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Understanding Restorative Justice: How Empathy Can Close the Gap Created by Crime
Pete Wallis
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Description for Understanding Restorative Justice: How Empathy Can Close the Gap Created by Crime
Paperback. This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. Using case studies, the book offers a fresh angle on a topic that is of growing interest both in the UK and internationally. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 348.
This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it separates people, creating a ‘gap’. This can only be reduced or closed through information and insight about the other person, which have the potential to elicit empathy and compassion from both sides. The book explores this extraordinary journey from harm to healing using the structure of a timeline: from an offence, through the criminal justice process and into the heart ... Read more
This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it separates people, creating a ‘gap’. This can only be reduced or closed through information and insight about the other person, which have the potential to elicit empathy and compassion from both sides. The book explores this extraordinary journey from harm to healing using the structure of a timeline: from an offence, through the criminal justice process and into the heart ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447317425
SKU
V9781447317425
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Pete Wallis
Pete Wallis is the senior practitioner in restorative justice for Oxfordshire Youth Offending Service. He has facilitated hundreds of restorative meetings and written or co-authored several books and articles on the subject. In 2011 he set up a charity to support young crime victims, and he is a consultant for the new Restorative Services Quality Mark.
Reviews for Understanding Restorative Justice: How Empathy Can Close the Gap Created by Crime
"A compelling, honest and moving book which will make a huge contribution to the field." Belinda Hopkins, Transforming Conflict "A well-researched, original and welcome contribution to the growing literature on restorative justice, focusing on the development of empathy to gradually reveal the layers of the restorative process." Marian Liebmann, OBE, Independent Restorative Justice Trainer and Consultant