This excellent manual should give a substantial impetus to the use of restorative techniques such as mediation and conferencing where they are badly needed - schools. The education system must find better ways of dealing with problem behaviour. As Belinda Hopkins says, if schools lock children out, then the criminal justice system will lock them in.
Full of practical programmes and illustrated by plenty of examples, Just Schools shows how restorative justice can be used to resolve difficulties from low-level antagonism to more serious issues of bullying. It is much more jargon-free than many books of this kind, and draws on academic sources and personal experience.
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