Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Introduction : "The good" can overcome "the bad" / Natti Ronel and Dana Segev -- How can criminology (and victimology) become positive? / Natti Ronel -- The effect of "the good" and the self-centeredness barrier : Positive criminology in the lived reality of youth at risk / Ben Zvi Tahel and Haimoff-Ayali Ronit -- Positive Criminology, Positive Criminal Justice? / Fergus McNeill -- Strengths-Based Restorative Approaches to Reentry : The Evolution of Creative Restitution, Reintegration and Destigmitization / Shadd Maruna and Thomas P. LeBel -- Synergizing Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Positive Criminology / Tali Gal and David B. Wexler -- Positive Criminology and Therapeutic Jurisprudence : Relevant Techniques for Defense Lawyers / Dana Segev -- Peacemaking / Hal Pepinsky -- Israel's Juvenile Probation Service from the perspective of positive criminology : A critical review / Ety Elisah -- Posttraumatic growth and positive victimology : The case of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women who resided in a shelter / Mally Shechory-Bitton and Natti Ronel -- Restorative Justice and Domestic Violence : A view from a positive victimological perspective / Nadia Wager -- Irrational Coping Theory and Positive Criminology : A Frame Work to Protect Victims of Cyber Crime / Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar -- Between Secondary Victimization and Positive Victimology : The Case of Crime Victims' Right of Privacy / Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg and Dana Pugach -- Challenges of Post-conflict Reintegration of Former Girl Soldiers / Janice Joseph -- Programs for female prisoners and positive criminology and victimology : The case of Serbia / Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic and Sanja Copic -- Epilogue : Present to Future : A Positive Direction for Criminology? /John Fuller.

Applied positive criminology : Restorative reentry and transition planning circles for incarcerated people and their loved ones / Lorenn Walker -- The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation : Working Positively with Sexual Offenders / Chi Meng Chu and Tony Ward -- Hotel Prison Check-out -- Hotel Pardon Check-in / Jan De Cock -- Long-term recovery from addiction: criminal justice involvement and positive criminology? / David Best and Elizabeth Aston -- Recovery as a social phenomenon : What is the role of the community in supporting and enabling recovery? / David Best, Karen Bird and Lucy Hunton -- Application of Positive Criminology in the 12-Step Program / Gila Chen and Keren Gueta -- "Pulling Myself up by the Bootstraps" : Self-change of Addictive Behaviors from the Perspective of Positive Criminology / Keren Gueta and Gila Chen -- Positive Victimology : A contemporary approach or more of the same? / Yaara Toren --