National University

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