What is life like for a child who has a parent in prison?

This book brings together photographic portraits of 30 children whose parents are incarcerated, along with their thoughts and reflections, in their own words.

Victim offender dialogues have been developed as a way to hold offenders accountable to the person they have harmed and to give victims a voice about how to put things right. It is a way of acknowledging the importance of the relationship, of the connection which crime creates. Granted, the relationship is a negative one, but there is a relationship.

The staff and faculty proposed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) programs in response. In the years since then, those ideas have been put into practice, re-tooled, and used successfully again and again.

Howard Zehr presents the portraits and the courageous stories of 39 victims of violent crime in Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims. Many of these people were twice-wounded: once at the hands of an assailant; the second time by the courts, where there is no legal provision for a victim’s participation.

Peacebuilding recognizes the complexity and the effort this elusive ideal requires. Schirch singles out four critical actions that must be undertaken if peace is to take root at any level) -- 1.) waging conflict nonviolently; 2.) reducing direct violence; 3.) transforming relationships; and 4.) building capacity.

Most books on negotiation assume that the negotiators are in a stable setting.

But what about those far thornier times when negotiation needs to happen while other fundamental factors are in uproarious change -- deciding which parent will have custody of their child while a divorce is underway; bargaining between workers and management during the course of a merger and downsizing; or establishing a new government as a civil war winds down.

With more than 2.3 million incarcerated individuals in the United States, prisoners are often regarded as a thrown-away population. While the criminal justice system focuses on giving offenders their "just desserts," it does little to explore or restore the needs or factors that lead to crime.

This highly practical book offers three models of campus practice, considerations when starting a campus program, and how to include Restorative Justice in the Student Conduct Code.

Because of repeated requests from buyers and from those who work in this field, we are making this top-selling book available to Spanish readers.

Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice--a community-based approach to criminal justice that focuses on rehabilitating offenders and repairing the harm caused to victims--and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book on the movement. (The original edition has sold more than 110,000 copies.)