2011
DOI: 10.2298/tem1101005a
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Restorative justice and the active victim: Exploring the concept of empowerment

Abstract: This paper departs from the observation that the victim image leading public discourse has transformed in recent years: increasingly victims reject the traditional victim label implying helplessness and dependency to adopt the image of the emancipated victim that wishes to participate in the criminal proceedings. Restorative justice at first sight provides an answer to these emancipated victims’ wishes, offering them participation in criminal proceedings. Yet, using the concept of empowerment as an examp… Show more

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“…Women empowerment and gender equality have been set as effective ways to reduce poverty, hunger, and disease, and also to stimulate sustainable development (Economic Commission for Africa, 2008). In addition, various research have been conducted on empowerment, focusing on different perspectives, such as psychological empowerment (Hunter, Jason & Keys, 2012), social empowerment (Bishnoi, Mehta, Godata & Sethi, 2012), sexuality (Gill, 2012), restorative justice (Aertsen, Abolívar, De Mesmaecker & Lauwers, 2011), labor education (Akinsanya, 2011), finance (Arora & Meenu, 2011) and tested on different cultures, such as Badran (2010) on Egyptians, Akinsanya (2011) on Africans, Daher (2012) on Lebanese, while Bhattacharya and Banerjee (2012) and Bishnoi, Mehta, Godata and Sethi (2012) focused on Indians. Bhattacharya and Banerjee (2012) have tested the empowerment model with three dimensionshealth, knowledge, and autonomy, in which empowerment is viewed as capability-enhancement.…”
Section: Women Empowermentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Women empowerment and gender equality have been set as effective ways to reduce poverty, hunger, and disease, and also to stimulate sustainable development (Economic Commission for Africa, 2008). In addition, various research have been conducted on empowerment, focusing on different perspectives, such as psychological empowerment (Hunter, Jason & Keys, 2012), social empowerment (Bishnoi, Mehta, Godata & Sethi, 2012), sexuality (Gill, 2012), restorative justice (Aertsen, Abolívar, De Mesmaecker & Lauwers, 2011), labor education (Akinsanya, 2011), finance (Arora & Meenu, 2011) and tested on different cultures, such as Badran (2010) on Egyptians, Akinsanya (2011) on Africans, Daher (2012) on Lebanese, while Bhattacharya and Banerjee (2012) and Bishnoi, Mehta, Godata and Sethi (2012) focused on Indians. Bhattacharya and Banerjee (2012) have tested the empowerment model with three dimensionshealth, knowledge, and autonomy, in which empowerment is viewed as capability-enhancement.…”
Section: Women Empowermentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pendekatan keadilan restoratif pada dasarnya menjadi tujuan dalam sistem peradilan pidana untuk melakukan perbaikan terhadap sistem peradilan pidana pada beberapa hal, yakni: Pertama, sistem melibatkan korban dalam sistem peradilan pidana yang sampai dengan saat ini masih sangat minim; kedua, mengurangi dan bahkan menghilangkan konflik antara pelaku, korban, dan masyarakat; ketiga proses keadilan restoratif harus mengurangi akibat dari tindak pidana yang mengakibatkan ketidakberdayaan bagi korban dan masyarakan dan memberikan perbaikan pada masalah pokoknya (Aertsen, 2011).…”
Section: Konsep Keadilan Restoratifunclassified
“…That is why they value the symbolic effect of justice procedures in terms of regaining respect and dignity more than possible (material) compensation. This means that if restorative justice aims to be a better and more direct way of serving the needs of victims than retributive justice, we need to conceptualise restorative justice procedures primarily in terms of empowerment, self-respect and building interpersonal dignity (Aertsen, Bolívar, De Mesmaecker & Lauwers 2011). In this way, restorative justice can be regarded as a kind of 'reversed retribution' (Walgrave, 2004(Walgrave, /2010, because it directs the mechanism of requital ('paying-back') and compensation directly to the victim who has been wronged instead of taking the inefficient detour of degrading and incapacitating the offender, a detour that often amounts to nothing more than adding violence to violence.…”
Section: Better Ways Of Serving the Goals Of Retributionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Victims in restorative practices appear to be willing to engage themselves in order to contribute to a safer society and even help the offender, or offer him forgiveness, as well work on their own healing process (Armour & Umbreit, 2006). Particularly, the victim's engagement in such a role as social actor, which goes beyond the personal level of their case, seems to be conducive to true empowerment as it strengthens social dignity and selfesteem (Aertsen et al, 2011).…”
Section: Facing the Community: Restoring Facementioning
confidence: 99%