Criminal Punishment and Restorative Justice : Past, Present and Future Perspectives

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-15
Publisher(s): Waterside Pr
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Summary

Provides an international perspective as to the potential of restorative justice to * Deliver better ways of dealing with offenders and victims * Reduce the use of custody by challenging offenders to take responsibility for their offences and to make reparation for their wrong-doing * Consign to history the fallacies and false horizons of traditional thinking in favour of a principled, more purposeful use of sanctions Criminal Punishment and Restorative Justice pulls no punches in its criticism of traditional approaches and their failure to achieve crime prevention.

Table of Contents

Crime and criminology : general considerationsp. 19
The classical debatep. 26
Retribution and desert : vengeance or justice?p. 41
Deterrence : reality, illusion or deception?p. 53
Reform and rehabilitation : one proposition or two?p. 66
Penology for modern times : does restorative justice provide a synthesis of punishment theories?p. 80
Criminal punishment : is there an inclusive theory?p. 97
New horizons : international perspectives on restorative justicep. 108
Restorative justice : a New Zealand perspectivep. 119
The seductiveness of punishment and the case for restorative justice : the Netherlandsp. 135
Where there's a will there's a way : a Canadian perspective on restorative justicep. 149
Conclusions : where from here?p. 163
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