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Restorative Justice and Punishment*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Conrad G. Brunk
Affiliation:
Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo

Extract

In The Practice of Punishment, Wesley Cragg sets out a systematic “restorative” theory of criminal punishment. For him, restorative justice identifies the goal of punishment as “the resolution of disputes to which criminal offenses give rise in ways designed to sustain confidence in the capacity of the law to fulfil its legitimate functions on the part of victims of crime and the public at large” (p. 9).

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1996

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References

* Wesley Cragg, The Practice of Punishment: Towards a Theory of Restorative Justice (London: Routledge, 1992), x + 258 pp. US$65.00. Page references are to this work.