Restorative justice today : practical applications / Katherine S. van Wormer, Lorenn Walker, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- Overview: introduction to restorative justice -- Restorative justice : definition and purpose / Lorenn Walker -- Reflections from a descendant of the Minnesota restitution center (mrc) / Kay Pranis -- Preparing students of criminal justice for restorative justice practice / Rudi Kauffman and Heather Koontz -- Restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence : all in the family / David Wexler -- Prevention programs and community practice -- Restorative justice for victims without offender participation / Lorenn Walker -- A story of the emergence of restorative practice in schools in Australia and New Zealand : reflect, repair, reconnect / Margaret Thorsborne -- Restorative justice for juvenile delinquents in Hong Kong and China / Dennis S.W. Wong -- Youth justice and restorative justice in norway / Ida Hydle -- Beyond policy : conferencing on student misbehavior / Lorenn Walker -- Family group conferences in youth justice and child welfare in Vermont / Gale Burford -- Pretrial: before or after arrest-diversion programs -- Restorative and diversionary responses to youth offending in New Zealand / Gabrielle Maxwell -- Community members : vital voices to the restorative justice process / Mona Schatz -- Removing the cloak of secrecy from interpersonal violence / Anne Hayden and Katherine van Wormer -- Clergy child sexual abuse : the restorative justice option / Theo Gavrielides -- In correctional and reentry programs -- "Hate left me that day" : victim offender dialogue in Vermont / Amy Holloway and Gale Burford -- Brazil's restorative prisons / Lorenn Walker, Andrew Johnson, and Katherine van Wormer -- Huikahi restorative circles : a public health approach for reentry planning / Lorenn Walker and Rebecca Greening, J.D -- Restorative celebrations for parolee and probationer completion : the importance of ritual for reentry / Lorenn Walker -- Community restoration and reparation -- Restorative interventions for postwar nations / Carl Stauffer -- Truth and reconciliation commissions and transitional justice in restorative justice context / David Androff -- Restorative justice almost 50 years later : japanese american redress for exclusion, restriction, and incarceration / Rita Takahashi -- Speaking earth : environmental restoration and restorative justice / Fred H. Besthorn -- Appendix -- Important resources -- Bibliographies.