Reimagining Restorative Justice Agency and Accountability in the Criminal Process

In recent years, restorative-based interventions have expanded rapidly and are increasingly viewed as a legitimate, and even superior means of delivering justice. The result of this swift but piecemeal development has been that restorative justice practice has outpaced the development of restorative justice theory. This book takes up this challenge by `reimagining' a new framework for the operation of restorative justice within criminal justice. In essence, it is contended that the core empowering values of `agency' and `accountability' provide a lens for reimagining how restorative justice works and the normative goals it ought to encompass.