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Conferencing and Restorative Justice

Conferencing and Restorative Justice International Practices and Perspectives

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199655038
  • Published In: November 2012
  • Format: Hardback , 272 pages
  • Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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  • The first book to offer a comprehensive picture about this restorative justice practice
  • Includes contributions from leading international figures in restorative justice, including both practitioners and academics
  • Looks at the current condition of conferencing, particularly internationally, and analyses the processes and outcomes
  • Addresses the difficulties of conferencing, such as in sexual assault cases, as well as the different applications outside of the criminal justice system

Conferencing and Restorative Justice: International Practices and Perspectives offers an analysis of conferencing practices around the world, examining the range of approaches to different types of crimes and offender age groups, and assessing their outcomes. 

First developed in New Zealand and Australia in the 1990s, conferencing is a restorative justice practice which has since spread to a number of other countries as an effective tool in crime reduction. By encouraging the offender, the victim(s) and family members, and a facilitator to meet and discuss the crime and its consequences, and then to find a just and acceptable outcome for all, those involved hope to repair the harm inflicted upon the victim, the community and society in general. In this book, the editors have drawn together some of the leading figures in the restorative justice community to look at the current condition of such practices, particularly internationally, and to analyse the processes and outcomes of conferencing, compared with the European-favoured, victim-offender mediation.

With fourteen chapters featuring a mix of contributors, including both practitioners and academics, the book begins with a general and thematic overview of what conferencing is and how it is developing theoretically and in practice. This discussion then moves on to some of the original models of conferencing, such as in New Zealand and Australia, and examines some of the challenges (sexual assault cases) and the newer developments found in conferencing in Latin-America. The final section of the book consists of European perspectives on conferencing, exploring how some countries have developed conferencing more extensively (such as into the juvenile justice system), others are still in a starting-phase, whilst some have move conferencing outside of the justice system entirely. Impeccably researched and thoughtfully presented, Conferencing and Restorative Justicewill be of interest to anyone involved in restorative justice practices, criminal justice and public policy.

Readership: Academics in the fields of criminal justice, restorative justice, political science and public policy scholars. Also of interest to police officers, restorative and criminal justice practitioners and policy makers.

1: Inge Vanfraechem and Estelle Zinsstag: Conferencing: Setting the scene
Part 1: Conferencing: Broadening the scope of restorative justice
2: Estelle Zinsstag: Conferencing: A developing restorative justice practice
3: Lode Walgrave: The need for clarity about restorative justice conferences
4: Joanna Shapland: Comparing conferencing and mediation: Some evaluation results internationally
5: Tim Chapman: 'That's how the light gets in': Facilitating restorative conferences
6: Heather Strang: Conferencing and victims
Part 2: Conferencing: Inception, challenges, and newer developments
7: Ashley Shearar and Gabrielle Maxwell: Revolution, decline, and renewal: Restorative youth justice in New Zealand
8: Kathleen Daly: Conferences and gendered violence: Practices, politics, and evidence
9: Joan Pennell and Elizabeth Beck: Decentralization and privatization: The promise and challenges of restorative justice in the United States
10: Daniela Bolivar, Leoberto Brancher, Ivan Navarro, and Manyori Vega: Conferencing in South America as an exercise of democracy? An exploration of the 'vertical' role of restorative justice
Part 3: Conferencing: European perspectives
11: Estelle Zinsstag and Tim Chapman: Conferencing in Northern Ireland: Implementing restorative justice at the core of the criminal justice system
12: Inge Vanfraechem, Katrien Lauwaert, and Melanie Decocq: Conferencing at the crossroads between rehabilitation and restorative justice
13: Anna Eriksson: Restorative justice in the welfare state: Conferencing in the Nordic countries
14: Rob Van Pagée, Jan Van Lieshout, and Annemieke Wolthuis: Most things look better when arranged in a circle - Family Group Conferencing empowers societal developments in The Netherlands
15: Ivo Aertsen: Conferencing: Conclusions and way forward

Edited by Estelle Zinsstag, Senior Researcher, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, and Inge Vanfraechem, Senior Researcher, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

Estelle Zinsstag is a senior researcher working on the European FP7 research project ALTERNATIVE. She has joined the Leuven Institute of Criminology in 2008 first as an affiliate, and then as a project officer for the European Forum for Restorative Justice to lead a 2 year research project funded by the European Commission and entitled 'Conferencing: a way forward for restorative justice in Europe', which ended in 2011. She publishes in the areas of sexual violence, transitional justice and restorative justice.

Inge Vanfraechem is project manager at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (KU Leuven, Belgium) of the European FP7 project ALTERNATIVE, which concerns security and restorative justice in intercultural settings. Previously, she has worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Criminal Sciences and Criminology (Ministry of Justice, Belgium) on the evaluation of national victim policy, and as a project coordinator with the European Forum for Restorative Justice on Victims and restorative justice. She publishes on restorative justice and victimology.

Contributors: 
Professor Ivo Aertsen, KU Leuven Institute of Criminology, Belgium
Professor Elizabeth Beck, Director, Georgia State University School of Social Work Center for Community Social Work
Daniela Bolivar, Research Coordinator, European Forum for Restorative Justice, Leuven, Belgium
Leoberto Narciso Brancher, District Judge and Professor, Escola Superior da Magistratura do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Tim Chapman, Lecturer on Masters in Restorative Practices, University of Ulster 
Kathleen Daly, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University , Brisbane
Mélanie Decocq, Teaching Assistant and Researcher, School of Criminology, University of Liège, Belgium
Anna Eriksson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Katrien Lauwaert, Lecturer, School of Criminology, University of Liège, Belgium 
Dr Gabrielle Maxwell, Senior Associate, Institute of Policy Studies and former Director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 
Ivan Navarro Papic, Lawyer for the Mediation Unit, Ministry of Justice, Chile. 
Joan Pennell, Professor of Social Work and Director, Center for Family and Community Engagement, North Carolina State University, USA
Joanna Shapland, Professor of Criminal Justice and Head of the School of Law, University of Sheffield, UK. 
Ashley Shearar, PhD student, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 
Heather Strang, Director, Centre for Restorative Justice, Australian National University, and Deputy Director, Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK 
Dr Inge Vanfraechem, Researcher, KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Institute of Criminology, Belgium
Jan van Lieshout, former Editor of Social Work Magazine, the Netherlands 
Rob van Pagée, Social Worker and governing Board Member, Eigen Kracht Centrale, the Netherlands. 
Manyori Vega Gutiérrez, Counsellor to Prosecutor's Office for juvenile restorative justice practices, Lima, Perú
Lode Walgrave, Emeritus Professor in Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium
Annemieke Wolthuis, Senior Researcher, Verwey-Jonker Institute, the Netherlands. 
Estelle Zinsstag, Senior Researcher, KU Leuven Institute of Criminology, Belgium.

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