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Critical Issues in Crime and Justice: Thought, Policy, and Practice provides an incisive overview of issues and perspectives in criminal justice and criminology designed to expand upon key areas of study. With contributed essays from leading scholars in the field, the Third Edition illustrates the breadth of research, policy, and practice implications in areas such as crime theory, law enforcement, jurisprudence, corrections, and criminal justice organization and management. New to this edition are chapters on wrongful convictions, human trafficking, and mental illness and criminal justice, three critical issues facing contemporary policing, courts, and corrections. The coverage of concepts, insights, voices, and perspectives will challenge criminal justice and criminology students to synthesize what they have learned, question standard interpretations, and begin to create new directions and visions for their future careers as professionals in the field.
Restorative Justice in Theory
Restorative Justice in Theory
When we have been harmed by another, we typically seek justice. But what is justice? According to the restorative justice perspective, justice is repair of harms, with the offender as the main agent of repair. The harms requiring repair are considered both concretely and broadly. For example, restorative justice requires attention to the medical bills that an assault victim might have accumulated. But the victim’s fears and self-doubt must also be addressed. Harm to relationships is taken especially seriously. Restorative justice stresses the victim’s and the offender’s relationships with each other and with other members of their communities. And so, in the restorative justice perspective, ...
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