CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Victimology, Assault Causing Bodily Harm, Social Control
19 Apr 2018
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Week 12 alternative responses and future directions. There is not a singular agreed upon definition restorative justice. Overall, rj is seen as an alternate modality of doing justice that de-emphasizes punishment in favour of the reparation of harms within a context of community support and accountability for both the person harmed and the wrongdoer. Restorative justice is a relatively new perspective with foundations in a social movement critical of the conservativism and punitiveness of the last two decades. Rj is a reparative conceptualization of doing justice. There are debates about how restorative justice is best conceptualized, with three conceptions at the forefront of discussions (aertsen, 2013: the encounter, the outcome, the transformative perspectives, the encounter perspective. The focus is on the engagement and mode of deliberation among stakeholders. Restorative justice is rooted in the respectful value based encounter, where shared community values such as respect, equality and inclusion are modelled.
