A talk with Daniel Van Ness

Daniel Van Ness has worked in restorative justice for 35 years with Prison Fellow‐ ship (USA) and then with Prison Fellowship International. He led the design team that created the Sycamore Tree Project, a victim-offender programme currently in place in prisons in 34 countries. He helped draft the UN Declaration of Basic Prin‐ ciples on the Use of Restorative Justice Programmes in Criminal Matters, endorsed in 2002 by the Economic and Social Council. He is the author of Crime and its victims (Van Ness, 1986), Restoring justice: an introduction to restorative justice (5th ed.) (Van Ness & Strong, 2014) and co-editor of the Handbook of restorative justice (Johnstone & Van Ness, 2007).