Restorative Justice in Practice: Evaluating What Works for Victims and Offenders

Restorative justice has made significant progress in recent years and now plays an increasingly important role in the criminal justice systems of a number of countries in different parts of the world. In many cases, however, successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses have not been evaluated sufficiently systematically and comprehensively, and it has been difficult to gain an accurate picture of its implementation and the lessons to be drawn from this. This book aims to address this need, analysing the results of the implementation of three restorative justice schemes in England and Wales in the largest and most complete trial of restorative justice with adult offenders worldwide. It aims to bring out the practicalities of setting up and running restorative justice schemes in connection with restorative justice, the costs of doing so and the key professional and ethical issues involved.