...In the US “restorative justice” typically refers to small-scale measures that divert alleged wrongdoers from a standard path through the criminal justice system by funneling them into alternative justice programs. These aim to repair harms caused to the victims, the wider community, and those who...

...The dynamics around contemporary public apologies can be illuminated by a comparison with the ancient Greek chorus; by inquiry into the current, halting steps toward national and international reckonings with racial injustice; and by attention to the developing practices of restorative justice...

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...Part one of this chapter provides an overview of the subject matter and the thesis of each chapter. It explains the central contention of this book, namely, that a holistic approach to restorative justice can be a theory of justice, and form concrete justice practices, only because it fosters moral...

...Chapter 1 addresses key questions this book seeks to answer: (1) What is restorative justice? And (2) how might it respond to structural forms of violence? Here I set the parameters for restorative justice interventions and alternatives that could effectively combat the violence manifest in the U.S...

...This chapter addresses criticisms raised by those who claim that restorative justice can work only at the level of healing harms related to interpersonal conflicts. These critics claim that restorative justice is not capable of addressing the structural and cultural violence that helped create...

...Chapter 12 thus takes up the question: What are the risks of close interaction with the criminal-justice system? How likely is it that restorative justice practices and initiatives will be captured and assimilated into a violent system that would protect and preserve itself through processes...

...Chapter 13 acknowledges and grapples with the depth and severity of the ways that policing and police abuse of force manifest the prison-industrial complex in Chicago communities. However, it also documents and assesses several police initiatives that are using restorative justice practices...

...Developing an account of the ways that restorative justice reflects sensibilities illuminated by categories of “everyday” or “lived religion,” I argue, makes them available as modes of critical praxis through which resistance to, and transformation of, structural injustices become possible...

...This introductory chapter discusses the concept of restorative justice—a justice that seeks full accountability, with perpetrators facing the people they victimized, and working to repair the damage they inflicted. The concept is rooted in the notion of Ubuntu, which translates generally...

.... If the abusive partner is convicted, such individualized treatment would mean seeking an appropriate sanction for his behavior. In the case of the woman subjected to abuse, she might opt to use restorative justice methods in lieu of arrest, prosecution, or civil protective orders. For battered women, restorative...

...This chapter examines the potential of a restorative justice model to prevent violence and resolve conflicts in public schools. Restorative justice is a principle-based method of responding to harmful behavior. It includes processes that seek to achieve justice by repairing harms. In the context...

... between victims and perpetrators in the aftermath of this violence, the reality of multiple truths, the complexities of reconciliation, and lessons of restorative justice....

...This chapter takes up the case study of the restorative justice practices unfolding in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. It pushes beneath the surface appearance of the present-day neighborhood to show how deep dynamics of structural and cultural violence from...

...Chapter 3 explores how practitioners at the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation in Back of the Yards conceive of and implement restorative justice practices there. The range of initiatives includes peacemaking circles, trauma-informed accompaniment, urban farming, arts and performance...

...Chapter 7 focuses on how the popular discourse of “trauma” has had a considerable effect on restorative justice. On the one hand, trauma discourse has importantly expanded practitioners’ understandings of the nature and character of the harms caused by destructive conflict and violence. At the same...

...Chapter 8 makes the case that “restorative accompaniment”—a central pillar of restorative justice as it is conceived at Precious Blood and in related restorative justice hubs across Chicago—is both coherently “spiritual” in virtue of the forms of association it promotes, and also serves as a mode...

...Chapter 9 argues that restorative justice comprises a distinctive account of justice rather than merely a process of interpersonal relational repair and healing in response to trauma or harm. It is justice in the classic sense of each person being owed, and receiving, what is due to them. I offer...

...In Chapter 10 I move forward the ethical groundwork for my case that restorative justice is, indeed, justice. Here I discuss peacemaking circles as ethical practices. Contrary to those who see peacemaking circles as glib cultural mimicking of “indigenous folkways,” or dismiss them as so-called “New...

...Chapter 14 explores in greater depth what I identify as the moral, spiritual, and “lived religion” dynamics of restorative justice. In what ways can holistic models of restorative justice ethics and practices be thought of as “religious”? Moreover, what difference do such religious dynamics make...