Justice That Transforms Volume One: 1

Restorative Justice was a term and concept largely unused before the mid-1970s. Wayne Northey happened to be in on the ground floor of facilitating its worldwide adoption as a challenge to Western retributive justice systems ultimately to violent responses to conflict domestically and internationally. The most replicated early model of Restorative Justice based on the well-known Elmira Case was a Canadian first initially dubbed Victim Offender Reconciliation Project (VORP). The author became its second director in 1977. The term mediation later displaced the more religious word reconciliation as the model spread outside Christian moorings; and program displaced the initially more tentative project. At seminary Northey had learned to think through ones vocation theologically. He began in that vein writing and publishing on this profound call for a systemic paradigm shift and has been at it ever since. This publication is volume 1 of a series of his collected writings of which two additional volumes may be found online. Two or three further volumes are projected.