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Gerry Johnstone (University of hull)
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Exposition ◦ Overlap with advocacy Scientific Evaluation Critiques ◦ Internal ◦ External (common standpoint = traditional legal/retributive values)
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Reasons: ◦ Involvement ◦ Focus on matters of immediate policy or practical relevance
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The restorative justice complex ◦ Practices ◦ ideas embodied in practice ◦ representations The restorative justice ethos ◦ A particular way of seeing the world ◦ A preferred way of acting in the world
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What is the political and cultural character of restorative justice? How would society be affected by the spread of the restorative justice ethos? Need to compare: ◦ Self-understanding ◦ A more detached understanding
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Restorative justice progressive, at odds with the cultural mainstream, has beneficial effects ◦ Fewer exposed to harmful interventions or neglect/more exposed to constructive interventions ◦ People become empowered ◦ Spills over into empowered communities Decline of punitive mentalities and bureaucratic mindsets
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Look at rise of RJ on broader context RJ in tune with key aspects of cultural mainstream RJ both exemplifies and helps disseminate key aspects of the contemporary political and cultural imagination These aspects of culture are complex and in many ways problematic
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Neo-Liberalism ◦ Encourages citizens and communities to become less state-reliant and assume responsibility for security and other problems Therapy culture ◦ Tendency to interpret our encounters, experiences and relationships though the prism of emotions ◦ Events analysed via cultural scripts of ‘trauma’ and ‘healing’
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Progressive implications of RJ cannot be taken for granted (or read off from intentions) Need to explore political and cultural contexts which underpin and shape the implications of restorative justice
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