Synopses & Reviews
This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice principles as a way of intervening with offenders in both institutional and community-based settings. Philosophical and spiritual contexts for peacemaking are presented that form a foundation for understanding the potential for peacemaking in criminological thought, the criminal justice system, and society in general.
- This book is about personal and institutional transformation. It is designed to view peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that, while grounded in ancient philosophical and spiritual traditions, is expressed in many different shapes and forms.
- Boxed inserts and discussion questions support the text.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I: Understanding Peacemaking
2. Compassionate Corrections: Contributions of Ancient Wisdom Traditions
3. Peacemaking Criminology
Part II: Doing Peacemaking
4. Personal Transformation
5. Transforming Institutions
6. Letters from Prison
7. Prison Stories
8. Toward Restorative and Community Justice
9. Epilogue