Restorative Justice Books

New and Published Books

1. Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice

   Overcoming Intractability in Divided Societies

   By Nevin Aiken

   Series: Transitional Justice

   Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Transitional Justice in Rwanda

   Accountability for Atrocity

   By Gerald Gahima

   Transitional Justice in Rwanda: Accountability for Atrocity comprehensively analyzes the full range of the transitional justice processes undertaken for the Rwandan genocide. Drawing on the author’s extensive professional experience as the principal justice policy maker and the leading law...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. A Restorative Justice Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Gerry Johnstone

   A Restorative Justice Reader brings together carefully chosen extracts from the most important and influential contributions to the literature of restorative justice, accompanying these with an informative commentary providing context and explanation. It includes works by both well known advocates...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Willan
4. Cultures of Desistance

   Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Ethnic Minorities

   By Adam Calverley

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary by ethnicity has received less attention. This is despite known ethnic...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Routledge
5. Justice in Transition

   By Anna Eriksson

   This book provides a unique account of the high-profile community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and Loyalist communities that have emerged with the ending of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Unprecedented new partnerships between Republican communities and the Police Service...

   Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Restoring Justice after Large-scale Violent Conflicts

   Edited by Ivo Aertsen, Jana Arsovska, Holger-C Rohne, Marta Valiñas, Kris Vanspauwen

   This book provides a comparative analysis of the potential of restorative justice approaches to dealing with mass victimization in the context of large-scale violent conflicts focusing on case studies from Kosovo, Israel-Palestine and Congo, incorporating contributions from leading authorities in...

   Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Rethinking Policing and Justice

   Exploring Alternatives to Law Enforcement

   Edited by Luis Fernandez, Laura Huey

   It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the ‘gatekeepers’ of the criminal justice system and thus as a mechanism for the provision of justice. And yet, when we conceptualize the police in this way, what is often taken for granted is the exact nature of that role and its larger...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
8. Restorative Justice

   Ideas, Values, Debates, 2nd Edition

   By Gerry Johnstone

   Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, neither meets the needs of crime victims nor prevents reoffending. In its place, they suggest,...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Introduction to Corrections

   By David H. McElreath, Linda Keena, Greg Etter, Ellis Stuart, Jr.

   Millions in our nation are under some type of judicial sanction, with some individuals behind bars but the majority serving their sentences while living and working among us. Introduction to Corrections examines predominant issues related to the system of administering to offenders in the United...

   Published July 26th 2011 by CRC Press
10. Restorative Justice in Practice

    Evaluating What Works for Victims and Offenders

    By Joanna Shapland, Gwen Robinson, Angela Sorsby

    Restorative justice has made significant progress in recent years and now plays an increasingly important role in and alongside the criminal justice systems of a number of countries in different parts of the world. In many cases, however, successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses have not...

    Published May 3rd 2011 by Willan