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Operationalising the notion of a restorative school community : a case study in a socio-economically deprived area (2020)
Thesis
Rhodes, R. Operationalising the notion of a restorative school community : a case study in a socio-economically deprived area. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223257

In recent years, schools have increasingly begun to opt for an alternative to traditional school punishments: restorative practices. As the practices developed, proponents began to posit that to unlock the true potential of restorative approaches, co... Read More about Operationalising the notion of a restorative school community : a case study in a socio-economically deprived area.

Building Bridges: Prisoners, Crime Victims and Restorative Justice (2019)
Book
Brennan, I., & Johnston, G. (2019). Building Bridges: Prisoners, Crime Victims and Restorative Justice. Eleven International Publishing

Across Europe, restorative justice has gained acceptance as a way of resolving disputes and mitigating the harm of crime in the community. Practitioners have also begun to coordinate restorative meetings in prisons in an effort to reduce the harms of... Read More about Building Bridges: Prisoners, Crime Victims and Restorative Justice.

Restorative justice and the therapeutic tradition: Looking into the future (2018)
Book Chapter
Johnstone, G. (2018). Restorative justice and the therapeutic tradition: Looking into the future. In Routledge International Handbook of Restorative Justice (395-408). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613512

If asked to explain the essence of restorative justice in one or two sentences, many advocates and practitioners might employ Nils Christie’s formula about the state and its actors stealing conflicts which belong to crime victims and offenders and ex... Read More about Restorative justice and the therapeutic tradition: Looking into the future.

Restorative justice for victims: inherent limits? (2017)
Journal Article
Johnstone, G. (2017). Restorative justice for victims: inherent limits?. Restorative justice, 5(3), 382-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/20504721.2017.1390999

Campaigners for restorative justice suggest that we should deal with criminal behaviour by encouraging those responsible to repair the harm they have caused and that those who cause and suffer harm should be at the centre of deliberation and decision... Read More about Restorative justice for victims: inherent limits?.

Reshaping the field: building restorative capital (2014)
Journal Article
Green, S., Johnstone, G., & Lambert, C. (2014). Reshaping the field: building restorative capital. Restorative justice, 2(1), 43-63. https://doi.org/10.5235/20504721.2.1.43

Restorative justice is best known as an alternative approach for dealing with crime and wrongdoing. Yet as the restorative movement has grown it is increasingly being deployed in different arenas. Based on a two-year study funded by the UK National L... Read More about Reshaping the field: building restorative capital.

What harm, whose justice: excavating the restorative movement (2013)
Journal Article
Green, S., Johnstone, G., & Lambert, C. (2013). What harm, whose justice: excavating the restorative movement. Contemporary Justice Review, 16(4), 445-460. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2013.857071

The city of Hull in the northeast of England gave itself the ambitious task of becoming the world's first restorative city. The aim of this strategy was to create a more socially and emotionally confident youth population which in turn would encourag... Read More about What harm, whose justice: excavating the restorative movement.

Building restorative relationships for the workplace (2011)
Report
Lambert, C., Johnstone, G., Green, S., & Shipley, R. (2011). Building restorative relationships for the workplace

A 2011 major piece of research into building restorative workplaces by the Goodwin Development Trust found that implementing restorative justice helped managers to share the pressure of decision-making, hold their team more accountable and develop be... Read More about Building restorative relationships for the workplace.

The agendas of the restorative justice movement (2008)
Book Chapter
Johnstone, G. (2008). The agendas of the restorative justice movement. In Restorative Justice: from Theory to Practice; Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance (59-79). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1521-6136%2808%2900403-X

This chapter examines how the aspirations of the restorative justice movement are broader than tends to be acknowledged in debates about the virtues and vices of restorative justice. It suggests that, along with trying to change the social response t... Read More about The agendas of the restorative justice movement.