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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462541503321

Autore

Levad Amy <1979->

Titolo

Restorative justice [[electronic resource] ] : theories and practices of moral imagination / / Amy Levad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-59332-696-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Disciplina

364.6/8

Soggetti

Restorative justice

Criminal justice, Administration of - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A Crisis of Justice; CHAPTER 2 Justice as Equity and Moral Imagining; CHAPTER 3 Restorative Moral Imagination; CHAPTER 4 Moral Imagining in Restorative Justice Practices; CHAPTER 5 The Moral Imagination of Restorative Justice; APPENDIX Methodology, Interview Schedules, and Analysis; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Levad explores the "moral imagination" of restorative justice as an alternative framework for understanding and responding to crime, drawing together philosophical virtue ethics inspired by Aristotle's discussion of equity as the highest form of justice-a form of justice that requires vivid and expansive moral imagining-and an ethnography of restorative justice programs. Levad maintains that because participants in restorative justice practices become adept at vivid and expansive moral imagining, they are better able to realize justice and equity in response to particular cases. She concludes