This work examines the feasibility of extending the implementation of restorative justice to the field of white-collar crime for a specific class of victimisation: that which people experience as a group (i.e. supra-individual victimisation). For this purpose, we analyse some key issues and outline a number of criteria for determining who would be able to speak on behalf of supra-individual victims of white-collar crime in restorative meetings. Some initial proposals are offered, based on four types of supra-individual victimisation, which would provide a framework for the selection of spokespersons who could attend restorative meetings in restoratively oriented criminal proceedings. |
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Towards a restorative justice approach to white-collar crime and supra-individual victimisation |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue Online First 2022 |
Keywords | restorative justice, white-collar crimes, supra-individual victimisation, spokespersons at restorative meetings, eligibility criteria |
Authors | Daniela Gaddi and María José Rodríguez Puerta |
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Why an atmosphere of transhumanism undermines green restorative justice concepts and tenets |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 1 2021 |
Keywords | green restorative justice, transhumanism, technological progress, animals, bioethics |
Authors | Gema Varona |
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Arising from the notions of green criminology and green victimology, green restorative justice can be defined as a restorative justice focused on environmental harm. Harm in this case is understood as criminalised and non-criminalised, and as individual and collective behaviours damaging the ecosystems and the existence of human and non-human beings. Impacts of environmental harm affect health, economic, social and cultural dimensions, and will be experienced in the short, medium and long term. Within this framework, after linking restorative justice to green criminology and green victimology, I will argue that the current weight of the cultural and social movement of transhumanism constitutes an obstacle to the development of restorative justice in this field. The reason is that it fosters individual narcissism, together with the idea of an absence of limits in what is considered technological progress. This progress is seen as inevitable and good per se, and promotes the perception of a lack of social and moral accountability. This reasoning will lead to some final reflections on how restorative justice has to constantly reinvent itself in order to keep creating a critical and inclusive justice of ‘otherness’. By doing so, restorative justice must join the current interdisciplinary conversation on biopolitics and bioethics. |