For the first time, the four most popular restorative justice books in the Justice & Peacebuilding series-The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, and The Little Book of Circle Processes-are available in one affordable volume.
Restorative justice, with its emphasis on identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime, is a worldwide movement of growing influence that is helping victims and communities heal while holding criminals accountable for their actions. This is not a soft-on-crime, feel-good philosophy, but rather a concrete effort to bring justice and healing to everyone involved in a crime. Circle processes draw from the Native American tradition of gathering in a circle to solve problems as a community. Peacemaking circles are used in neighborhoods, in schools, in the workplace, and in social services to support victims of all kinds, resolve behavior problems, and create positive climates.
Each book is written by a scholar at the forefront of these movements, making this important reading for classrooms, community leaders, and anyone involved with conflict resolution.
For the first time, the four most popular restorative justice books in the Justice & Peacebuilding series-The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, and The Little Book of Circle Processes-are available in one affordable volume.
Restorative justice, with its emphasis on identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime, is a worldwide movement of growing influence that is helping victims and communities heal while holding criminals accountable for their actions. This is not a soft-on-crime, feel-good philosophy, but rather a concrete effort to bring justice and healing to everyone involved in a crime. Circle processes draw from the Native American tradition of gathering in a circle to solve problems as a community. Peacemaking circles are used in neighborhoods, in schools, in the workplace, and in social services to support victims of all kinds, resolve behavior problems, and create positive climates.
Each book is written by a scholar at the forefront of these movements, making this important reading for classrooms, community leaders, and anyone involved with conflict resolution.
Howard Zehr directed the first victim offender
conferencing program in the US and is one of the original
developers of restorative justice as a concept. Zehr is the
Distinguished Professor of Restorative Justice and the codirector
of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite
University. He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Allan MacRae is the manager of coordinators for the southern
region of New Zealand, overseeing Family Group Conferences for both
youth justice and care and protection. After receiving the National
Supreme Award for Innovation, Allan developed a program in
Wellington, which emerged as a leading model of youth justice. He
lives in New Zealand.
Kay Pranis served as the restorative justice planner for the
Minnesota Department of Corrections for nine years. Pranis has
conducted circle trainings in a diverse range of communities-from
schools to prisons to workplaces to churches, and from rural towns
in Minnesota to Chicago's South Side to Montgomery, Alabama. She
lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz is the director of the Mennonite
Central Committee's (MCC) office on crime and justice. Lorraine has
worked in the victim offender field since 1984 when she began
working in Elkhart, Indiana, the site of the first Victim Offender
Reconciliation Program (VORP) in the United States. Lorraine
currently serves on the board of the local victim offender program
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she lives.
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