Restorative Justice and “Empowerment”: Producing and Governing Active Subjects through “Empowering” Practices

Richards, Kelly

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“…Governmentality-oriented explorations of RJ have been available since the early 2000s (Lippens, 2015;O'Malley, 2009;Pavlich 2005;Richards, 2011). Compared to this extant literature, this work is original in a number of interconnected ways.…”

Section: Methodological and Theoretical Considerationsmentioning

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“…The political context of RJ has been extensively explored by both RJ advocates (Braithwaite, 1999;Marshall, 1996;Wright, 1996) and scholars (Dignan, 2005;Hoyle and Cunneen, 2010;Johnstone, 2011;Newburn and Crawford, 2003). The present work can be located within the limited province of the literature on the political background of RJ applying a governmentality mode of analysis (Lippens, 2014;O'Malley, 2009;Pavlich, 2005;Richards, 2011). The paper revolves around the idea that the spreading of legal/policy measures, as well as practical and theoretical interest around RJ, in England and Wales, over the last 30 years, has been possible due to the parallel rise of a combination of political rationalities -that is, ethopolitics (Rose 1996b(Rose , 1999a)informing the governmental practice in the relevant geo-historical setting.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The political rationality of restorative justice

Maglione

2018

Theoretical Criminology

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This article investigates the political conditions that have enabled the development of restorative justice, in England and Wales, over the last 40 years. By applying a governmentality approach, it conceptualizes the emergence of restorative justice as a response to distinctive political problematics, enacted by a range of governmental technologies and driven by a combination of competing political rationalities. In so doing, the article seeks to shed light on the assemblage of ambivalent principles and values that constitute restorative justice by linking them to conflicting political contingencies. This could have implications in understanding both the fragmentary growth of restorative justice in England and Wales, and, more generally, the political roots of restorative justice policies, programmes and practices beyond the British borders.

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Section: Methodological and Theoretical Considerationsmentioning

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The political rationality of restorative justice

Maglione

2018

Theoretical Criminology

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“…The analysis proceeds inferentially: firstly it draws the authoritative discourses from the relevant laws, policy documents and literature; it then profiles the 'ideal community' from the authoritative discourses, by piecing together the most recurrent representations of community emerging from the archive. At this point, it is possible to offer an interpretation of how this ideal has emerged and sedimented historically (Richards 2011). Legal and policy regulations, in fact, do not take place in a vacuum, they carry a past with them and are influenced by a wide and stratified range of cultural phenomena.…”

Section: Methodological and Theoretical Orientationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, this normative community implicitly endorses the imposition on individuals of the same binary classifications of 'right' and 'wrong' and 'victim' and 'offender' which belong to ''conventional'' criminal justice, reducing the chances of cooperative relationships between individuals with a stake in a crime. The 'ideal community' is ''just'' another stakeholder entangled in the thin mesh of the mainstream RJ, whereby legal and non-legal (moral, psychological, spiritual) categories constraint participants in order to enfranchise them from the conflict/crime (Richards 2011).…”

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Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws

Maglione

2017

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Within the scholarly literature on restorative justice, the 'community', as a distinctive crime stakeholder, has been the target of extensive research. This work provides an original interpretation of the underlying images of the community within policy documents and legal statutes on RJ produced in England and Wales since 1985. The paper begins with an outline of the most recurrent representations of the community in relevant laws and policy, unearthing their theoretical underpinnings. The next step aims to infer from the general representations a range of more specific features, and to sketch out an 'ideal' model of community in restorative justice, whose cultural background is also outlined. As a final step, some critical reflections on the implications of the 'ideal community' are offered. By identifying what is taken for granted in laws and policies on restorative justice and its cultural context, this study aims to foster a critical ''reality check'' on this specific development of western penal policy, relevant for the restorative justice movement, at the international level.

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“…The analysis proceeds inferentially: firstly, it draws the authoritative discourses from the relevant laws, policy documents and literature; then, it profiles the 'ideal' victim, offender and community from the those discourses, by piecing together the most recurrent stakeholders' representations emerging from the archive. At this point, it is possible to offer an interpretation of how those images have emerged historically (Richards, 2011). Legal and policy regulations, in fact, do not take place in a void; they carry a past with them and are influenced by a wide and stratified range of phenomena.…”

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Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context

Maglione

2017

International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice

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Restorative Justice and “Empowerment”: Producing and Governing Active Subjects through “Empowering” Practices

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

The political rationality of restorative justice

The political rationality of restorative justice

Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws

Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context

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