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History of Restorative Justice

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In the final decades of the twentieth century, an approach to criminal justice, called restorative justice, emerged in response to concerns about offender recidivism, corrections costs, and crime victims’ rights, along with encouraging outcomes in the use of victim-offender dialogue and restitution. Rather than defining criminal justice in terms of prosecution and punishment only, restorative justice focused on identifying and repairing the harms caused by criminal acts, holding offenders accountable for making things right with those harmed, and empowering victims and communities to participate in the response. In addition, restorative justice considered the proper roles and responsibilities of both government and communities for a just society.

Roots of Restorative Justice

Much modern legal structure and popular thinking about criminal justice views crime as if the government and its law are the injured parties. Violation of a government-imposed law calls forth a series of...

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  1. Karen Heetderks Strong
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Strong, K.H. (2014). History of Restorative Justice. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_472

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