During the 1990s restorative justice emerged as an international movement for criminal justice reform, and a number of countries adopted policies encouraging or requiring the use of restorative justice practices as an alternative or in addition to adversarial court proceedings. By 2001, almost every state in the US had begun to experiment with restorative justice practices. This book, based on a large-scale research project funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an overview of the restorative justice conferencing programs currently in...
During the 1990s restorative justice emerged as an international movement for criminal justice reform, and a number of countries adopted policies enco...