A critical view on the role of community in restorative processes
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https://doi.org/10.15448/2177-6784.2014.1.16915Keywords:
Restorative Justice. Community. Community Involvement. Community Justice.Abstract
Restorative justice’s appeals to community sit within a wider ‘late modern’ criminal justice landscape where the limitations of the state’s capacity to control crime are increasingly apparent. But why, precisely, and how should community involvement occur? In order to justify community participation in restorative practices, scholars have often relied on assumptions that have not yet been empirically verified. The present article is aimed at confronting some of these assumptions. In this way, I first draw on the restorative justice literature to identify and explore restorative justice’s appeals to community. Second, I show how the notion of community involvement has been conceived and operationalized throughout time and across different programmes of restorative justice. Finally, I revisit and problematize restorative justice’s appeals to community.References
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