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From the editor‐in‐chief

Curt Griffiths and Gordon Bazemore deserve heartiest congratulations for this splendid Special Issue on Restorative Justice and Policing. Theirs is an international perspective which has helped Police Practice & Research: An International Journal (PPR) to advance the goal central to its mission, globalization of policing: “presentation of current and innovative police research, as well as operational and administrative practices from around the world.” Curt and Gordon bring to the global community of the PPR readers a comprehensive appreciation that “restorative justice is an international movement.” These two eminent and sensitive Guest Editors have also organized their issue to reflect yet another PPR goal, i.e., collaboration between research and practice. They have sought to present “a distinctive normative theory” through which restorative justice “operates” while fully serving the journal’s goal by drawing our readers’ attention as to how restorative justice “prioritizes new intervention strategies and practices.” Practice is a serious concern of PPR. It is gratifying to note the Guest Editors’ observation: