Restorative and Responsive Human Services

by JohnBraithwaite (Editor), Gale Burford (Editor), ValerieBraithwaite (Editor)

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2019
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While both restorative justice and responsive regulation represent vibrant traditions of scholarship and practice, they continue to travel on mainly separate tracks and tend to be understood as matters best suited to criminal justice. The hard questions remain about when, how, with whom, and in what context to punish and to persuade and how best to offer these processes for their healing potential to victims and relationships. They hold in common the view that punishment, when it is seen as excessive, unfairly administered, or is seen as a bluff, typically fails in its goals and often provokes reactivity or loss of trust in the system of regulation. At the same time, the work continues to be mainly understood as having value in the areas of criminal justice practice. Restorative and Responsive Human Services advances the understanding of restorative justice and responsive regulation-achievements, evidence, and trajectories-with a particular focus on the ways their theories and applications serve as a bridge between disciplines and between formal and informal human services.

Human services such as child protection, education, and aged care are at their core relational practices. They are the craft of the healing hand, the helping hand, and empowerment. This might distinguish them from other fields like criminal law, business regulation, and peace enforcement. In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Burford, Braithwaite, and Braithwaite bring together material showing that other fields can learn rich lessons from human services about the importance of being relational, healing, and empowering-in other words, through restorative practices. Restorative justice cannot solve everything. It must be strategically integrated with a range of other strategies that enable restorative justice and learning as options of first choice. This requires integration of restorative justice with responsive regulation, a practice that this book shows how to do for challenges that range from sexual misconduct in universities to securing welfare rights and righting the wrongs of Jim Crow laws.

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While both restorative justice and responsive regulation represent vibrant traditions of scholarship and practice, they continue to travel on mainly separate tracks and tend to be understood as matters best suited to criminal justice. The hard questions remain about when, how, with whom, and in what context to punish and to persuade and how best to offer these processes for their healing potential to victims and relationships. They hold in common the view that punishment, when it is seen as excessive, unfairly administered, or is seen as a bluff, typically fails in its goals and often provokes reactivity or loss of trust in the system of regulation. At the same time, the work continues to be mainly understood as having value in the areas of criminal justice practice. Restorative and Responsive Human Services advances the understanding of restorative justice and responsive regulation-achievements, evidence, and trajectories-with a particular focus on the ways their theories and applications serve as a bridge between disciplines and between formal and informal human services.

Human services such as child protection, education, and aged care are at their core relational practices. They are the craft of the healing hand, the helping hand, and empowerment. This might distinguish them from other fields like criminal law, business regulation, and peace enforcement. In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Burford, Braithwaite, and Braithwaite bring together material showing that other fields can learn rich lessons from human services about the importance of being relational, healing, and empowering-in other words, through restorative practices. Restorative justice cannot solve everything. It must be strategically integrated with a range of other strategies that enable restorative justice and learning as options of first choice. This requires integration of restorative justice with responsive regulation, a practice that this book shows how to do for challenges that range from sexual misconduct in universities to securing welfare rights and righting the wrongs of Jim Crow laws.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 1138387118
ISBN 13: 9781138387119

Author Bio

Gale Burford is Professor Emeritus of Social Work, University of Vermont. His practice, teaching, and research has focused mainly on social work in statutory settings including child protection, youth justice, and corrections. With colleague Joan Pennell, he was co-principal investigator of the Newfoundland & Labrador Family Group Decision Making Project, which employed a unique participatory design cited internationally as a model approach for carrying out research at the intersections of child maltreatment and domestic violence. He has taught, carried out research and program evaluation activities, and consulted with programs internationally. Projects include finalizing an evaluation of a multi-year effort by the state of Vermont to embrace strength-based and other relational approaches to the regulation of offenders' behavior and an evaluation of the state of Maine's use of restorative justice with youthful offenders. He is currently consulting on projects using restorative justice approaches in Leeds, England, and Milan, Italy. John Braithwaite is a Distinguished Professor and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network) at the Australian National University. Since 2004 he has led a 25-year comparative project called Peacebuilding Compared. He also works on business regulation and the crime problem. His best known research is on the ideas of responsive regulation and restorative justice. Reintegrative shaming has also been an important focus. Braithwaite has been active in the peace movement, the politics of development, the social movement for restorative justice, the labour movement and the consumer movement, around these and other ideas for 50 years in Australia and internationally. He was winner of the Law and Society Association International Award in 2017. Valerie Braithwaite is an interdisciplinary scholar and professor of regulatory studies in the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australia National University (ANU). With a disciplinary background in psychology, her work focuses on the interplay between regulators and regulatees, the governing, and the governed. Her work addresses the ways in which individuals and groups engage with regulations imposed by government and other authorities in fields as diverse as caregiving, health, taxation, school and workplace bullying, work safety, migration, agriculture, child protection, charities and education. Braithwaite has served as an advisor on regulatory policy in areas of education, work safety, charitable organizations, immigration, taxation, aged care, and affirmative action. She served on the Australian Government's ATO Cash Economy Task Force (1995-2005) and the National Skills Standards Council (2011-14). In 2013, with Kwong Lee Dow, she conducted a review of regulation in higher education for the Australian Government.