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Widening the Restorative Lens broadens our pespectives by revisiting and enriching the theoretical “core” of restorative justice. This emerges as a significant endeavor, particularly at a time when the restorative paradigm is challenged to fulfill its promise of “changing the lens” of criminal justice. The book works on restorative justice's theory by integrating ideas, interpretive schemes and conceptual proposals from philosophy, history, theology, and social sciences. Contributors from diverse disciplines and cultures delve into topics like responsibility, reconciliation, and justice’s ethical foundations, enriching not only restorative theory but also inspiring practitioners and scholars to reimagine the boundaries of justice itself.

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Contents About the Series Notes on Editors and Contributors Introduction: On Widening Lenses in Restorative Justice  Federico Reggio and Brunilda Pali 1 Restorative Justice, Criminology of Trust and the Utopian Dream  Lode Walgrave 2 Restorative Justice, Legal Pluralism, and Paradigms of Law  George Pavlich 3 Justice as Reparation: Rediscovering Some Theoretical Contributions from the Italian Legal Philosophy  Federico 4 The Contribution of Aristotelian Ethics and Concepts to Widening the Understanding of the Active Version of Responsibility in Restorative Justice  Katerina Soulou 5 Moral Righteousness in the Practice of Restorative Justice  Francis J. Schweigert 6 Reconciliation and Restoration in Hegel’s Theory of Crime and Punishment  Stefano Fuselli 7 Exploring Restorative Justice as a Political Practice with Hannah Arendt  Pieter De Witte and Brunilda Pali 8 Dialogue, Negotiation, Alliance: In Search for a Restorative Approach to Justice in Biblical Sources through the Readings of Eugen Wiesnet and François Ost  Giovanni Angelo Lodigiani and Federico Reggio 9 The Intellectual and Spiritual Legacy of Herman Thomas Bianchi: Punishment and Restoration Based on Biblical Justice  Jacques Claessen 10 The Ancient Story of Milarepa: Signpost for a Restorative Approach to Justice in the Buddhist Literary Tradition  Mirko Rizzotto 11 Resonances: Restoratively Breaking through Social Distances  Gema Varona 12 Restorative Justice, Radical Interactionism and Narrative Criminology: Widening the Boundaries of Victim-Offender Mediation  Adolfo Ceretti and Lorenzo Natali 13 From the Attribution of Responsibility to the Promotion of Accountability: Gaetano De Leo’s Contribution  Patrizia Patrizi 14 The Legacy of Janusz Korczak’s Pedagogy for the Restorative Justice Community  Anna Matczak Index

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Federico Reggio (Ph.D., 2007, University of Padova), is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Law at the University of Padova. He is Scientific Director of the academic journal “Mediares”. His research interests include restorative justice, conflict resolution, classical legal philosophy and bioethics. Among his numerous publications, his most recent monograph, “Il Paradigma Scartato” (Primiceri Editore, 2021) reconstructs Giambattista Vico's peculiar Legal Philosophy. Brunilda Pali (Ph.D., 2016, KU Leuven), is Assistant Professor of Conflict Dynamics and Governance at the University of Amsterdam and Chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice. She researches, teaches and publishes on restorative, environmental and social justice. She is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice (Palgrave, 2022) and Restorative Justice at a Crossroads: Dilemmas of Institutionalisation (Routledge, 2024).

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