Restorative Justice – Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice – Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22274334 |
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| Authors | Wayne Northey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pages | 73-102 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The kenarchy journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2976-6001 • E-ISSN: 2976-6001 |
| Publisher | Mitchell Ministries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.62950/vxcsp26 |
| OpenAlex | W4395105017 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Appreciation goes to Dr Brad Jersak, the author’s friend, encourager, and mentor. In October 2020 at his invitation, a Q & A format was adopted for a presentation on what most commonly is known as “Restorative Justice.” As is clear from the title, this presentation argued emphatically for peacemaking and abolition as opposed to reform. What follows is a reworking of that material and addition of new, retaining the Q & A format. It begins with three pointers to the tendency of the State to use the criminal justice system as a means to population control. It then gives some background to the author’s lifelong immersion in issues of Restorative Justice, and the development of his thinking, particularly with respect to individuals harmed by the criminal justice system. Its negative community impact is then set out and an assessment is made of the penitentiary as a disastrous social experiment. The article concludes with a positive look of how the Restorative Justice movement has risen as a genuine alternative to the Western criminal justice system
Abolitionism · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Peacemaking · Pedagogy · Political science · Prison · Restorative justice · Sociology · Theory of criminal justice · Transformative learning · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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