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The Transformative Potential of Restorative Justice: What the Mainstream Can Learn from the Margins

Meredith Rossner, Helen Taylor

Annual Review of Criminology · 2023

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Summary

Restorative justice is an idea and a practice that has had a significant impact on criminology over the past four decades and has proliferated throughout the criminal justice system. Yet from the beginning of this movement, there have been worries that the mainstreaming of restorative justice will lead to its dilution, or even corruption, and undermine its transformative potential. Developing alongside the growing institutionalization of restorative justice has been a transformative justice movement that has arisen from larger movements for racial and gender justice, drawing on similar foundational values to restorative justice. This review interrogates the relationship between restorative and transformative justice by examining a flourishing of ideas and experiments at the margins of the

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1146/annurev-criminol-030421-040921
Catalogue ID
SNmojg08lk-xi59zu
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