Part I: Setting the scene -- Living with intimate partner violence: Heeni's story / Heeni Rongo in collaboration with Naida Glavish and Anne Hayden -- Family violence and the courts / David Mather -- Part II: Violence in the home -- Understanding the prevalence of violence against women in New Zealand -- implications for restorative justice / Janet Fanslow -- Ma matou ma tatau -- working together to change young lives : where to next with child protection in New Zealand? / Paul Nixon -- Elder abuse and neglect / Judith Davey -- Violent girls -- a casualty of family violence / Donna Swift -- Part III: The practice of restorative justice in family violence -- a case study -- Titiro Whakamuri's looking back -- Titiro Whakamua's looking forward / Maxine Rennie -- Changing lives through restorative justice -- a judicial perspective / Chris McGuire -- Restoring the balance -- restorative justice and intimate partner violence / Ken McMaster -- Part IV: Recognizing culture in restorative responses to family violence -- The promise and possibilities of restorative justice as a way of addressing intimate partner violence in England and Wales / Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Restorative practice with family violence / Julia Hennessy, Mike Hinton and Natalia Taurima -- A Pacific perspective on restorative justice: the power of saying "sorry" / Marie Ropeti -- Part V: Restorative justice and family violence -- research findings -- The use of restorative justice in family violence : the New Zealand experience / Venezia Kingi -- Perpetrators' and victims' views of restorative justice and intimate partner violence / Anne Hayden -- Taking a fresh look -- fathers and family violence / Gale Burford and Joan Pennell -- Sibling sexual abuse -- offending patterns and dynamics in conferences / Kathleen Daly and Dannielle Wade -- Part VI: Challenges and opportunities -- Gendered violence and restorative justice / Julie Stubbs -- Reflections of family violence and restorative justice -- addressing the critique / Anne Hayden -- A restorative approach to family violence: changing tack -- concluding thoughts / Heather Strang.

This book is about the possibility of using restorative justice to deal with family violence. It provides an update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family violence. It contains contemporary empirical, theoretical and practical perspectives on the use of restorative justice for intimate partner and family violence, including sexual violance and elder abuse. Given its unique experience in the development of restorative justice, the book includes empirical studies relating to New Zealand, contextualised within the global situation by the inclusion of perspectives on practices in the UK, Australia and North America. (from the backcover).