{"title":"Restorative Justice in Hong Kong — a Research Study on the Struggle Between Retribution and Restoration","authors":"Wendy Lui","doi":"10.1007/s11417-022-09380-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Abstract\n</h2><div><p>Hong Kong has been a place where the rule of law is upheld as the cornerstone of the legal system, and the notion of rule of law is based very much on retributory justice — a system where defendants are given sufficient due process protection, and proportionate punishment is levied in a legal sense. In the criminal prosecution process, restorative justice exists in a peripheral way in the form of victim offender mediation. Though named as a form of mediation, the practice of restorative justice has been receiving much lesser attention when the use of mediation in the civil justice system has enjoyed huge growth in the territory. This article examines how the promotion of mediation in Hong Kong has supported potential development of restorative justice through the well-established pool of professionals, lawyers and helping professionals included, in the field.</p></div></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"18 2","pages":"231 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asian Journal of Criminology","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11417-022-09380-9","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hong Kong has been a place where the rule of law is upheld as the cornerstone of the legal system, and the notion of rule of law is based very much on retributory justice — a system where defendants are given sufficient due process protection, and proportionate punishment is levied in a legal sense. In the criminal prosecution process, restorative justice exists in a peripheral way in the form of victim offender mediation. Though named as a form of mediation, the practice of restorative justice has been receiving much lesser attention when the use of mediation in the civil justice system has enjoyed huge growth in the territory. This article examines how the promotion of mediation in Hong Kong has supported potential development of restorative justice through the well-established pool of professionals, lawyers and helping professionals included, in the field.
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Electronic submission now possible! Please see the Instructions for Authors. For general information about this new journal please contact the publisher at [welmoed.spahr@springer.com] The Asian Journal of Criminology aims to advance the study of criminology and criminal justice in Asia, to promote evidence-based public policy in crime prevention, and to promote comparative studies about crime and criminal justice. The Journal provides a platform for criminologists, policymakers, and practitioners and welcomes manuscripts relating to crime, crime prevention, criminal law, medico-legal topics and the administration of criminal justice in Asian countries. The Journal especially encourages theoretical and methodological papers with an emphasis on evidence-based, empirical research addressing crime in Asian contexts. It seeks to publish research arising from a broad variety of methodological traditions, including quantitative, qualitative, historical, and comparative methods. The Journal fosters a multi-disciplinary focus and welcomes manuscripts from a variety of disciplines, including criminology, criminal justice, law, sociology, psychology, forensic science, social work, urban studies, history, and geography.
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