ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the origins of peacemaking criminology, assess both its theoretical logic and its empirical support. It suggests how this perspective might be integrated further into the criminal justice system as an effort to enhance humane and effective rehabilitative treatment, alternative justice processing and the establishment of safer communities where citizens are confident in the justice system. The chapter observes some favorable and unfavorable reactions that have been commonly expressed about peacemaking criminology and then shows how this perspective has emerged upon the development of three major traditions. These intellectual traditions are the religious and humanist, the feminist, and the critical. The chapter explores these major traditions of peacemaking criminology. It identifies core concepts and propositions of peacemaking criminology that might be investigated within future criminological research. The chapter discusses some promising empirical support of peacemaking criminology's stance against nonviolence.
