Restorative Justice

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.My research interests include gender and the police, violence and integrity and ethics in the criminal justice system. I’m also interested in ethnographic research methods, danger, fear and situations where privileged access leads to dilemmas for researchers. In the past I have published articles on police informers and the way they are regulated and the effect of this upon rights and justice. More recently I’ve completed a book about research methods in criminology. My other recent research projects have included studying women bouncers and violence in the context of social control of the night time economy (ESRC Grant reference: RES-000-23-0384-A). This project was called Women on the Door: Female Bouncers in the New Night-time Economy carried out with Professor Dick Hobbs.

• IntroductionTheorizing Restorative Justice - Eugene McLaughlin et alPART ONE: FOUNDING PROPOSITIONSCrimes as Property - N ChristieMoving into a New Millennium - K HarrisToward a Feminist Vision of JusticeReforming Justice - J Tauri and A MorrisThe Potential of Maori ProcessesFundamental Concepts of Restorative Justice - H Zehr and H MikaRestorative Justice and a Better Future - J BraithwaitePART TWO: CORE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICESRestorative Family Group Conferences - M Umbreit and H ZehrDiffering Models and Guidelines for PracticeConferences, Circles, Boards and Mediations - G Bazemore and C T GriffithsThe New Wave of Community Justice Decision MakingRestorative Justice Cautioning in Aylesbury - From Degrading to Reintegrative Shaming Ceremonies? - R Young and B GouldRestorative Justice and Family Group Conferences in England - J Dignan and P MarshCurrent State and Future ProspectsWomen Offenders and the Challenge of Restorative Justice - C Adler YoungRevisioning Men′s Violence against Female Partners - A Morris and L GelsthorpeJustice or Sweet Charity? Some Explorations of Shaming and Incapacitating - M Levi SuitePART THREE: AN INCOMPLETE PROJECT?Restorative Justice and Social Justice - J BraithwaiteIs Restorative Justice the Way Forward for Criminal Justice? - A AshworthCritical Thinking about Restorative Justice - C CuneenRestorative Justice - K DalyThe Real StoryCommunity Justice - A Crawford and T ClearTransforming Communities through Restorative Justice

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