Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz
Co-Director, MCC Office on Justice and Peacebuilding formerly, MCC Office on Crime and Justice, 1994-current. Provides consulting and training for agencies seeking to implement programs of restorative justice including Victim Offender Mediation/Conferencing and restorative discipline in schools. Consultant/Facilitator, 2008-current Federal Defense Habeas Corpus Division, Phoenix, Arizona and Atlanta, Georgia. Facilitating face-to-face dialogue with crime victims and death row inmates in three federal death penalty cases.
Publications
“What Will Happen to Me?” Amstutz, Lorraine Stutzman and Zehr, Howard, 2011. Good Books, Intercourse, PA.
The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, Amstutz, Lorraine Stutzman, 2009. Good Books, Intercourse, PA .
Conflict Transformation and Restorative Justice Manual: Foundations and Skills for Mediation and Facilitation. Co-Editor/Author, MCC Office on Justice and Peacebuilding, Akron, PA, 2008.
The Little of Restorative Discipline for Schools, Amstutz, Lorraine Stutzman and Mullet, Judy, Good Books, Intercourse, PA, 2005.
Critical Issues in Restorative Justice, Zehr, Howard and Toews, Barb, 2004. Chapter entitled “What is the relationship between victim service organizations and restorative justice”. Criminal Justice Press, 2004.
Restorative Justice. Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics, “Peace and War” issue. Baylor University, Waco, TX. July, 2004.
Making Peace with Conflict: Practical Skills for Conflict Transformation, Ressler, Lawrence and
Schrock-Shenk, Carolyn, editors. Herald Press, Scottdale, PA, 1999. Chapter entitled, “Conflict in the Nuclear Family” co-authored with Jim Stutzman Amstutz.
Victim Offender Conferencing in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System, a 150-page curriculum for programs developing a victim offender conferencing program, 1996, co-authored with Howard Zehr.
Victim Services and VOM Programs: Can They Work Together? VOMA Connections, Autumn/Winter, 1999, Number 4, co-authored with Mary Achilles, Victim Advocate for Pennsyvlania. Article also appeared in “Conciliation Quarterly” and “Network of Victim Assistance - NOVA” Newsletter.
Co-compiled issue of “Sustaining the Edge of Restorative Justice”, Conciliation Quarterly, Summer, 2001, Vol. 20, No. 3.
Compiled “Beyond Punishment: Restorative Discipline in Schools” Conciliation Quarterly, Spring, 2000, Vol. 19, No. 2, a publication of the MCC U.S. Mennonite Conciliation Service. Mediating in different contexts: Victim Offender Mediation”, Track Two, Vol. 7,
No. 1, April, 1998.
