Giuseppe Maglione is Lecturer of Criminology and Director of the Restorative Justice Clinic in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, UK.

Ian D. Marder is Assistant Professor of Criminology in the School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University, Ireland.

Brunilda Pali is Assistant Professor of Conflict Dynamics and Resolution in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1. Contextualising the dilemmas of institutionalising restorative justice 2. Restorative justice in Australia and New Zealand: A Faustian bargain with the state? 3. Restorative justice for wrongful convictions: A quasi-institutional approach 4. The 'autonomy' principle as a normative 'red line' between restorative processes and criminal proceedings in France 5. Innovative and transformative effects of restorative justice: Reflections on the recent reform adopted in Italy 6. Restorative justice and domestic violence courts in Brazil: The double challenge of institutionalisation 7. Beyond lawmaking: Restorative approaches in governance 8. Meeting the challenges of scaling up restorative justice in the United States 9. Congruent or contradictory? What isomorphism teaches us about the relationship between restorative justice and the mainstream criminal justice system 10. The 'deadly embrace' of restorative justice in Germany 11. Victim offender mediation in the Danish police: The dancing and wrestling of organisation culture and programme purpose 12. Crossroads and dilemmas

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last twenty years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normative structure of restorative justice, and on its understanding and uses in practice.