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Justice in transition: community restorative justice in northern Ireland
Anna Eriksson
Devon, UK ; USA : Willan Publishing, 2009
ISBN: 9781843925187
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Book description
This book provides a unique account of the high-profile
community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and Loyalist
communities that have emerged with the ending of the conflict in Northern
Ireland. Unprecedented new partnerships between Republican communities and
the Police Service of Northern Ireland have developed, and former IRA and
UVF combatants and political ex prisoners have been amongst those involved.
Community restorative justice projects have been central to these
groundbreaking changes, acting as both facilitator and transformer. Based on
an extensive range of interviews with key players in this process, many of
them former combatants, and unique access to the different community
projects this books tells a fascinating story.
At the same time this book explores the wider implications for restorative
justice internationally, highlighting the important lessons for partnerships
between police and community in other jurisdictions, particularly in the
high-crime alienated neighbourhoods which exist in most western societies,
as well as transitional ones.
It also offers a critical analysis of the roles of both community and state
and the tensions around the ownership of justice, and a critical,
unromanticized assessment of the role of restorative justice in the
community.
About the author
Dr Anna Eriksson is a Lecturer in the School of
Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University.
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