The international development of restorative justice

Miers, David

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“…There have been a number of evaluations of different models of Restorative Justice in schools, both in England and overseas (Drewery 2004, McGrath 2004, Cameron and Thorsborne, 1999, Smith and Hennessy, 1999, Marsh and Crowe, 1998. These evaluations have employed a range of methodologies and although some of these evaluations have been criticised for being less than rigorous (Miers, 2001), there has been, nonetheless, quite widespread support for Restorative Justice in schools. 'We've got the best morale we've ever had… people feel good about themselves, and the children seem to be happier.…”

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“…There has been a huge upsurge of interest in Restorative Justice in recent years in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA as well as in Europe and the UK. This has taken different forms in different countries, depending on existing legal frameworks and contexts, but nearly all of the initiatives address issues in both adult and youth offending (Miers, 2001). For most writers on Restorative Justice, the basic tenets centre on the importance of repairing harm and restoring relationships.…”

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‘I was dead restorative today’: from restorative justice to restorative approaches in school

McCluskey

Lloyd

Stead

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Cambridge Journal of Education

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This paper explores definitions and understandings of Restorative Practices in education. It offers a critique of current theoretical models of Restorative Justice originally derived from the criminal justice system, and now becoming popular in educational settings. It questions the appropriateness of these concepts as they are being introduced to schools in parts of the UK and refers to a recent Scottish Executive funded pilot initiative to implement Restorative Practices in schools. The paper then reflects on some findings from the evaluation of this pilot project, outlines a new notion of Restorative Approaches and suggests that this broader conceptualisation may offer an important way in which to promote social justice in education and to reassess the importance and inevitability of conflicting social interaction and structures inherent in schools as complex social institutions.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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‘I was dead restorative today’: from restorative justice to restorative approaches in school

McCluskey

Lloyd

Stead

et al. 2008

Cambridge Journal of Education

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“…Most academic and policy entrepreneur research speaks highly of such an approach in impacting on re-offending (particularly for less serious violent offenders) and on ensuring that both victim and offender are the key participants and decision-makers in determining any future action (Morris and Maxwell, 2001;Miers, 2001;Bazemore and Walgrave, 1999 (Blagg, 1997). In general the danger remains that any form of compulsory restoration may degenerate into a ceremony of public shaming and degradation, particularly when it operates within systems of justice that are driven by punitive, exclusionary and coercive values and whose primary intent is the infliction of further harm (as currently seems to be case in England and Wales and the US)..…”

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The globalization of crime control—the case of youth and juvenile justice

Muncie

2005

Theoretical Criminology

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The concept of globalisation has gradually permeated criminology, but more so as applied to transnational organised crime, international terrorism and policing than in addressing processes of criminal justice reform. So how useful is it in understanding contemporary transformations in systems of youth and juvenile justice? Until the 1970s juvenile justice, was dominated by an entrenched series of debates circulating around the often-nebulous opposition of welfare and punishment. Since then neoliberal assaults on the social logics of the welfare state and public provision, particularly in Britain, USA, Canada and Australasia, have brought profound shifts in economic, social and political relations associated with the 'free market'. In their wake have emerged a renewed penalisation of young people and an emphasis on enforcing individual, family and community responsibility. Simultaneously many jurisdictions worldwide have begun to experiment with restorative justice and the prospect of rehabilitation through mediation. Widely ratified international directives, epitomised by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, have also begun to stress the importance of incorporating a rights consciousness into juvenile justice reform. These diverse trajectories in retribution, responsibility, restoration and rights have created a particularly complex contemporary landscape of youth governance. The concept of globalisation draws attention to the impact that these competing transformations have had on processes of policy and legal convergence. Based on a wide range of bibliographic and web resources, this article assesses the extent to which it is now possible to talk of a global juvenile/youth justice or whether persistent national and local divergences, together with the contradictions of contemporary reform, preclude any aspiration for the delivery of a universal and consensual product.

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“…Other high-profile examples of`non-punitive' policy transfer to which we might draw attention include, for example, cross-national policy learning regarding harm-reduction approaches to substance misuse, 73`p ublic health' as opposed to enforcement-based approaches to violence reduction, 74 the development of positive alternatives to custody, 75 the`Justice Reinvestment' movement, 76 and the international spread of restorative justice. 77 These examples no doubt provide plentiful evidence of the problems, pitfalls, and unintended effects associated with policy mobility generally, but they are an important reminder that there is nothing inherently punitive or authoritarian about cross-national policy transfer in crime control.…”

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Researching cross-national policy mobilities in crime control

Jones

Blaustein

Newburn

2019

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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This article examines the contribution of scholarly work on`policy transfer' and related concepts to our knowledge of how far, and in what ways, particular policy`models' of security and justice travel across national boundaries, and what might explain this phenomenon. The article begins by summarizing the key findings of extant empirical studies of cross-national policy movement in the fields of crime, security, and justice. It then considers the normative dimension to debates about policy transfer, observing that much of the literature adopts a pessimistic position about the problematic nature of international policy movement in security and justice, and discusses some of the reasons for such pessimism. The article then reflects on ways in which normative principles could be applied to considerations of prospective policy transfer, and the implications for the broader possibilities for`progressive' policy transfer in relation to crime, security, and justice.In security and justice, as with other areas of public policy, it often appears that the world is getting smaller. The increasingly transnational nature of social problems and their associated public policy responses has been widely recognized in contemporary scholarly analysis, not least within research on crime control, security, and justice. 1 Criminologists and socio-legal scholars have become particularly interested in`extra-jurisdictional' influences that shape policies, and in the potential value of cross-national comparative research in helping us to understand such phenomena. In relation to crime S12

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The international development of restorative justice

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‘I was dead restorative today’: from restorative justice to restorative approaches in school

‘I was dead restorative today’: from restorative justice to restorative approaches in school

The globalization of crime control—the case of youth and juvenile justice

Researching cross-national policy mobilities in crime control

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