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Restorative Justice and De-Professionalization

Restorative Justice and De-Professionalization SYMPOSIUM John Braithwaite Restorative justice is a process where all the stakeholders hold a celebration circle when implementation is completed. affected by an injustice have an opportunity to discuss how they Citizens beyond the victim and the offender might also sign have been affected by the injustice and to decide what should be the agreement because they assume responsibility for some done to repair the harm. With crime, restorative justice is about aspect of the agreement. For example, the victim of a violent the idea that because crime hurts, justice should heal. It follows crime might ask that the offender attend an anger management that conversations with those who have been hurt and with those program. A supporter of the offender says that after a previous who have afflicted the harm must be central to the process. offense the judge ordered attendance at an anger management Empirically it happens to be the case that victims of crime are program. The offender attended a couple of times and then just more concerned about emotional than material reparation (Strang, stopped bothering to attend. An uncle chimes in and offers to 2003). Lawyers are obviously not well placed to give an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Good Society Penn State University Press

Restorative Justice and De-Professionalization

The Good Society , Volume 13 (1) – Nov 18, 2004

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Copyright © 2004 by The Pennsylvania State University.
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SYMPOSIUM John Braithwaite Restorative justice is a process where all the stakeholders hold a celebration circle when implementation is completed. affected by an injustice have an opportunity to discuss how they Citizens beyond the victim and the offender might also sign have been affected by the injustice and to decide what should be the agreement because they assume responsibility for some done to repair the harm. With crime, restorative justice is about aspect of the agreement. For example, the victim of a violent the idea that because crime hurts, justice should heal. It follows crime might ask that the offender attend an anger management that conversations with those who have been hurt and with those program. A supporter of the offender says that after a previous who have afflicted the harm must be central to the process. offense the judge ordered attendance at an anger management Empirically it happens to be the case that victims of crime are program. The offender attended a couple of times and then just more concerned about emotional than material reparation (Strang, stopped bothering to attend. An uncle chimes in and offers to 2003). Lawyers are obviously not well placed to give an

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The Good SocietyPenn State University Press

Published: Nov 18, 2004

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