Restorative Justice: Critical Issues / Edition 1

by Eugene McLaughlin, Ross Fergusson, Gordon Hughes, Louise Westmarland

Overview

Restorative Justice brings together key international writings that trace the development of restorative justice from its diverse beginnings to current global policies and practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761942092
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/02/2003
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eugene Mc Laughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

My research interests include gender and the police, violence and integrity and ethics in the criminal justice system. I’m also interested in ethnographic research methods, danger, fear and situations where privileged access leads to dilemmas for researchers. In the past I have published articles on police informers and the way they are regulated and the effect of this upon rights and justice. More recently I’ve completed a book about research methods in criminology. My other recent research projects have included studying women bouncers and violence in the context of social control of the night time economy (ESRC Grant reference: RES-000-23-0384-A). This project was called Women on the Door: Female Bouncers in the New Night-time Economy carried out with Professor Dick Hobbs.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Theorizing Restorative Justice - Eugene Mc Laughlin et al
PART ONE: FOUNDING PROPOSITIONS
Crimes as Property - N Christie
Moving into a New Millennium - K Harris
Toward a Feminist Vision of Justice
Reforming Justice - J Tauri and A Morris
The Potential of Maori Processes
Fundamental Concepts of Restorative Justice - H Zehr and H Mika
Restorative Justice and a Better Future - J Braithwaite
PART TWO: CORE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
Restorative Family Group Conferences - M Umbreit and H Zehr
Differing Models and Guidelines for Practice
Conferences, Circles, Boards and Mediations - G Bazemore and C T Griffiths
The New Wave of Community Justice Decision Making
Restorative Justice Cautioning in Aylesbury - From Degrading to Reintegrative Shaming Ceremonies? - R Young and B Gould
Restorative Justice and Family Group Conferences in England - J Dignan and P Marsh
Current State and Future Prospects
Women Offenders and the Challenge of Restorative Justice - C Adler Young
Revisioning Men's Violence against Female Partners - A Morris and L Gelsthorpe
Justice or Sweet Charity? Some Explorations of Shaming and Incapacitating - M Levi Suite
PART THREE: AN INCOMPLETE PROJECT?
Restorative Justice and Social Justice - J Braithwaite
Is Restorative Justice the Way Forward for Criminal Justice? - A Ashworth
Critical Thinking about Restorative Justice - C Cuneen
Restorative Justice - K Daly
The Real Story
Community Justice - A Crawford and T Clear
Transforming Communities through Restorative Justice

Editorial Reviews

"The introduction is presented in such a way that the reader is very much enticed to continue reading. This book was very worthwhile. The book's approach to concepts, application, and challenges was appropriate."

Thomas Underwood