Web resource:	http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/PDF%20files/Newsletter_14.pdf
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Restorative justice and family violence [book review]
Other Titles:	Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse newsletter
Authors:	Craven, Zoe
Keywords:	Legal issues;Criminal justice responses;Indigenous issues;Restorative justice
Year:	2003
Publisher:	Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse, UNSW
Citation:	(14), March 2003
Notes:	‘Restorative justice and family violence’ is a collection of 12 essays contributed by authors from diverse professional and academic backgrounds, each of whom examines the potential for restorative justice to deal with intra-familial conflict. Craven summarises each author’s contribution with a look at its main points and a comparison to the other essays. The introductory essay by Heather Strang and John Braithwaite provides an overview to the rest of the book. Kay Pranis gives an outline of the current debate about the applicability of restorative justice models to the area of domestic and family violence. She is joined in her view that specific guidelines are needed by Kathleen Daly whose perspective is from the area of sexual assault and by Allison Morris who presents the New Zealand situation as it impacts on children. The chapter by Julie Stubbs contains an in-depth analysis of the underlying principles of restorative justice, while the chapters by Joan Pennel and Gale Burford and by Gordon Bazemore and Twila Hugley Earle discuss modes of implementation of the restorative justice models. Donna Coker emphasises the need for involvement of the State in resolving the public/ private dichotomy. The essays by Larissa Behrendt, Harry Blagg and Loretta Kelly each deal with the area of conflict between Indigenous values and the dominant legal system. Ruth Busch ends the book with a criticism of the use of restorative justice methods in domestic and family violence situations and the proposition that there be further development and evaluation of criminal justice responses in preference to inappropriate application of restorative justice practices.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16689
ISSN:	1443-7236
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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