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Changing lenses : a new focus for crime and justice / Howard Zehr.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Christian peace shelf selectionPublication details: Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, �1990.Description: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585311730
  • 9780585311739
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Changing lenses.DDC classification:
  • 364.6 20
LOC classification:
  • K5001 .Z43 1990eb
Online resources:
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?
Summary: 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 description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-263).

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?

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 description.

Print version record.

English.

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