The adventure of the institutionalisation
                    of restorative justice in Belgium

Lemonne, Anne

doi:10.5553/ijrj/258908912018001002004

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“…However, our interviewees were also acutely aware of the detrimental co-opting effects of involving state institutions in the development of RJ, recalling the ‘purist’ (McCold, 2000) critique to the institutionalisation of RJ, particularly in its most radical expression (Maglione, 2020a). This nuanced position also resonates with empirical research findings generated in Europe and beyond, for example, Belgium (Lemonne, 2018), Australia (Suzuki and Wood, 2017) and Canada (Asadullah and Morrison, 2021), which show how the institutionalisation of RJ allows a significant growth in terms of provision while threatening the normative integrity of RJ, for instance, ‘instrumentalising’ victims’ needs to offenders’ rehabilitation. This threat entails the possibility of bending restorative values to criminal justice aims (cf.…”

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Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives

Butler

Maglione

Buchan

2022

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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While in some European and extra-European countries the incorporation of restorative justice into policy frameworks is a dated and widely studied phenomenon, in others it is a more recent and scarcely researched process. The Scottish Government is making renewed efforts to institutionalise restorative justice including the ambitious goal of making adult restorative justice available nationwide by 2023. In this article, we analyse the consequences of these recent attempts, addressing a gap in knowledge on adult restorative justice in Scotland. We gathered views from justice professionals ( n = 17), involved in organising and delivering adult restorative justice, on the implementation of the policy and the future of Scottish restorative justice. Findings show that participants support expanding restorative justice services, but are sceptical about the Scottish Government’s approach. They advocate for a coordinated but locally sensitive model of restorative justice development, to some extent challenging the stark opposition between ‘purist’ and ‘maximalist’ approaches to the expansion of restorative justice. These findings generate evidence to critically assess Scottish restorative justice policy and its implementation, while drawing implications for the development of restorative justice across Europe.

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confidence: 62%

“…This threat entails the possibility of bending restorative values to criminal justice aims (cf. Lemonne, 2018; Suzuki and Wood, 2017) or standardising top-down the provision (cf. Asadullah and Morrison, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%