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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Beyond the Headlines -- Introducing Relational Justice -- Getting Personal about Justice -- Where I Come From -- Book Overview -- Notes -- PART ONE: Judging Wrong -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. Violence and the Soul -- Criminal Violence in America: A Land Familiar and Strange -- Listening to Victims: Emotional Effects -- Reading Victim Emotions: Harms to Identity and the Soul -- The Soul: Definition and Function -- The Battle over Who We Are, Really: Rival Views of Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. Blame for Moral Disregard -- Moral Responsibility for Criminal Violence -- Blame in Criminal Law: Child Sexual Abuse -- Objections to Blame for Moral Disregard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Misjudging Wrong -- The Story We Love: Good Guys vs. Bad Guys -- Nonrecognition, Part I: Sexual Violence by the Trusted -- Nonrecognition, Part II: Unconscious Race Bias -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART TWO: Just Punishment -- Introduction to Part Two -- 4. Punishing with Regard -- Punishment and Incarceration -- A Reality Check: Just Punishment and Social Injustice -- How to Sentence with Moral Regard -- Public Responsibility for Sentencing Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Cruelty by Law: Mandatory Life in California -- The Origins of Mandatory Life in California -- The Passage of Three Strikes -- The Enactment of Mandatory Life for Juvenile Murderers -- California's Experience with Mandatory Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Our Prisons, Our Prisoners: Cruelty in Penal Practice -- Public Responsibility for Life in Prison -- Who Goes to Prison? -- The Purposes of Incarceration -- Penal Discipline, Control and Solitary Confinement -- Sexual Violence Inside -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART THREE: Relational Justice -- Introduction to Part Three

Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment. By paying close attention to the relational harms suffered by victims, this book develops a concept of relational justice for survivors, offenders and community. Relational justice looks beyond traditional rules of legal responsibility to include the social and emotional dimensions of human experience, opening the way for a more compassionate, effective and just response to crime. The book's chapters follow a journey from victim experiences of violence to community healing from violence. Early chapters examine the relational harms inflicted by the worst wrongs, the moral responsibility of wrongdoers and common mistakes made in judging wrongdoing. Particular attention is paid here to sexual violence. The book then moves to questions of just punishment: proper sentencing by judges, mandatory sentences approved by the public, and the realities of contemporary incarceration, focusing particularly on solitary confinement and sexual violence. In its remaining chapters, the book looks at changes brought by the victims' rights movement and victim needs that current law does not, and perhaps cannot meet. It then addresses possibilities for offender change and challenges for majority America in addressing race discrimination in criminal justice. The book concludes with a look at how individuals might live out the ideals of a greater--relational--justice.