Restorative justice: deliberative democracy in action?

Parkinson, John; Roche, Declan

doi:10.1080/103614042000295101

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“…The purpose is to ensure that the harm is fully and meaningfully addressed. And finally, by virtue of its inclusive and participatory features, as well as the future-focused orientation, the restorative process can address the relevant and broader social and legal issues that surround the circumstance of the harm; in this way, restorative justice contributes to the democratic agenda (Parkinson & Roche, 2004;Woolford, 2009), which can signal to the victim 'you are empowered to have a say in ensuring this does not happen again. '…”

Section: Restorative Justice and Relationalitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Contesting policy that undermines restorative justice for victims of crime☆

Ney

2012

Contemporary Justice Review

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A policy provision in the Criminal Victim Assistance Program in British Columbia excludes the offender from participating in restorative justice approaches with the victim (and other affected parties) during counseling. A historical analysis of victim responses to crime shows that the victim experience to crime is socially constructed. In this regard, this policy act that excludes offenders from the victim healing process is consistent with a traditional approach to justice, which understands the offender to have committed a crime against the state, not the victim; however, separating the offender from the healing process is problematic within a restorative framework of justice where relationality is a central premise. Using a restorative lens, this policy act is contrary to an accompanying statute that has explicit provisions for counseling support for crime victims, as well as other statutes that provide for restorative responses to crime in Canada. The way we counsel and support victims from the harms created by crime cannot be separated from our view of justice.

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Section: Restorative Justice and Relationalitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Contesting policy that undermines restorative justice for victims of crime☆

Ney

2012

Contemporary Justice Review

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“…In other words, we understand community mediation as an educational process in which humans can adapt themselves to the world by learning the technique of mediation but also, above all, humanizing and transforming justice in the world through actions that are based on universal ethics. Few studies have looked at how community mediation practices, conflict resolution, or conflict management in general can be understood as a practical form of deliberative democracy (Parkinson & Roche, 2004) or as a central tool within public administration (Lan, 1997). However, lessons derived from the philosophy and practice of community mediation can provide our leaders the opportunity to aspire to humility, foster equity, and understand how to improve their given roles.…”

Section: Community Mediation In Public Administrationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Forum: New Perspectives in Public Administration

Salm

Ordway

2010

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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Celebrating its fortieth year of publication in English, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed reminds us that education provides insight about the critical role of education within politics. For the purposes of contributing to the theory and practice of public administration, our intention in this essay is to draw upon Freire's description of education 1 outlined in his seminal work as it relates to opportunities to educate public administration leadership about participatory dialogue, deliberation, and humanization through conflict. With this goal in mind, we reflect on Freire's notion of education as being consistent with the practices and philosophy traditionally associated with community-oriented mediation. Such a perspective is a lens through which to name critical requisites for leadership to strengthen the living, learning, and laboring experience within the workplace of the public sphere. The relevance of community mediation and its parallels to political education based on Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed offers a reinvigoration of ideals for public sector agency leadership at many levels. The connections presented also demonstrate the promise of education that can help leaders as they face today's challenges in decision making, risk taking, and uncertainty. We will also suggest some tools and highlight systems currently being used within the public administration realm that can serve the ends of both theoretical and practical learning.In current Western market-driven societies, there is a strong need for education in civic engagement, reflection, dialogue, contemplation, and responsibility. These topics of a more politicized education are imperative to counterbalance the skill-depositing process of traditional education, which prepares students for one purpose: entering mass-market-driven, alienating societies (Arendt

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“…The authority for resolving problems through mediation and community dispute resolution comes, after all, from an ideal of the deliberative process -mutual reason-giving that includes all parties in self-government, albeit on a small scale (Parkinson & Roche, 2004;Gutmann & Thompson, 1996). But countries that have democratized more recently also share the crises of the modern state, including reduced faith in its sanctioning authority.…”

Section: Democratization and Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…That would require a time-series analysis and/or comparative study of communities with and without these types of programs. Nor is the research intended to assess the applicability of the ideals of deliberative democracy to the restorative proceedings used by the two projects (Parkinson & Roche, 2004). My interest in the contribution of community dispute resolution to new democracies has led me to attempt to learn what the experience of resolving interpersonal disputes in the community has meant for the people who do it -whether, through their involvement, they become more confident and more effective in their roles as voters, more vocal in speaking out on public and private matters that affect them, better able to work politically for the full realization of the benefits of democracy.…”

Section: Democratization and Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile

Gordon

2011

Contemporary Justice Review

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Restorative justice: deliberative democracy in action?

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Contesting policy that undermines restorative justice for victims of crime☆

Contesting policy that undermines restorative justice for victims of crime☆

Forum: New Perspectives in Public Administration

Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile

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