Restorative Justice Practice

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-415-85639-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Criminology

Restorative justice brings together those affected by harm to speak, listen, and repair. Over three decades it has spread from a handful of experiments to a practice written into law and policy across most of the world. That success raises a new question: what allows restorative justice movements not just to grow, but to take root and flourish?

Meredith Rossner and Helen Taylor answer this using the metaphor of a garden. A single restorative conference is a ritual encounter that, like a seed, needs the right conditions to grow: the people, organisations, and political climate around it. The book follows that growth from the pioneering experiments of 1970s North America to the foundational developments of the 1990s, including the emergence of restorative justice in New Zealand's youth justice reforms and foundational Australian research into its effectiveness. From there it traces the move to the institutionalised programmes of today. A central case is Northern Ireland, where restorative justice grew from communities seeking alternatives to paramilitary violence and from a state pursuing institutional reform. The book then turns to the field's emerging, most contested frontiers: domestic, family and sexual violence, environmental harm, and hate crime. The result is a fresh way of understanding how restorative justice spreads, where it stalls, and what it would take to flourish.

This book will be of interest to restorative justice practitioners, criminology and criminal justice scholars, policy makers, and community organisations. It provides essential insights for anyone studying, implementing, or advocating for restorative approaches to harm and conflict resolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossner, Meredith

Taylor, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Restorative Garden 2. How the Garden Grew: Restorative Justice in the Criminal Legal System 3. Tending and Fencing: Emerging Tensions with the Growth of Restorative Justice 4. From Grassroots to Governance: Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland 5. Emerging Gardens of Restorative Justice 6. Conditions for Flourishing

Über Autor(innen)

Meredith Rossner is Professor of Criminology and Lead of the Crime and Social Justice Programme at POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research at the Australian National University.

Helen Taylor is a Senior Lecturer at POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research at the Australian National University.