CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Critical Criminology, Nils Christie, The Offence
8 Apr 2018
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Context surrounding the emergence of restorative justice. Appreciate how restorative justice emerged as a reaction to the conservative new right. Outline the basic tenets and components of restorative justice and how they differ from traditional criminal justice. Critically evaluate the strengths, limitations, assumptions, and implications. A response to the conservative push of the new right starting in the 1980s. Recall: new right criminology focused on getting tough on crime and focusing on punishment. Restorative justice (along with critical criminology, to be discussed next week) constitutes a way of pushing back against the new right. Presented as an alternative, holistic view of crime and justice, based on indigenous forms of justice. Nils christie (1977) re: conflict as property. Conflict belongs to the parties involved in the conflict. The traditional criminal justice system constitutes a theft of the conflict by the state from the parties involved. For the cjs, the state takes over and owns the conflict.
