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By Gerry Johnstone
Restorative justice is among the such a lot pointed out themes within the box of felony justice, more and more emphasised with regards to younger offenders. Many see it additionally as a paradigm shift in felony justice, clear of dominant punitive and healing paradigms, emphasizing as an alternative the reintegration of offenders and power offenders into their groups. regardless of its excessive profile, the phenomenon of restorative justice is little understood. This ebook addresses this factor by way of offering an authoritative creation to the tips and ideas of restorative justice, contemplating arguments either for and opposed to its use. Restorative Justice may be crucial interpreting for either scholars and practitioners, and a key contribution to the restorative justice debate.
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Restorative justice: ideas, values, debates
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Jacob 1977: 46–7) In roughly the same era, European princes began to think of public displays of punitive power as a useful way of symbolizing their political power (which was in reality still weak) and hence as useful for their centralizing project (Braithwaite 1999b: 1730; cf. Foucault 1977). As Barnett (1977: 285–6) puts it: ‘The king abandoned the composition system for the system of punishment because punishment struck terror in the hearts of the people, and this served to inspire awe for the power of the king and state’.
G. offenders, police officers, members of the community) – victims tend to be the least satisfied with it (Braithwaite 1999a: 20–6). Once more, however, the main problem with such ‘hard’ evidence is that, because of the complexity of the issue, it is nowhere near as conclusive as it is often claimed to be. Crucially, it is virtually impossible to disentangle the multitude of variables which together determine how satisfied people are with any social service. Victim satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the handling of their case is probably more affected by their perception of how helpful and efficient particular individuals and arrangements are, than it is by the model employed.
In some cases they broke down in tears. (Tendler 1997) 21 Restorative Justice: ideas, values, debates It is important to clarify how proponents of restorative justice attempt to support the claim that it outperforms punishment (and treatment) as a method of preventing reoffending. Apart from presenting anecdotes which illustrate spectacular successes, the most usual way is to offer statistical evidence from experimental studies, as in the quotation above. However, as Braithwaite (1999a) acknowledges, such evidence needs to be interpreted very carefully.