Twenty Years of Restorative Justice in Belgian Prisons: Traces and Critical Questions
peer reviewed ; This article accounts for a prison policy initiated in Belgium in 1998 that aimed at re-shaping the culture of detention towards a culture of ‘restorative justice’. This analysis first illuminates the relationship between knowledge and policy in the policymaking process, but also in the top-down implementation process. The article then assesses the current embeddedness of restorative jus-tice ideas and practices in Flemish and French-speaking prison policies. The discussion finally points out some critical ques-tions raised by the concept of restorative justice, its political a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journal article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Franco Angeli Edizioni
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Schlagwörter: | Restorative justice / policymaking / policy implementation / policy embeddedness / controversies / Law / criminology & political science / Criminology / Social & behavioral sciences / psychology / Sociology & social sciences / Droit / criminologie & sciences politiques / Criminologie / Sciences sociales & comportementales / psychologie / Sociologie & sciences sociales |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26503876 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/226909 |
peer reviewed ; This article accounts for a prison policy initiated in Belgium in 1998 that aimed at re-shaping the culture of detention towards a culture of ‘restorative justice’. This analysis first illuminates the relationship between knowledge and policy in the policymaking process, but also in the top-down implementation process. The article then assesses the current embeddedness of restorative jus-tice ideas and practices in Flemish and French-speaking prison policies. The discussion finally points out some critical ques-tions raised by the concept of restorative justice, its political and legal inscriptions (Freeman & Sturdy, 2015), and some of the paradoxes it entails in terms of ‘institutionalised alternative’ (Bastard & Cardia-Vonèche, 2000) and ‘retribution and/or res-toration’ (Albrecht, 2011; Pavlich, 2013).