Restorative Justice ─ How It Works

Consultant and practitioner Liebman takes a comprehensive approach to issues ranging from bullying in schools to community reconciliation after war. Basing her observations on experience, she focuses on the practical and uses a number of case studies to describe what restorative justice is actually intended to do, and clearly defines how restorative justice works in and out of criminal justice. She gives a brief history and reviews UK legislation, then describes restorative approaches involving victims and offenders separately or together, with children and schools, with juvenile and adult offenders, in prisons, and in situations such as large-scale violence, domestic violence and sexual abuse. She addresses major issues, such as what to do when restorative justice does not work, provides a selection of research, and describes arts approaches to restorative justice. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Marian Liebmann has worked in education, art therapy, victim support and probation, and for seven years was director and projects adviser of Mediation UK. She has written and edited nine books in the fields of art therapy, mediation and conflict resolution, including Mediation in Context, Arts Approaches to Conflict, and Art Therapy with Offenders, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She currently divides her time between freelance restorative justice, mediation training and consultancy, art therapy and writing.