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For the first time, the four most popular restorative justice audiobooks in the Justice & Peacebuilding series —The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, and The Little Book of Circle Processes — are available in one audio volume.

Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension-antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.  

This is not soft-on-crime, feel-good philosophy, but rather a concrete effort to bring justice and healing to everyone involved in a crime. In The Little Book of Restorative Justice, Howard Zehr, the father of restorative justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice, first explores how restorative justice is different from criminal justice. Then, before letting those appealing observations drift out of reach into theoretical space, Zehr presents restorative justice practices.

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and wider reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together.

Much more than a response to harm, restorative justice nurtures relational, interconnected school cultures. The wisdom embedded within its principles and practices is being welcomed at a time when exclusionary discipline and zero-tolerance policies are recognized as perpetuating student apathy, disproportionality, and the school-to-prison pipeline.

We have all been hurt by someone, in some cases very seriously. And we have all inflicted pain on someone else, even if it was unintended. The consequences have often been devastating, and continue to this day. We find ourselves ‘stuck’ in anger, fear, isolation, disbelief, bitterness, self-blame, denial, guilt, shame . . . the list is all too familiar. Our friends and family plead with us to ‘move on’ and ‘put the past behind us’. But it’s never that simple. There is no ‘magic wand’ that can instantly sweep away this kind of pain. So what can we do? How can we find some ...

This book is for the birthworker desiring to be intentional on their pathway of becoming. It is through the power of story that we can lift a veil on that which is being obscured, and reveal the stories that have hidden influence over what we do and what we don't do. By courageously and compassionately examining the stories we tell ourselves, we can walk with greater awareness from our past, through our emerging present, and into the future.

In our era of mass incarceration, gun violence, and Black Lives Matters, a handbook showing how racial justice and restorative justice can transform the African American experience in America. 

Would you like to build a stronger relationship? This relationship book for couples will help you get to know each other on a new level, with activities and games centered around having carefree fun. COUPLES THERAPY WORKBOOK is a series of guided questions and exercises to promote meaningful couple conversations and build ongoing, connected communication. It is presented weekly over the course of 7 weeks. However, it may be adjusted to fit any timeline and developed to be utilized by couples and clinicians working with couples in a marriage counseling setting. Evidence-Based Marriage ...

This Little Book aims to expand upon the roles and responsibilities of community stakeholders in healing and reparative approaches to justice. Whether family members, friends, neighbors, concerned citizens, or system actors, the range of needs, obligations, and opportunities to engage with restorative justice processes is vast and deserving of greater attention.

Transforming School Culture Through Connection, Empathy, and Justice. As a Principal, Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach, or aspiring Educational Leader, you long to instinctively turn to discipline policies or quick referrals, but what if you could pause and just listen? Imagine seeing beyond surface behaviors to your students’ stories pulsing underneath—grief, fear, and a yearning to be understood? This is the heartbeat of a restorative classroom, where humanity guides every choice.

Unlock the transformative power of Restorative Justice in schools with this comprehensive eBook, designed to revolutionize the way educational environments address conflict and discipline. Dive deep into the principles, practices, and benefits of restorative justice, and discover how it can create a more inclusive, respectful, and engaged school community. Begin with a thorough introduction to the principles of restorative justice and the limitations of traditional school discipline methods. Understand the rise of restorative practices in education and how they are reshaping school climates...

This little book discusses paths to address environmental conflicts based on a restorative justice perspective of imagining, practicing, and living justice. It proposes an approach that understands the relationship between humankind and environment beyond the narrow conception of homo economicus, considering the human beings in their social, political, economic, historic, spiritual, cognitive, emotional, aesthetic, and ecological dimensions, as well as in their connection with nature and non-human entities.

Can an overworked teacher possibly turn an unruly incident with students into an opportunity for learning, growth, and community-building? If restorative justice has been able to salvage lives within the world of criminal behavior, why shouldn't its principles be applied in school classrooms and cafeterias? And if our children learn restorative practices early and daily, won't we be building a healthier, more just society? Two educators answer yes, yes, and yes in this new addition to The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding series. Amstutz and Mullet offer applications and models.

Introduction 50 Social Emotional Learning Lessons is a comprehensive curriculum that teaches crucial skills at a pivotal time in our society. This book synthesizes the best practices of personal development, life coaching, and mindfulness into a clear set of instructions for teachers. There are ten units of instruction that span a broad spectrum of essential SEL skills and values. Each unit is a self contained set of lessons that can be taught independently or sequentially as part of a year long curriculum. Every unit meets all of the Social Emotional Learning Standards created by CASEL.ORG...

Restorative justice represents "a paradigm shift in the way Americans conceptualize and administer punishment," says author Maisha T. Winn, from a focus on crime to a focus on harm, including the needs of both those who were harmed and those who caused it.

Makes a powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal. In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of...

"What if prison did not punish but actually healed? In The Prison Cure, Jesse J. Jacoby offers a revolutionary blueprint for reform. One born not from politics or theory, but from personal experience behind the walls. Incarcerated as a teenager, and later again as an adult for cannabis charges, Jacoby witnessed firsthand how the system breaks people further instead of helping them rise. While most surrendered to the cycle, he chose another path: Purity. Discipline. Nutrition. Inner transformation. Refusing to eat toxic meals designed to dull the spirit, he fasted for 94 days, lost 40 pounds...

28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the world Wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of...

As it’s Restorative Justice Week, we sat down with retired sheriff and Sacro Board Member, David Mackie.Through his work as a Sheriff, David developed a belief in the power of redemption and applied compassion and understanding of both the victims and perpetrators of crime to his personal judicial practice. So what are his views and experiences of restorative justice?David was in private practice as a Solicitor and an Advocate for 25 years before being appointed a Sheriff in 2001. For 15 years until his retirement from the Bench in 2019, he sat as the resident Sheriff in Alloa Sheriff Court....