...jurisprudence and of our notions of freedom, democracy, and community, Restorative justice has heen the dominant model of criminal justice throughout most of human history for all the world's peoples. A decisive move away from it came with the Norman conquest of much of Europe...

...legal historians, legal systems based on retributive justice are the anomaly across time and cultures; restorative justice "has been the dominant model of...criminal justice throughout most of human history for all the worlds' people."2i For example, Danielle Allen has argued that in classical Athens wrongdoing...

...the involvement of alternative institutions has a long history. Braithwaite has even claimed that, 'Restorative justice has been the dominant model of...human history for perhaps all the world's peoples' (Braithwaite 2002: 5; for critical discussion of this claim, see Daly 2002); and even within the framework...

...has been suppressed by the modern nation state. John Braithwaite (2001: 5l, for example, claims that "Restorative justice has been the dominant model of...human history for perhaps all the world's peoples'. The sub-text — and sometimes the plain text — of such claims is that the important elements of...

...Buddhist. Taoist. and Confucian traditions...'; and he concludes that 'restorative justice has heen the dominant model of criminal justice throughout most of human history for all the world's peoples (1999. p.1. my emphasis). What an extraordinary claim! Linked with the claim...

...society after the state1 emerged as the dominant power in society. Braithwaite (1998:1) notes that "restorative justice has been the dominant model of...criminal justice throughout most of human history for all the world's peoples." Van Ness (1986: 66) observes that "a decisive move away from it came with...