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10 Theoretical Criminology 5 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/thcr10 and id is 1 raw text is: Theoretical Criminology Q 2006 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. www.sagepublications.com Vol. 10(1): 5-7; 1362-4806 DOI: 10.1177/1362480606060127 Introduction KIMBERLY J. COOK, KATHLEEN DALY AND JULIE STUBBS University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA, Griffith University, Australia and University of Sydney, Australia This Special Issue of Theoretical Criminology emerged from our interests to clarify and expand feminist debates on restorative justice. Virtually all feminist analyses of restorative justice have centred on its appropriateness for partner, family or sexual violence. A Special Issue of Violence against Women (2005) is devoted to restorative justice and intimate or gendered violence. Such a focus is important, of course, especially in light of the many decades of feminist activism and research concerning violence against women and children. At the same time, such a focus may limit debate to a particular set of theoretical, empirical and political problems. Our goals for this Special Issue are to bring new empirical analyses to bear on extant debates, to identify new areas of feminist engagement with restorative justice and to bring an international and comparative dimension to theory and research. We were especially interested to include analyses that address both gender and race. There is frequent reference in the literature to the (presumed) interests of Indigenous peoples in restorative justice, but little examination of Indigenous women's perspectives. We have chosen to give particular emphasis to the relationship of restorative justice to Indigenous justice, and to elucidate debates among and between Indige- nous and non-Indigenous women recognizing the significance of different local and national contexts. Thus, the contributing authors are from Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand and the United States. Feminist engagement with new justice forms confronts a far more complex field of theory, research and politics than it did two decades ago when Carol Gilligan identified a 'different voice' of justice, a female voice that relies upon an 'ethic of care' in moral reasoning in contrast to a male 5

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