Restorative Justice at a Crossroads: Dilemmas of Institutionalisation [Hardcover]

1. Contextualising the dilemmas of institutionalising restorative justice? 2. Restorative justice in Australia and New Zealand: A Faustian bargain with the state?? 3. Restorative justice for wrongful convictions: A quasi-institutional approach? ?4. The autonomy principle as a normative red line between restorative processes and criminal proceedings in France? 5. Innovative and transformative effects of restorative justice: Reflections on the recent reform adopted in Italy? 6. Restorative justice and domestic violence courts in Brazil: The double challenge of institutionalisation? 7. Beyond lawmaking: Restorative approaches in governance? 8. Meeting the challenges of scaling up restorative justice in the United States? 9. Congruent or contradictory? What isomorphism teaches us about the relationship between restorative justice and the mainstream criminal justice system? 10. The deadly embrace of restorative justice in Germany? 11. Victim offender mediation in the Danish police: The dancing and wrestling of organisation culture and programme purpose? 12. Crossroads and dilemmas

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last twenty years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normative structure of restorative justice, and on its understanding and uses in practice.

With appropriate nuance, this book offers critical reflections on global attempts to institutionalise restorative justice. It highlights socio-political challenges to repressive state criminalisation, outlining relations of resistance and cooptation that forge diverse justice arenas today. It will be a key resource for scholars, students, and practitioners of restorative justice.

George Pavlich, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada

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