Conferencing and Restorative Justice International Practices and Perspectives

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.