Restorative and Responsive Human Services

Gale Burford is Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of Vermont, and currently a visiting scholar of restorative justice at Vermont Law School. Until his retirement from University of Vermont in 2014, he was Director of the University-State Child Welfare Training Partnership and Principal Investigator for the Vermont Community Justice Consortium. Gale first came to university teaching and research in 1981 at Memorial University of Newfoundland with experience as a foster and group home parent, caseworker and social work practitioner, trainer, supervisor, manager and senior administrator in services for children, young people and their families. He has taught, carried out research and program evaluation activities and consulted with programs internationally mainly on social work in statutory settings including child protection, youth justice and corrections. His best known research focuses on the use of family engagement and restorative approaches at the intersection of child protection and interpersonal violence. John Braithwaite is a professor at RegNet (the School of Regulation and Global Governance) at the Australian National University. Since 2004 he has led a comparative project called Peacebuilding Compared (see johnbraithwaite.com). He also works on business regulation and the crime problem. His best known research is on the ideas of responsive regulation and restorative justice. Braithwaite has been active in the peace movement, the politics of development, the social movement for restorative justice, the labor movement and the consumer movement, around these and other ideas for 50 years in Australia and internationally. Valerie Braithwaite is an interdisciplinary scholar and professor of regulatory studies in RegNet (School of Regulation and Global Governance), Australian National University. With a disciplinary background in psychology, her work focuses on how relationships of hope, trust and distrust ebb and flow between regulators and regulatees with often unexpected outcomes for society. Her work encompasses a diverse range of fields including human services. On behalf of the Australian Government, Braithwaite has conducted reviews of regulation in higher education and vocational education. Her most recent report “All Eyes on Quality” addresses how regulation can build learning communities and incentivize high performance and innovation.

1. Introduction to Restorative and Responsive Human Services, 2. Broadening the Applications of Responsive Regulation, 3. Families and Schools That Are Restorative and Responsive, 4. Burning Cars, Burning Hearts, and the Essence of Responsiveness, 5. Familiness and Responsiveness of Human Services: The Approach of Relational Sociology, 6. Families and Farmworkers: Social Justice in Responsive and Restorative Practices, 7. Children’s Hopes and Converging Family and State Networks of Regulation, 8. Black Mothers, Prison, and Foster Care: Rethinking Restorative Justice, 9. Responding Restoratively to Student Misconduct and Professional Regulation: The Case of Dalhousie Dentistry, 10. Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation in Higher Education: The Complex Web of Campus Sexual Assault Policy in the United States and a Restorative Alternative, 11. Responsive Alternatives to the Criminal Legal System in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence, 12. Responsive and Inclusive Health Governance through the Lens of Recovery Capital: A Case Study Based on Gambling Treatment, 13. Why Do We Exclude the Community in "Community Safety"?, 14. Learning from the Human Services: How to Build Better Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation