Changing lenses : a new focus for crime and justice /

Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Howard Zehr proposes a "restorative" model which is more consistent with experience, with the past, and with the biblical tradition. --from publisher de...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zehr, Howard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, ©1990.
Series:Christian peace shelf selection.
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Punishment.
Reconciliation.
Victims of crimes.
Criminals.
Réconciliation.
Criminels.
criminals.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Criminaliteit.
Strafrechtspleging.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The experience of crime. A vignette
  • The victim
  • The offender
  • Some common themes
  • The justice paradigm. Retributive jestuce
  • Justice as paradigm
  • Roots and signposts. Community justice
  • Covenant justice
  • VORP: an experimental plot
  • A new lens. A restorative lense
  • Where from here?

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