Leading edge information and ideas from two of the UK's most respected practitioners and authorties. A handbook for people who want to make a difference when working with prisoners. It suggests the tools for this and offers guidance - and is wholly up to speed with what is happening in UK prisons. * Essential reading for every RJ practitioner and student * One of the most important penal reform books for years - Part of a major initiative across UK prisons

Foreword

v

Erwin James

1 Introduction and Background

9

(18)

Defining restorative justice

9

(2)

Varieties of restorative practices

11

(1)

Empowerment and particularity

12

(2)

What is, and is not, restorative justice?

14

(4)

Restorative justice and criminal justice in the UK

18

(4)

Restorative justice and prisons

22

(3)

Conclusion

25

(2)

2 Restorative Values

27

(11)

The core values of restorative justice

27

(6)

Programme integrity

33

(1)

Pressure points in the definition

34

(2)

Paradigm shift or evolution?

36

(2)

3 Organizational Culture

38

(18)

Introducing restorative culture into prisons

38

(1)

Organizational culture

39

(2)

The cultural web of prisons

41

(4)

Restorative influences on the cultural web

45

(4)

A restorative system of building social order

49

(7)

4 Resistance to Change

56

(24)

Conflicting paradigms

56

(4)

What matters in prison

60

(2)

Values, restorative justice and conflict

62

(3)

Social order in prison

65

(3)

Values inherent in Prison Service policies

68

(3)

Cultural resistance within the police

71

(2)

A model for the restorative prison

73

(7)

5 What a Restorative Justice Prison Would

Look Like

80

(1)

The foundations of a restorative prison

80

(3)

Operational applications of restorative justice

83

(2)

Pre-release, anti-bullying and complaints

85

(11)

Conclusion

96

(2)

6 The Restorative Sentence

98

(18)

Responsibility in sentencing

98

(1)

The responsible sentence

98

(3)

Some further thoughts

101

(2)

Prisons, restoring offenders and the harms of social exclusion

103

(4)

National Action Plan to Reduce Re-offending

107

(6)

The role of the prison officer

113

(1)

Promoting social re-inclusion

114

(1)

Comments on the Action Plan

115

(1)

7 Conclusion

116

(5)

Guidance for criminal justice agencies

116

(2)

Experience of restorative methods in prisons

118

(2)

Next steps

120

(1)

Appendix: Two Case Studies

121

(2)

Glossary of Terms

123

(2)

References

125

(4)

Index

129

(3)

List of Diagrams, Figures, Tables and Boxes

132

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