CC211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Neoliberalism, United States House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform
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Ways in which rj is/should be political: exists within a political context, is transformative, must mobilize its politics. May be seen by some as a threat to the status quo social movements are: Networks of informal interactions between a plurality of individuals, groups and or/organization engaged in political or cultural conflicts, on the basis of shared collective identities. Civil society is when people get together in order to affect change. Restorative justice is a diverse collection of likeminded individuals, part of civil society. Rj is a process that asks and seeks answers to fundamental questions: Can rj work in cooperation with the formal criminal justice system. Transformative politics and the obligations it puts on rj: Constantly assess the political context within which rj operates. Rj should nuture its own form of governance. Promotes a narrow range of principals such as: The triumph of individual responsibility over traditional liberal concept of public good.