PSYC 339

Credit: 3 hours.

Pulling from a variety of applied disciplines and areas of scholarship, this course provides an overview of the contemporary restorative justice movement and critically examines restorative justice principles and methods. Starting with the problems and limitations associated with mainstream (punitive) responses to crime and rule violations, we examine how restorative justice presents an alternative set of philosophical principles of justice and seek to understand the costs and benefits associated with the different methods developed to apply that philosophy.