Restorative Justice – Politics, Policies and Prospects

Product Details:
Author(s):
Dissel, A ,
Parmentier, S and
Van der Spuy, E
Year Published:
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
This book contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference entitled ‘The politics of restorative justice in South Africa and beyond’, held near Cape Town in 2006. The conference aimed to foster debate on and about restorative justice, its methodological assumptions, its policy permutations, and the kinds of strategic interventions and practices adopted in its name.
Content
PART I INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Situating restorative youth justice in crime control and prevention – Adam Crawford  
Victim-offender dialogue in violent cases: a multi-site study in the United States – Mark S. Umbreit, Betty Vos, Robert B. Coates and Kathy Brown 
Crime control developments in post-modern societies and in societies in transition  – Hans-Jürgen Kerner  
The institutionalisation of restorative justice: justice and the ethics of discourse – Barbara Hudson  
An ethical justification for the theory of law as peacemaking – Robert E Mackay  
Restorative justice through networking: a report from Europe – Ivo Aertsen   
 
PART II RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, CRIME AND (IN)SECURITY IN AFRICA
Development, social justice and global governance: challenges to implementing restorative and criminal justice reform in South Africa – Tony Roshan Samara 
Exploring the impact of gated communities on social and spatial justice and its relation to restorative justice and peace-building in South Africa – Karina Landman  
Back to the future in South African security: from intentions to effective mechanisms – Clifford Shearing and Don Foster 
‘He must buy what he stole and then we forgive’: restorative justice in Rwanda and Sierra Leone – Bruce Baker   
Narrating the spirit of justice – Carl Stauffer  
 
PART III RETRIBUTION AND RESTORATION IN CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Is punishment the appropriate response to gross human rights violations? Is a nonpunitive justice system feasible? – Ezzat A. Fattah  
Tapping indigenous knowledge: traditional conflict resolution, restorative justice and the denunciation of crime in South Africa – Ann Skelton   
The antinomies of restorative justice – Raymond Koen
Interest / Benefit to
The book is intended for a wide variety of constituencies, including academics, government, civil society and grass-roots organisations, in South Africa, the African continent and the international community.