1st Edition
Developing Restorative Justice Jurisprudence Rethinking Responses to Criminal Wrongdoing
Biography
Tony Foley is Associate Professor in the Australian National University College of Law. His research interests focus on the operation of the legal system, its limitations and possibilities. These interests are diverse, including institutional responses to criminal wrongdoing; restorative justice and juvenile justice; ethical practice in lawyers; and the work of court interpreters. His perspectives are similarly diverse - as a legal academic teaching and researching in clinical legal practice and the legal profession; as a lawyer practising in criminal law and as a tribunal member adjudicating environmental administrative disputes.
’This is a welcome addition to restorative justice literature. Tony Foley joins those who argue that restorative and retributive justice can and should be integrated. He proposes jurisprudential and systemic changes that would move criminal justice closer to such a joint purpose. His "minimalist approach" deserves careful consideration - and adoption.’ Daniel W. Van Ness, Prison Fellowship International, USA ’A thoughtful and distinctive approach to transforming criminal law jurisprudence. Tony Foley identifies deficiencies in both restorative and criminal justice and then seeks to forge a provocative new amalgam. This is a book serious criminal law scholars must read.’ John Braithwaite, Australian National University
