This 2001 collection looks at the restorative justice movement and the relationship between restorative justice and civil society.

1. Introduction: restorative justice and civil society John Braithwaite and Heather Strang; 2. Transforming security: a South African experiment Clifford Shearing; 3. Two Protestant ethics and the spirit of restoration Lawrence Sherman; 4. The force of community George Pavlich; 5. The crime victim movement as a force in civil society Heather Strang; 6. Reparations and restorative justice: responding to the gross violation of human rights Chris Cunneen; 7. Restorative justice and civil society in Melanesia: the case of Papua New Guinea Sinclair Dinnen; 8. Restorative justice in everyday life: beyond the formal ritual Ted Wachtel and Paul McCold; 9. Community conferencing as a special case of conflict transformation John McDonald and David Moore; 10. Restorative justice and the need for restorative environments in bureaucracies and corporations James Ritchie and Terry O'Connell; 11. 'If your only tool is a hammer, all your problems will look like nails' Sir Charles Pollard; 12. Restorative justice and school discipline: mutually exclusive? Lisa Cameron and Margaret Thorsborne; 13. The school system: developing its capacity in the regulation of civil society Brenda Morrison; 14. Security and justice for all David Bayley.