Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications

Edited by Katherine Stuart van Wormer

University of Northern Iowa, USA

Lorenn Walker University of Hawaii Honolulu Community College

2012 280 pages

SAGE Publications, Inc

Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications takes a hard look at the issues and concepts
surrounding restorative justice and current restorative practices used in a broad range of areas today. In a
time when the cost of prisons and jails is on the rise resulting in more offenders being kept out of the
community, this timely and contemporary book exposes readers to a range of restorative practices that can
be implemented with youths and adults, in schools, neighborhoods, prisons, child welfare agencies, and
international institutes of justice. The authors, renowned international experts in the area of restorative
justice, provide information not found in other restorative justice texts. Co-editor Lorenn Walker, who has
conducted workshops and facilitated victim-offender conferencing around the world, describes some of
her experiences in dramatic detail in this book. Katherine van Wormer describes how restorative strategies
can be applied in situations believed to be off limits, such as rape and domestic violence.
Key Features

This readable book pays special attention to unique areas for restorative practices, such as
environmental restoration, clergy sexual abuse, reentry from prison, interpersonal
violence, and peace making applications after wars, which are not discussed in other
restorative justice books.

Boxed essays offer personal testimonials from victims and offenders who have engaged
in restorative processes.

Contributors have national and international reputations and are well known for their
contributions to restorative justice research and practice.

Chapter-opening summaries help increase comprehension by prepare readers for what

they will read.

Critical thinking questions follow each chapter to improve reader understanding.

International coverage introduces positive innovations from other countries.

Contributors include Howard Zehr, Kay Pranis, Burt Galaway, Gabrielle Maxwell, David
Wexler, and Gale Burford.

Foreword by Northern Ireland law professor ShaddMaruna.

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Foreword

ShaddMaruna

Part I Overview: Introduction to Restorative Justice

Chapter 1: Restorative Justice: Definition and
Purpose
Box 1: Restorative Justice: Whats That?
Zehr

Lorenn Walker
Howard

Chapter 2: Reflections from a Descendant of the

Minnesota Restitution Center (MRC)

Kay Pranis

Chapter 3: Preparing Students of Criminal Justice

for Restorative Justice Practice

Rudi Kauffman, Heather

Koontz

Chapter 4: Restorative Justice and Therapeutic

Jurisprudence: All in the Family

David Wexler

Part II Overview: Prevention Programs And

Community Practice
Chapter 5: Restorative Justice for Victims Without
Offender Participation

Lorenn Walker

Chapter 6: A Story of the Emergence of Restorative Margaret Thorsborne

Practice in Schools in Australia and New Zealand:
Reflect, Repair, Reconnect
Chapter 7: Restorative Justice for Juvenile
Delinquents in Hong Kong and China

Dennis S.W. Wong

Chapter 8: Youth Justice and Restorative Justice in

Ida Hydle

Norway
Chapter 9: Beyond Policy: Conferencing on Student
Misbehavior

Lorenn Walker

Chapter 10: Family Group Conferences in Youth

Justice and Child Welfare in Vermont

Gale Burford

Chapter 11: Creating Healthy Residential

Communities in Higher Education Through the Use
of Restorative Practices

Ted Wachtel, Stacey Miller

Part III Overview: Pre-Trial: Before or After Arrest Diversion Programs

Chapter 12: Restorative and Diversionary
Responses to Youth Offending in New Zealand

Gabrielle Maxwell

Chapter 13: Community Members: Vital Voices to

the Restorative Justice Process

Mona Schatz

Chapter 14: Restorative Justice and Gendered

Violence

Anne Hayden, Katherine

van Wormer

Chapter 15: Clergy Child Sexual Abuse: The

Restorative Justice Option

Theo Gavrielides

Part IV Overview: In Correctional and Reentry

Programs
Chapter 16: "Hate Left Me That Day": Victim
Offender Dialogue in Vermont

Amy Holloway, Gale

Burford

Chapter 17: Brazils Restorative Prisons

Lorenn Walker, Andrew

Johnson, Katherine van
Wormer

Chapter 18: Restorative Justice Skills Building for

Incarcerated People

Lorenn Walker, Ted Sakai

Chapter 19: Huikahi Restorative Circles: A Public

Health Approach for Reentry Planning

Lorenn Walker, Rebecca

Greening

Chapter 20: Restorative Celebrations for Parolee

and Probationer Completion: The Importance of

Lorenn Walker

Ritual for Reentry

Part V Overview: Community Restoration and
Reparation
Chapter 21: Restorative Interventions for Post-War
Nations

Carl Stauffer

Chapter 22: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

and Transitional Justice in a Restorative Justice
Context

David K. Androff

Chapter 23: Social Work Values and Restorative

Justice

Marta Vides Saade

Chapter 24: Restorative Justice Almost 50 Years

Later: Japanese American Redress for Exclusion,
Restriction, and Incarceration

Rita Takashashi

Chapter 25: Speaking Earth: Environmental

Restoration and Restorative Justice

Fred H. Besthorn

Box : Native Restorative Justice Philosophy

Laura Mirsky

"Lorenn Walker and Katherine van Wormer assemble a very contemporary collection
of reforms, evidence and critique on the transformation of justice. Its pages are
graced with the reflections of many of the deepest thinkers and doers of restorative
justice. The book is a wonderful accomplishment that is strewn with so many gems
of beautiful thought and beautiful practice. This is an inspiring book for those
struggling to seek the heartland of a restorative vision."
John Braithwaite
Australian National University
"This book offers up-to-date, original scholarship on a variety of restorative justice
topics from multiple perspectives and a variety of countries. Its contents should be
of interest to scholars, practitioners, and educators alike. Much of the material is on
the cutting edgefor example, the detailed descriptions of restorative strategies for
situations of school bullying, gendered violence, reentry following incarceration, and
priest abuse.
John Graham
University of Calgary

"Restorative Justice Today is a needed contribution that begins the next phase of
serious discussion in the RJ field. While sound theory and research remain central to
advancement, this contribution provides an outline for expanding and
improving practice in a number of settings. The book samples stories of innovative
use of restorative justice and describes promising pathways to application in
settings from playgrounds to prisons, and across disparate cities and continents."
Gordon Bazemore, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University
"It will be a beautiful day in our world where Restorative Justice Today is read by all
who work in criminal justice as well as all who are impacted by crime. The book is
highly instructive and profoundly validating to the mind and heart in describing how
true justice can be achieved. This amazing book underscores how restorative justice
can and must be part of the criminal justice fabric and approach as a rule not as an
exception."
Sunny Schwartz