Restorative justice : theories and practices of moral imagination / Amy Levad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levad, Amy, 1979-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restorative justice.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Levad explores the "moral imagination" of restorative justice as an alternative framework for understanding and responding to crime, drawing together philosophical virtue ethics inspired by Aristotle's discussion of equity as the highest form of justice-a form of justice that requires vivid and expansive moral imagining-and an ethnography of restorative justice programs. Levad maintains that because participants in restorative justice practices become adept at vivid and expansive moral imagining, they are better able to realize justice and equity in response to particular cases. She concludes

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A Crisis of Justice; CHAPTER 2 Justice as Equity and Moral Imagining; CHAPTER 3 Restorative Moral Imagination; CHAPTER 4 Moral Imagining in Restorative Justice Practices; CHAPTER 5 The Moral Imagination of Restorative Justice; APPENDIX Methodology, Interview Schedules, and Analysis; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326968

1593326963

OCLC:

818818934