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The Psychology of Restorative Justice: Creating the Inner and Outer Space for Change – An Observation of Restorative Justice Meetings
No full textRestorative policing for the 21st century: historical lessons for future practice
No full textRestorative policing has experienced somewhat of a tumultuous journey within the international criminal justice landscape. The practice first emerged in Wagga Wagga, Australia in the early 1990s where its architects drew inspiration from both the New Zealand conferencing system and John Braithwaite’s theory of reintegrative shaming. This chapter argues that the inspiring results of that pilot project have not been replicated elsewhere and proceeds to interrogate the reasons for this. The chapter contributes to the Handbook’s objectives by making two key arguments. The first is that the operationalisation of restorative justice within contemporary policing environments, with the pressures of austerity and public accountability, naturally lends itself to quantity over quality resolutions. The second is that both the champions and evaluators of contemporary restorative policing schemes have prioritised learning from failure over success. If we return to the origins of the restorative policing model, we learn that good practice takes time, investment and community-police partnerships. Only once these internal resources are secured can true restorative policing that benefits the community take place. Limits to that realisation come from surprising quarters and raise some uncomfortable questions about the state of the field, if restorative policing was ‘allowed’ to work
Preface: Rights and Restoration
No full textThe human rights movement is an older and stronger global movement than the social movement for restorative justice, and so are the peace movement, the women's movement, indigenous rights movements, the children's rights movement, the animal rights movement, and the environmental movement. Creatively conceived, these are all related social movements against domination and arbitrary power, and advocates of humbling power. The arbitrary powers that must be humbled include overreaching state power, corporate power, institutions that are hegemonically male, prisons, and militaries. These diverse movements differentially focus on these sources of power
"Design for Empathy" – Exploring the Potential of Participatory Design for Fostering Restorative Values and Contributing to Restorative Process
No full textThis co-authored chapter is an output of the "Design Thinking for Prison Industries – an Action Research Project to Exchange Tools/ Methodologies and Processes from Design with Prison Industries In London and Ahmedabad to Help Build Inmate Resilience”. Lorraine Gamman is the PI of this collaborative project with the National Institute of Design (NID) India, Ahmedabad and HMP Thameside prisons. It commenced in January 2015 and was completed March 2016. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Restorative justice and the right to move on: toward deinstitutionalising the stigma of a criminal conviction
No full textMoves toward restorative justice have tried to reclaim the resolution of conflicts from the exclusive grasp of the state. While much has been achieved in developing new ways of theorising and resolving disputes the consequences of acquiring a criminal record that is retained and deployed by the state have been largely overlooked. In this chapter the authors explore the emergence of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) in England and Wales and the ways in which the widespread use of criminal records compromises the rights of people to be considered free from the stigma of a criminal conviction. Contemporary developments in legislation and policy regarding the status of criminal convictions are considered and their implications for young people and those who work with them. The authors argue that the principles and practice of restorative justice must address these elements of permanent and increasingly active intrusive scrutiny by the state
Foreword: Reconstructing Restorative Justice Philosophy
No full textNo one will be able to read this book without wishing they were there for the journey that gave it birth. Rich outcomes are enabled by richness of process. This book succeeds in drawing us into the journey of its travellers. The authors gathered at the Greek island of Skopelos to engage with a Greek Symposium method. The Symposium ethos is to discover deep relationships through love for thinking and the beauty of the mind. As Theo Gavrielides explains in Chapter I, restorative justice is also an ethos, 'a way of living ... a new approach to life'. A unity of method and subject is evocative in this book, as is its contestation (as in the Maglione chapter). How can we but be drawn to a process that takes the participants from one location to another looking out on the Aegean Sea and the unspoilt natural beauty of Skopelos, from monastery to monastery, to the patio of a Minoan villa, complete with serene Orphic Hymn~
Collapsing the labels ‘victim’ and ‘offender’ in the Victims’ Directive and the paradox of restorative justice
No full textLaws do not exist in a vacuum. They are born and contextualised within the given society that they are meant to regulate. In November 2015, the Victims’ Directive came into force to strengthen the position of the victim in criminal proceedings. Within this regional law, restorative justice is regulated so that it is provided safely, consistently and according to standards. Here, the author identifies a paradox. One of the key reasons that restorative justice resurfaced was to empower all those involved in harm to face what happened and collectively find a way forward. Restorative practices have so far been dominated by Christie's understanding of the ‘ideal victim’ versus the big bad offender. This paper attempts to challenge this approach by arguing that as equal parties in conflict and harm, the labels of ‘victim’ and ‘offender’ must be reconsidered if the benefits of restorative justice are to be fully enjoyed. Abolitionism, however, is not the way forward. As the restorative justice movement leaves the era of innovation and enters the new reality of integration, the author proposes a new restorative justice paradigm of co-existence with existing criminal justice priorities
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