The political rationality of restorative justice

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ID12587046
AuthorsGiuseppe Maglione (0000-0001-9818-5434, Edinburgh Napier University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume23
Issue4
Pages545-562
Publication date2018-02-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheoretical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-4806 • E-ISSN: 1461-7439
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1362480618756364
OpenAlexW2791882263
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited48

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

Ambivalence · Criminology · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Restorative justice · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology

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