ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book first explains the possible connection between the idea of justice and questions of social ordering and penality. Second, the issue of how justice can contribute to the rethinking of penal reform strategies. The analysis of the relationship between justice and inclusive participation written by Elizabeth Turner and Albert Dzur. Elizabeth Turner explicitly theorizes justice in terms of its association with practices of inclusive deliberation and makes such deliberation a core element of her proposal for remaking policing as an agent for addressing and repairing social harm. Albert Dzur makes a cogent case for extending forms of load-bearing participation and draws lessons from various sites communities, schools and prisons where such experiments in democracy have been enacted. The symposium has sought to initiate a range of public conversations about the idea of justice and might transform current penal cultures.
