As a response to the over-representation of Australian Aboriginal offenders in Western Australian prisons and high rates of reoffending, this article presents a sketch of Western and Australian Aboriginal worldviews and core symbols as a basis for understanding the rehabilitative-restorative needs of this prisoner cohort. The work first reviews and argues that the Western-informed Risk-Need-Responsivity model of programming for Australian Aboriginal prisoners has limited value for preventing reoffending. An introduction and description are then given to an Aboriginal in-prison restorative justice process (AIPRJP) which is delivered in a regional Western Australian prison. The process is largely undergirded by an Australian Aboriginal worldview and directed to delivering a culturally constructive and corrective intervention. The AIPRJP uses a range of symbolic forms (i.e. ritual, myth, play, art, information), which are adapted to the prison context to bring about the aims of restorative justice. The article contends that culturally informed restorative justice processes can produce intermediate outcomes that can directly or indirectly be associated with reductions in reoffending. |
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Restorative justice for hate crime in Scotland: the story so far |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Rania Hamad and Gael Cochrane |
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Restorative justice domesticated |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Lode Walgrave |
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Reconceptualising hate crime in a restorative framework |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Robert Peacock |
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Reflecting on structural violence and restorative justice in Brazil: the relevance of the UN handbook |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Petronella Maria Boonen |
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Notes from the field |
Twenty years of growing support for restorative justice: presenting the second edition of the UN Handbook |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Jee Aei (Jamie) Lee and Yvon Dandurand |
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Developments in the use of restorative justice for hate crime |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Mark Walters |
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Editorial |
Restorative justice myopia |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Tali Gal |
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Conversations on restorative justice |
A talk with Mary Koss |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Authors | Albert Dzur |
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An Australian Aboriginal in-prison restorative justice process: a worldview explanation |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Keywords | Australian Aboriginal, prison, recidivism, worldview, restorative justice |
Authors | Jane Anderson |
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The new international restorative justice framework: reviewing three years of progress and efforts to promote access to services and cultural change |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2020 |
Keywords | restorative justice, criminal justice reform, cultural change, international guidelines, international law |
Authors | Ian D. Marder |
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The years 2018-2020 saw a number of new international legal instruments and guidelines relating to restorative justice. In 2018, a landmark Recommendation adopted by the Council of Europe and a Resolution by the Organization of American States encouraged its use in their regions. In 2019, the Milquet Report proposed amending a European Union Directive to promote restorative justice as a diversion from court, while in 2020, the European Union adopted a new Victims’ Strategy, and the United Nations published a revised Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes. This article identifies and analyses the principal developments in this new international framework. It demonstrates the growing consensus on the potential applicability of restorative justice for all types of offences, and the emerging recognition that restorative justice should aim to satisfy the needs of all participants. It also explores statements endorsing the use of restorative justice beyond the criminal procedure and advising criminal justice institutions to utilise restorative principles to inform cultural change. The paper concludes that implementing international policies domestically requires justice reform advocates to build strong, trusting relationships, and organise inclusive partnerships, with all those who hold a stake in the development of restorative justice. |
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Voluntariness, coercion and restorative justice: questioning the orthodoxy |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2020 |
Authors | Gerry Johnstone |
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After three decades of restorative justice in Germany: thoughts on the needs for a strategic re-orientation |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2020 |
Authors | Gerd Delattre and Christoph Willms |
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Conversations on restorative justice |
A talk with Martin Wright |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2020 |
Authors | Albert Dzur |
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Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2020 |
Keywords | Restorative justice, youth offenders, trauma, marginalisation, offender accountability |
Authors | William R. Wood |
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In this article I explore the concept of accountability for young people in youth restorative conferencing. Definitions of accountability in research and programme literature demonstrate significant variation between expectations of young people to admit harms, make amends, address the causes of their offending, and desist from future offending. Such variation is problematic in terms of aligning conferencing goals with accountability expectations. I first draw from research that suggests appeals to normative frameworks such as accountability may not be useful for some young people with significant histories of victimisation, abuse, neglect, and trauma. I then examine problems in accountability for young people that are highly marginalised or ‘redundant’ in terms of systemic exclusion from economic and social forms of capital. These two issues – trauma on the micro level and social marginalisation on the macro level – suggest problems of getting to accountability for some young people. I also argue trauma and social marginalisation present specific problems for thinking about young offenders as ‘moral subjects’ and conferencing as an effective mechanism of moralising social control. I conclude by suggesting a clear distinction between accountability and responsibility is necessary to disentangle the conflation of misdeeds from the acute social, psychological, and developmental needs of some young offenders. |
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Orika Komatsubara, 性暴力と修復的司法 (Sexual violence and restorative justice: what will happen beyond the framework of deconstructing trauma) |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2020 |
Authors | Yoko Hosoi and Tetsu Harayama |
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Getting the question right: a pivotal choice for restorative justice |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2020 |
Authors | Susan Sharpe |
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