Summary: | Levad explores the OC moral imaginationOCO of restorative justice as an alternative framework for understanding and responding to crime, drawing together philosophical virtue ethics inspired by AristotleOCOs discussion of equity as the highest form of justiceOCoa form of justice that requires vivid and expansive moral imaginingOCoand an ethnography of restorative justice programs. Levad maintains that because participants in restorative justice practices become adept at vivid and expansive moral imagining, they are better able to realize justice and equity in response to particular cases. She concludes that further institutionalization of restorative justice may help answer some aspects of crises in our criminal and juvenile justice systems."
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