Change Makers in Restorative Justice: The Transformative Power of Lived Experience (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice)

This book examines non-state justice approaches to community safety and conflict transformation, focusing on a unique model of community-based restorative justice which emerged as part of the Northern Ireland peace process.The model includes former politically motivated prisoners as managers and practitioners of restorative justice processes, contrasting from designs which ordinarily include such individuals as participants. The book uses ground-breaking insider ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to explore two main aspects of this innovative model: first, the impact of ex-prisoner practitioners on restorative practice; and second, the impact of the practitioner role on ex-prisoner re-entry.Although the organisation utilising this approach has received significant international attention for its contribution to Northern Ireland’s wider peacebuilding process, the specific impact of ex-prisoner practitioners on restorative practices has not been investigated.This book tells that story