Restorative and Responsive Human Services - Gale Burford

Restorative and Responsive Human Services

By: Gale Burford (Editor), John Braithwaite (Editor), Valerie Braithwaite (Editor)

Hardcover | 11 March 2019

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While both restorative justice and responsive regulation represent vibrant traditions of scholarship and practice, they continue to travel on mainly separate tracks and tend to be understood as matters best suited to criminal justice. The hard questions remain about when, how, with whom, and in what context to punish and to persuade and how best to offer these processes for their healing potential to victims and relationships. They hold in common the view that punishment, when it is seen as excessive, unfairly administered, or is seen as a bluff, typically fails in its goals and often provokes reactivity or loss of trust in the system of regulation. At the same time, the work continues to be mainly understood as having value in the areas of criminal justice practice. Restorative and Responsive Human Services advances the understanding of restorative justice and responsive regulation-achievements, evidence, and trajectories-with a particular focus on the ways their theories and applications serve as a bridge between disciplines and between formal and informal human services.

Human services such as child protection, education, and aged care are at their core relational practices. They are the craft of the healing hand, the helping hand, and empowerment. This might distinguish them from other fields like criminal law, business regulation, and peace enforcement. In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Burford, Braithwaite, and Braithwaite bring together material showing that other fields can learn rich lessons from human services about the importance of being relational, healing, and empowering-in other words, through restorative practices. Restorative justice cannot solve everything. It must be strategically integrated with a range of other strategies that enable restorative justice and learning as options of first choice. This requires integration of restorative justice with responsive regulation, a practice that this book shows how to do for challenges that range from sexual misconduct in universities to securing welfare rights and righting the wrongs of Jim Crow laws.

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Rules against violence, bullying, child abuse, and sexual assault too often fail to improve safety while escalating the numbers of individuals incarcerated, separated from their families, schools, and chances for learning and starting anew. Restorative justice methods make inroads but remain marginal or even coopted by dominant and punitive approaches, but the authors of this book demonstrate how prevention strategies and rigorous efforts to strengthen relationships and communities can better protect individuals and communities from violence and other harms. Drawing lessons from settings as diverse as a nuclear power plant meltdown, auto industry cheating on emissions, and a sports stadium riot, to foster care crises and campus sexual assault and harassment, this book shows the elements in lasting solutions that draw on knowledge and build capacities of those most affected and the concentric circles of communities, professionals, and flexible systems focused on fixing problems rather than stigmatizing individuals.

Martha Minow, A.B., Ed.M., J.D., Author, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University

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This groundbreaking collection from the leading theorists of responsive regulation and restorative justice offers an insightful investigation of alternatives to the prevailing punitive authoritarian approach to human services and regulation. Contributors offer impressive evidence of the benefit of an empowerment relational approach to human services as well as the ability of ordinary citizens to, in turn, demand state and market accountability - whether on behalf of nursing home residents, farmworkers, or child-welfare involved African American mothers. The book places restorative justice and responsive regulation in dialogue and examines critically overlapping goals as well as divergence. It is a must-read not only for human service providers and policy makers, but for all who seek justice and who believe in the capacity of communities to create social change.

Donna Coker, B.S.W., M.S.W., J.D., Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School

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Restorative justice is badly underestimated when it is portrayed as simply another criminal justice alternative. This remarkable conversation of voices from a range of contexts and perspectives vividly illustrates the true potential of restorative justice as a holistic vision of change, not just in the justice system, but throughout the policy sphere. This inspirational collection is exactly what is needed at this dangerous historical moment we find ourselves in.

Shadd Maruna, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

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This stimulating collection of essays charts the path toward a more comprehensive integration of the principles of restorative justice and responsive regulation, to the mutual benefit of both endeavours and with a particular focus on its implications for the human services sector. This book will be of keen interest to scholars, policymakers, regulators, community activists and restorative practitioners.

Chris Marshall, B.A., B.D., M.A., Ph.D., Professor, The Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Author of All Things Reconciled: Essays on Restorative Justice, Religious Violence and the Interpretation of Scripture

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This timely book makes an important intervention into contemporary human services, which globally are struggling to respond to calls for equity and inclusion from within settings now fundamentally defined by neoliberal policies and practices. Provocatively, it leans into rather than away from the contested question of regulation, offering a richly buttressed argument not for abandoning regulation, but for recapturing it. What emerges is a compelling, detailed, and practically useful case for "nuanced hybridity": responsive and restorative institutional scaffolds, centered in human relationships, accountable to stakeholders, and firmly grounded in democratic values, community imperatives, and social justice commitments.

Susan P. Kemp, B.A., C.Q.S.W., M.A., Ph.D., Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor, University of Washington School of Social Work, Professor, University of Auckland, School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work

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