Compulsory Compassion
A Critique of Restorative Justice
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Compulsory Compassion
A Critique of Restorative Justice
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The Seductive Vision of Restorative Justice: Right-Relation, Reciprocity, Healing, and Repair
2 “Essentially and Only a Matter of Love”: Justice and the Teachability of Universal Love
3 Three Precarious Pillars of Restorative Optimism
4 Sentimental Justice: The Unearned Emotions of Restorative Catharsis
5 “Lovemaking Is Justice-Making”: The Idealization of Eros and the Eroticization of Justice
6 Compulsory Compassion: Justice, Fellow-Feeling and the Restorative Encounter
7 Epilogue. Restorative Utopias: “The Fire with Which We Must Play”?
Notes
References
Index
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