Natti Ronel is the Head of the Department of Criminology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Natti is a clinical criminologist who incorporates clinical experience with research to develop theories on crime (criminal spin), recovery (Grace Therapy) and criminal justice. Natti introduced the Positive Criminology and Victimology perspectives, and is currently developing the Spiritual Criminology concept.

Dana Segev is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University. She has published papers on parole within a communicative sentencing framework and on Therapeutic Jurisprudence. Segev holds a MSc from the University of Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation on desistance.

Foreword 1. Introduction: "The good" can overcome "the bad", Natti Ronel and Dana Segev 2. How can criminology (and victimology) become positive?, Natti Ronel 3. The effect of "the good" and the self-centeredness barrier - Positive criminology in the lived reality of youth at risk, Ben Zvi Tahel and Haimoff-Ayali Ronit 4. Positive Criminology, Positive Criminal Justice?, Fergus McNeill 5. Strengths-Based Restorative Approaches to Reentry: The Evolution of Creative Restitution, Reintegration and Destigmitization, Shadd Maruna and Thomas P. LeBel 6. Synergizing Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Positive Criminology, Tali Gal and David B. Wexler 7. Positive Criminology and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Relevant Techniques for Defense Lawyers, Dana Segev 8. Peacemaking, Hal Pepinsky 9. Israel's Juvenile Probation Service from the perspective of positive criminology: A critical review, Ety Elisah 10. Applied positive criminology: Restorative reentry and transition planning circles for incarcerated people and their loved ones, Lorenn Walker 11. The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation: Working Positively with Sexual Offenders, Chi Meng Chu and Tony Ward 12. Hotel Prison Check-out - Hotel Pardon Check-in, Jan De Cock 13. Long-term recovery from addiction: criminal justice involvement and positive criminology?, David Best and Elizabeth Aston 14. Recovery as a social phenomenon: What is the role of the community in supporting and enabling recovery?, David Best, Karen Bird and Lucy Hunton 15. Application of Positive Criminology in the 12-Step Program, Gila Chen and Keren Gueta 16. "Pulling Myself up by the Bootstraps": Self-change of Addictive Behaviors from the Perspective of Positive Criminology, Keren Gueta and Gila Chen 17. Positive Victimology - A contemporary approach or more of the same?, Yaara Toren 18. Posttraumatic growth and positive victimology: The case of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women who resided in a shelter, Mally Shechory-Bitton and Natti Ronel 19. Restorative Justice and Domestic Violence: A view from a positive victimological perspective, Nadia Wager 20. Irrational Coping Theory and Positive Criminology: A Frame Work to Protect Victims of Cyber Crime, Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar 21. Between Secondary Victimization and Positive Victimology: The Case of Crime Victims' Right of Privacy, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg and Dana Pugach 22. Challenges of Post-conflict Reintegration of Former Girl Soldiers, Janice Joseph 23. Programs for female prisoners and positive criminology and victimology: the case of Serbia, Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic and Sanja Copic Epilogue: Present to Future: A Positive Direction for Criminology?, John Fuller.

How can we best help offenders desist from crime, as well as help victims heal? This book engages with this question by offering its readers a comprehensive review of positive criminology in theory, research and practice. Positive criminology is a concept - a perspective - that places emphasis on forces of integration and social inclusion that are experienced positively by target individual and groups, and may contribute to a reduction in negative emotions, desistance from crime and overcoming the traumatic experience of victimization. In essence, positive criminology holds a more holistic view, which acknowledges that thriving and disengagement from distress, addiction, mental illness, crime, deviance or victimization might be fostered more effectively by enhancing positive emotions and experiences, rather than focusing on reducing negative attributes.
Each chapter in this book is written by key scholars in the related fields of criminology, victimology and addiction and, thus, assembles varied and extensive approaches to rehabilitation and treatment. These approaches share in common a positive criminology view, thereby enriching our understanding of the concept and other strength-based approaches to dealing with offenders and victims.
This edited book elaborates on positive criminology core ideas and assumptions; discusses related theories and innovations; and presents various benefits that this perspective can promote in the field of rehabilitation. For this reason, this book will be essential reading for those engaged in the study of criminology, criminal justice and victimology and may also assist scholars and professionals to help offenders desist from crime and improve victims' well-being.