Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Compulsory Compassion -- 1 The Seductive Vision of Restorative Justice: Right- Relation, Reciprocity, Healing, and Repair -- 2 "Essentially and Only a Matter of Love": Justice and the Teachableness of Universal Love -- 3 Three Precarious Pillars of Restorative Optimism -- 4 Sentimental Justice: The Unearned Emotions of Restorative Catharsis -- 5 "Lovemaking Is Justice-Making": The Idealization of Eros and the Eroticization of Justice -- 6 Compulsory Compassion: Justice, Fellow- Feeling, and the Restorative Encounter -- Epilogue: Restorative Utopias - "The Fire with Which We Must Play"? -- Notes -- References -- Index.