Course overview

The Masters in Restorative Justice programme will encompass all of the following:

• the key ideas and values of restorative justice
• the historical development of restorative justice and its range of contemporary applications
• the relationship of restorative justice to traditional conceptions of criminal justice
• the nature of the key practices of restorative justice, such as conferencing, victim-offender mediation and circle processes
• the knowledge and skills required to evaluate critically the ideas and practices of restorative justice
• the aims and methods of research into restorative justice
• what we know about the effects of restorative justice

Subjects you will study

You will study all of these modules (see Course Structure for more detail) in order to complete the MA.

• Crime, Justice and Punishment
• International Restorative Processes
• Peacemaking Criminology
• Principles of Restorative Justice
• Research Skills for Restorative Justice
• Victims, Rights and Justice
• Plus a Dissertation in the final year