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Faith-based mentoring and restorative justice: Overlapping theoretical, empirical, and philosophical background

Restorative Justice: from Theory to Practice

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1455-3, eISBN: 978-1-84950-559-8

Publication date: 19 May 2008

Abstract

This chapter focuses on restorative/rehabilitative faith-based programs, in particular, a youth mentoring program conducted by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. We begin with a brief description of a faith- and community-based juvenile mentoring program of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (which we are in the process of evaluating) intended to provide community reintegration and restoration of adjudicated delinquents released from state juvenile correctional facilities. Then we move to the overlapping theoretical, philosophical, and empirical backgrounds of restorative justice, faith-based rehabilitative/restorative, and mentoring programs. We conclude with a review of programmatic and empirical issues in faith-based mentoring programs.

Citation

Akers, R.L., Lane, J. and Lanza-Kaduce, L. (2008), "Faith-based mentoring and restorative justice: Overlapping theoretical, empirical, and philosophical background", Ventura Miller, H. (Ed.) Restorative Justice: from Theory to Practice (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 139-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1521-6136(08)00406-5

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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