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Restorative Justice in Canada: Lessons Learned

Dennis Cooley
March 2002



Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. The Restorative Justice Approach

III. Restorative Justice Programs

IV. The Restorative Process

V. Some Lessons Learned

A. The Need for an Alternative to the Adversarial Process
B. Coercion
C. Emotion
D. The Role of Community
E. Evaluation
F. Top-down or Bottom-up
G. Restorative Justice and the Living Law

VI. The Prospect of Transformative Justice


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