Title: Visions and Patterns: How Patterns of Thinking Can Obstruct Justice
Abstract: Current criminal justice policy is built on the partial truth that crime is lawbreaking, ignoring another critical dimension—the injuries caused to victims. There have been times and places when crime was viewed as an offense against victims, their families, and the community. The goal of justice included repairing the damage to those parties, whether the damage was physical, financial, or relational. Chapter 1 reviews the historical shift toward making government central. It describes competing views that have been key to the development of restorative justice. The first is the victims’ rights and assistance movement, and the second is the prison abolition movement. In addition, the informal justice, indigenous justice, restitution, and social justice movements arose to challenge the conception of justice. None of these alone led to restorative justice theory, but all were influential. Much in restorative justice theory and practice has been drawn from these predecessors.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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