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These books have been reviewed on Restorative Justice Online.
- Resource Review: A Restorative Story: Mary Finds Some Money
- A Restorative Story: Mary Finds Some Money is a training kit designed to teach children from ages four to eleven about restorative practice.
- Book Review: Restorative Justice, Self-Interest and Responsible Citizenship
- Martin Wright reviews Lode Walgrave's book on the theoretical and ‘socio-ethical’ underpinnings of restorative justice.
- Book Review: Restorative justice: ideals and realities
- Restorative values offer a high standard for practice that can be lost in the everyday running of a programme and unavoidable interface with the criminal justice system. Restorative Justice: ideals and realities, reviewed by Martin Wright, explores this complexity of practice.
- Book Review: Changing paradigms: punishment and restorative discipline
- This book, reviewed by Martin Wright, explores traditional justifications for punishment in criminal justice, the family and education. He argues that restorative justice offers significant advantages.
- Book Review: Evil and the Justice of God
- The book Evil and the Justice of God invites Christians and others to take another look at how we define and respond to evil. This article is an excerpt of a longer review written by Scott Harris. A link to the full review is included.
- Book Review: The Little Book of Dialogue for Difficult Subjects
- The Little Book of Dialogue for Difficult Subjects offers practical advice for developing and facilitating dialogues in a variety of settings.
- Book Review: Justice as a Basic Human Need
- This compilation of interdisciplinary essays discusses the concept of “justice” as a basic need in terms of Maslow’s Theory of Human Motivation.
- Book Review: Restorative justice: how it works.
- In Restorative Justice: How it Works, Marian Liebmann describes the wide range of uses of restorative justice theory and practice. Martin Wright reviews the book.
- Book Review: Women and the Criminal Justice System, 2nd ed.
- Women and the Criminal Justice System explores the unique experiences of women as offenders, victims and justice professionals. It ties together the ideas of restorative justice and the empowerment approach.
- Book Review: The meaning and nature of punishment
- Martin Wright reviews David Shichor’s discussion of the arguments surrounding punishment.
- Book Review: Breaking Spears & Mending Hearts: Peacemakers & Restorative Justice in Bougainville
- Breaking Spears & Mending Hearts tells the story of civil war violence in the Melanesian island of Bougainville and the rediscovery of peacemaking mechanisms used to overcome such violence.
- Book Review: Charting progress, mapping the future: restorative justice in South Africa.
- This book, reviewed by Martin Wright, discusses the history and present status of restorative justice in South Africa.
- Book Review: Juvenile Justice: An Introduction (fifth edition)
- This book provides an overview of juvenile justice in the United States, including a chapter on the impact of the restorative justice movement.
- Book Review: Criminal Punishment and Restorative Justice.
- In criminal justice debates, punishment is often defended as an end in itself. Eric Assur reviews a book that explores the need to move beyond punishment to a restorative focus.
- Harris, Scott. Book Review: Evil and the Justice of God
- The book Evil and the Justice of God invites Christians and others to take another look at how we define and respond to evil. This article is an excerpt of a longer review written by Scott Harris. A link to the full review is included.
- Wright, Martin. Book Review: Juvenile Justice Reform and Restorative Justice: Building Theory and Policy From Practice.
- How much restorative justice is being done, how well is it done, and where is it leading? Like anything worth doing it can be done well or badly, and Bazemore and Schiff start by taking stock of the current situation in America. Martin Wright reviews their recent book.
- Book Review: Handbook of Restorative Justice
- The international restorative justice movement continues expanding in scope of practice and scholarship making it almost impossible to keep up with the existing literature. Chris Marshall reviews this collection of new essays covering virtually every aspect of the worldwide phenomenon of restorative justice.
- Book Review: Victims of crime and community justice
- In his recent book, Brian Williams gives an account of the current state of assistance to victims in the United Kingdom, with comparisons to developments abroad. The book also includes a helpful discussion of the development of victim assistance over the past three decades. Here is Martin Wright's review of the book.
- Book Review: New directions in restorative justice: issues, practice, evaluation.
- As the restorative justice movement ages, it continues to face issues of application and implementation. Martin Wright reviews this collection of essays addressing restorative justice and youth, aboriginal justice, and victims.
- Book Review: Understanding Victims and Restorative Justice
- Although restorative justice claims to include all those affected by wrongdoing in responding to crime, it has been criticized as being too offender focused. In this book, restorative justice is viewed through a victim-focused lens.
