Offenders no more : an interdisciplinary restorative justice dialogue / Theo Gavrielides, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gavrielides, Theo, editor.

Series:

Criminal justice, law enforcement and corrections.

Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement and Corrections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restorative justice.

Victims of crimes--Legal status, laws, etc.

Victims of crimes.

Reconciliation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offender rehabilitation theory and practice have traditionally focused on curing offenders of their deviant tendencies by changing their habits, opportunities, personality and outlook on life. Consequently, a number of interventions have been developed within the criminal justice system that are said to be involved in helping offenders. Success is measured by recidivism rates. To this end, rehabilitation has become an important aim of sentencing, whether it be in the form of incarceration, community or monetary penalties. Recently, the foundations of rehabilitation theory and practice have been shaken. Rehabilitation is now seen by many as a threat to offenders' rights and humanitarian principles. Some have even argued that rehabilitation practices are harmful to offenders' chances of correction. Alongside these concerns, the entire paradigm on which our modern criminal justice systems are based has also been questioned. Alternative visions of justice have been moved out of the shadows in the hope that more effective processes are developed for safer and more just societies. One of these visions is encapsulated in restorative justice, which is based on the foundation of promoting human goods in the pursuit of restoration of harm and the correction of deviant behaviour. Restorative justice practices, such as mediation, circles and conferencing bring to the fore states of affairs, activities and experiences that are strongly associated with well-being and higher level of personal satisfaction and social functioning. They aim to create empathy and remorse, and through constructive and honest dialogue create a sense of responsibility in the offender and a feeling of empowerment and justice in the victim. Within this framework, the labels of victim and offender collapse. A new approach to crime reduction and offender rehabilitation is thus needed. This ground-breaking, edited volume aims to respond to this call by bringing together inter-disciplinary thinking from criminology, affect-script psychology, sociology, political sciences and human rights, psychology and positive psychology, design and arts and social work. The inter-disciplinary dialogue that this book promotes aims to advance the restorative justice field, its tools, practices and evaluation techniques by bringing rehabilitation theory into the restorative justice debate, and vice versa.Target Audience:Practitioners and policy makers in criminal justice, senior-level capstone courses and upper-level seminars that review and expand on key areas of study in restorative justice, criminology, social sciences, social theory, psychology and positive psychology, law, neuroscience, human rights, criminal justice, and political science departments. The book is also intended for researchers and human rights campaigners internationally.

Contents:

THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF BEING AN OFFENDER AND A VICTIM: THE LONG ROAD TO RECOVERYA NEW LIFE ; PART I: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE BETWEEN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND OFFENDER REHABILITATION ; Chapter 2 A HUMAN RIGHTS VISION OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: MOVING BEYOND LABELS ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION; THE HISTORY OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ; The Acephalous Societies-500 AD ; The Middle Ages 500-1350 and 1350-1500 AD ; From 1500-1970s AD ; The 1970s: A New Criminal Justice Paradigm ; THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS ; UNIVERSAL AND SHARED HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE VALUES

MOVING BEYOND LABELS IN OFFENDER REHABILITATION REFERENCES ; Chapter 3 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND THE BLURRING BETWEEN REPARATION AND REHABILITATION ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; THE MANY RS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ; THE CASE OF YOUTH OFFENDER PANELS IN ENGLAND AND WALES ; THE BLURRING BETWEEN REPARATION AND REHABILITATION ; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES ; Chapter 4 HOW RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CAN ENABLE AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESPONSE TO THE PERCEIVED NEEDS OF VICTIMS AND CHILDREN WHO OFFEND ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODOLOGY ; CASTING AN ECOLOGICAL LENS ON THE IMPACT OF CRIME IN THE COMMUNITY

4. RESTORATIVE PROCESSES - FROM RJ TO CO-DESIGN WITH INMATESCONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 6 EMPATHY AND EMOTIONAL AWARENESS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS ; Empathy; Emotional Awareness; Proposed Interrelations between Empathy and Emotional Awareness ; INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE ; EMPATHY AND EMOTIONAL AWARENESS IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ; FINDINGS FROM A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY ; METHODOLOGY ; Participants ; Measures ; Procedure ; Statistical Analysis ; RESULTS ; DISCUSSION OF THE EMPIRICAL DATA ; Methodological Implications

CONCLUSION

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63483-700-2