Restorative Justice and Contemporary Political Theory: Critical Encounters

Restorative justice is a growing phenomenon, as evidenced by the significant development of policy, spreading of practice, increase in public awareness and proliferation of academic research. However, there is limited theoretically informed engagement with its political nature and effects. This book is an original endeavour to stimulate the political imagination of the restorative justice movement, yet without generating one comprehensive ‘political theory of restorative justice’. Instead, it forays into different contemporary political theories and experiments with how engaging with them could both enhance the current understanding of, and inspire innovative political action through, restorative justice.