SOCI-325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deinstitutionalisation
28 Jan 2020
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History of restorative justice: abolitionist, victim"s rights, deinstitutionalization. Instead of locking individuals up who have various mental health issues in asylums. Taking care of them and living with them in the community. Without care, being abandoned and forgotten by the community and the state, they may end up in the criminal justice system. Caring for mental health and providing services: spiritual. Practicing restorative justice with a way that lines up with someone"s religious beliefs. All sorts of different religious perspectives rj links up to their religious beliefs and texts. Restorative justice is linked to indigenous cultures and traditions. Connection to indigenous cultures is used rhetorically by social justice advocates in a particular way to convince people rj is good. Saying this is how rj was originally practiced. There"s a need to be cautious about those claims. Practices of the past through the lens of the present.
