Understanding restorative justice : how empathy can close the gap created by crime /
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| Author / Creator: | Wallis, Pete, author. |
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| Imprint: | Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press, 2014. |
| Description: | xv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10340946 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- List of cartoons
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Who is this book for?
- Introduction
- What is restorative justice?
- Natural justice
- Why the fascination with restorative justice?
- Why do people choose restorative justice?
- A magnetic pull
- The importance of empathy
- To get to the heart
- A note on terminology
- Part 1. Empathy Level Zero: hurting
- 1. Crime and unhappiness
- Crime and the rule of law
- Why do people commit crime?
- the link between empathy and offending
- 2. The gap caused by crime
- The starting point for the person responsible
- The starting point for the person harmed
- Two categories of crime
- Both are likely to start at the bottom of the empathy scale
- If no one is caught
- The gap
- Part 2. Empathy Level One: seeing
- 3. Entering the criminal justice system
- Police investigation
- Pure restorative justice
- 'On-the-spot' restorative justice
- Pre-court restorative justice
- A more balanced system? The notion of 'parallel justice'
- 4. Into the criminal courts
- Not guilty: the end of the road for restorative justice
- Crime and punishment
- Retributive versus restorative
- How could the criminal justice system be more restorative?
- Part 3. Empathy Level Two: voicing
- 5. Unripe restorative justice
- Pacing and timing
- Positional stalemate
- Unripe restorative justice: the danger area when it is too
- early for an apology or for forgiveness
- A hollow apology
- Just in it to be heard: can restorative justice work when people have little or no empathy?
- Venting
- 6. Restorative enquiry
- The initial approach
- Restorative enquiry
- 7. The keys and blocks to restorative justice
- Taking responsibility
- From responsibility to empathy
- 'What have I done?' The value of victim empathy courses
- What about people with zero empathy?
- Keys for the person responsible
- 8. Choice, encouragement or coercion?
- A continuum of voluntariness
- What's in it for me?
- They should be genuine
- Choice and control for those harmed
- Keys for the person harmed
- The need to feel heard
- Blocks for the person harmed
- The end of the journey
- Part 4. Empathy Level Three: hearing
- 9. Indirect restorative justice
- Care with the ownership of information
- Indirect communication
- Why so little restorative justice?
- A partnership of the willing
- 10. The restorative meeting
- The start of the restorative meeting
- Hearing the story of the person responsible
- Hearing the story of the person harmed
- The truth will out
- The role of others
- Transition
- Exploring needs
- Part 5. Empathy Level Four: helping
- 11. 'Doing sorry'
- Moving forward
- Negotiating outcomes
- Endings
- The practitioner's role
- 12. Does it always go so well?
- Difficult cases where the ice won't melt
- Don't give up
- Part 6. Empathy Level Five: healing
- 13. Into the heart of restorative justice
- Shame, guilt and empathy
- Responsibility and accountability
- Stuckness and movement
- Meaning
- Forgiveness
- Healing
- Reintegration
- Restoration
- Closure
- Afterwards
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Further information and resources
- Index
