Answer chapter questions from Restoring Justice An Introduction to Restorative Justice by Daniel W Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong.

Chapter 8

1. What are six recommendations for gaining support for change?
2. Why is coalition-building strategic?
3. What are the four strategic goals for change, and how would achieving them help bring balance to criminal justice policies and practices?
4. What is the value of ongoing evaluation, and what is important to monitor?

Chapter 9

1. Why are consent, safety, and fundamental rights preconditions to constructing a restorative system?
2. What are the five models for a restorative system?
3. IN what parts of contemporary criminal justice is restorative justice used?
4. Which four values are useful in measuring the restorativeness of a justice system?
5. Which of those values must be fully demonstrated to call a system "restorative"? Why?

Chapter 10

1. How do thought patterns either positively or negatively affect our perspective about reality?
2. What are the four elements of transformation of perspective?
3. What are some examples of structural "power imbalances," and what are their consequences?
4. What pitfalls are inherent in personalizing the moral dimension of crime?
5. What personal obligations does the moral dimension of justice and injustice place on people who aspire to a just society?