Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation

by John Braithwaite

Book Overview

Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well designed restorative justice processes will restore victims, offenders, and communities better than existing criminal justice practices. Counterintuitively, he also shows that a restorative justice system may deter, incapacitate, and rehabilitate more effectively than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195158393
• ISBN13: 9780195158397
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"