The Role of Community in Restorative Justice

Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context

“…This analysis supports, from a different perspective, a range of available studies which have come to similar conclusions(Rosenblatt, 2015;Shpungin, 2014;Van Dijk, 2009).…”

“…Similar to the idealised versions of the victim and offender, the legal/policy representation of the community is only partially coinciding with the findings of recent empirical studies on how this actor is actually shaped in RJ practices (e.g. the 'community's fusional character is empirically controversial) (Rosenblatt, 2015).…”

“…Building upon a recent body of work (Maglione, 2016;Maglione, 2017), this study offers a recognition and comparison of the most wide-ranging descriptions, implicit assumptions and typified images of the 'victim', 'offender' and 'community' within policy documents and legal statutes on restorative justice (RJ), produced in England andWales between 1985 and2015. Additionally, the research sketches out a historical contextualization of those normative representations. The questions which drive this study are: which images of the crime stakeholders are featured in the legal and policy regulations on RJ?…”

Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws

“…The amount of studies on the 'community' in restorative justice (RJ) has become extensive (Bolivar 2012;Crawford 2003;Dzur 2003;Dzur and Olson 2004;McCold 1996McCold , 2004Pavlich 2001Pavlich , 2004Richards 2014;Rossner and Bruce 2016;Rosenblatt 2015;Vanfraechem 2007;Walgrave 2002;Weisberg 2003;Wood 2015), especially if compared to the (limited) number of works which focus specifically on the 'victim' and the 'offender' in RJ (Bolivar 2010;Green 2007;Maglione 2016;Pemberton et al 2007;Van Dijk 2009). It seems that whilst RJ scholars, advocates and practitioners understand the latter labels as intuitive and taken for granted, the 'community' needs additional clarification.…”

Community Participation in Restorative Justice: Rituals, Reintegration, and Quasi-Professionalization

“…This raises a number of normative and pragmatic tensions around the involvement of lay people into criminal justice regimes that are increasingly bureaucratised, formalised, and professionalized (Crawford, 2004;Dzur & Olsen, 2004;Garland, 2001). Despite the centrality of community involvement to RJ, there is not a great deal of scholarship on how this ideal translates into practice (Rosenblatt 2015). This paper contributes to this debate.…”