This book addresses the relationship between restorative justice and children’s rights, an issue of increasing relevance to restorative justice theory and practice that has thus far received relatively little attention. Readers will find useful reviews of international human rights documents and of legislation, policy and practices in countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, North America, and Oceania. Each of the chapters demonstrates the compatibility between children’s rights and restorative justice. Adopting a rights-based approach is an important means for countries that are interested in further developing restorative justice practices, as it helps restorative processes that are new to the juvenile justice system to gain credibility as well as safeguard young participants’ rights in these processes. In countries where restorative justice has been developed, a rights approach can stimulate innovation and applications beyond the child justice system. The book focuses on both needs and rights of children and young people who caused harm or suffered harm. Some chapters also adopt a critical point of view to explore the tensions between rights and restorative justice in relation to colonisation, welfare models, and professional privilege.

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About the series; Acknowledgments; Beyond rhetoric on children’s rights and restorative justice – A critical foreword (Lode Walgrave); Introduction (Annemieke Wolthuis & Tim Chapman); Part I International standards and reflections on restorative justice for children; Chapter 1 Restorative justice, a child’s right (Annemieke Wolthuis); Chapter 2 Restorative practices can steal the rights of children too – The importance of value-led and evidence-based standards (Tim Chapman); Chapter 3 The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child – How we work and what child victims and offenders need (Renate Winter); Chapter 4 Child victims and child perpetrators in restorative justice – A Needs-Rights Model (Tali Gal); Chapter 5 Rights-based restorative justice – Questioning and decolonizing our ways of knowing, doing and being in Canada and beyond (Shannon A. Moore); Part II Global developments & trends of restorative justice for children; Chapter 6 Restorative justice for children around the globe – International perspectives and trends (Cedric Foussard); Chapter 7 Restorative justice in European youth justice systems – Contextual, legal, practice-related and analytical aspects (Frieder Dünkel & Andrea Păroşanu); Chapter 8 Restorative child justice: South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe (Julia Sloth-Nielsen); Part III Local practices and challenges for restorative justice approaches with children; Chapter 9 Introducing restorative practices in the child justice system of Georgia (Maia Chochua); Chapter 10 Restorative justice and children’s rights in Aotearoa New Zealand – Convergence and divergence (Andrea Păroşanu & Nessa Lynch); Chapter 11 The potential of restorative justice to fulfill the children’s right to be heard – The experience in Chile (Daniela Bolívar, Alejandra Mera & Iván Navarro); Chapter 12 When child-friendly justice meets restorative justice in a welfare model – The case of France (Jessica Filippi); Chapter 13 Restorative justice for young people in Poland – The law, current practices and prospects for improvement (Beata Czarnecka-Dzialuk); Chapter 14 Child justice in the Netherlands – A boost for restorative and child-friendly interventions? (Maartje Berger & Annemieke Wolthuis); Chapter 15 Rights, restoration and justice for children – Shaking the Movers in Canada (Brenda Morrison, Virginia Caputo, Angie Osachoff & Daniella Bendo); Chapter 16 Strengthening rights and participation of children – A Finnish perspective on a restorative approach to education (Maija Gellin)