Restorative Justice in Severe Times

IF 0.4 Q2 Social Sciences New Criminal Law Review Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI:10.1525/nclr.2019.22.4.618
L. Walgrave
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Restorative justice is based on mutual respect and inclusion through dialogue. This approach may be threatened in current severe times, characterized by rampant individualism and mutual distrust. In crime and justice issues, exclusion and punishment are pushing away approaches based on inclusion and persuasion. In such a socio-cultural climate, restorative justice is threatened indeed to being co-opted as an extension to the predominant punitive and controlling tendency. However, countervailing forces persist in social life, social practice, and in the arts. A social-scientific tendency is also aware of its social responsibility and seeks to serve the quality of social life based on more mutual respect, solidarity, and taking active responsibility. Restorative justice can be a part of these countervailing forces, if it safeguards its roots in this socio-ethical groundstream. It may be a spearhead of what we can call a “criminology of trust,” a criminology that understands that all policy regarding crime and justice issues must be grounded in respect, inclusion, and persuasion. Particularly, restorative justice’s contribution to this is twofold. First, it offers a realistic and more positive alternative to detrimental punitiveness. Second, it contributes to de-dramatizing and demystifying the image of crime and criminals to more realistic dimensions (which are in themselves serious enough).
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严峻时期的恢复性司法
恢复性司法的基础是通过对话相互尊重和包容。在当前以猖獗的个人主义和相互不信任为特征的严峻时期,这种做法可能受到威胁。在犯罪和司法问题上,排斥和惩罚正在推翻以包容和说服为基础的方法。在这样一种社会文化气候下,恢复性司法确实受到威胁,可能被作为主要的惩罚和控制倾向的延伸。然而,在社会生活、社会实践和艺术中,反作用力依然存在。社会科学倾向也意识到它的社会责任,并寻求在更加相互尊重、团结和积极负责的基础上为社会生活质量服务。恢复性司法可以成为这些对抗力量的一部分,如果它能保护其在这一社会伦理基础上的根基。它可能是我们所谓的“信任犯罪学”的先锋,这种犯罪学理解所有关于犯罪和司法问题的政策都必须建立在尊重、包容和说服的基础上。特别是,恢复性司法在这方面的贡献是双重的。首先,它为有害的惩罚提供了一种更现实、更积极的替代方案。其次,它有助于将犯罪和罪犯的形象去戏剧化和去神秘化到更现实的层面(这些层面本身就足够严肃)。
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期刊介绍: Focused on examinations of crime and punishment in domestic, transnational, and international contexts, New Criminal Law Review provides timely, innovative commentary and in-depth scholarly analyses on a wide range of criminal law topics. The journal encourages a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches and is a crucial resource for criminal law professionals in both academia and the criminal justice system. The journal publishes thematic forum sections and special issues, full-length peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, and occasional correspondence.
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