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Author Acorn, Annalise E.

Title Compulsory compassion : a critique of restorative justice / Annalise Acorn.

Imprint Vancouver : UBC Press, c2004.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364.68 Ac72c 2004    ---  Available
Description xii, 207 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-201)and index.
Contents The seductive vision of restorative justice: right-relation, reciprocity, healing, and repair -- "Essentially and only a matter of love" : justice and the teachableness of universal love -- Three precarious pillars of restorative optimism -- Sentimental justice : the unearned emotions of restorative catharsis -- "Lovemaking is justice-making" : the idealization of eros and the eroticization of justice -- Compulsory compassion : justice, fellow-feeling, and the restorative encounter -- Epilogue : Restorative utopias--"the fire with which we must play"?
Subject Restorative justice.
ISBN 0774809434 (pbk.)

 
    
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