Restorative detention or ‘work on self’? Two accounts of a Belgian prison policy

Dubois, Christophe; Vrancken, Didier

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Restorative detention or ‘work on self’? Two accounts of a Belgian prison policy

Dubois, Christophe; Vrancken, Didier

2015 • In Ethnography, 16 (2), p. 187-206

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restorative justice; prison policy; practice; work on self; discourse; translation process

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[en] Besides being known for population overcrowding, prison staff strikes, and prisoner suicides or escapes, which are frequently reported by the press, prison might also be a place for rare innovative projects. One such project can be seen in a penitentiary policy initiated in Belgium in 2000 aimed at re-shaping the culture of detention towards a culture of ‘restorative justice’. What can be said of this attempt at introducing the concepts of victim, restoration, responsibilization, sensitizing and awareness within prison walls? The present article proposes an illustrative and interpretive account of this prison policy. Rather than restoring the broken victim-offender relationship, its implementation has something to do with detainees working on their ‘self’.

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Criminology
Social work & social policy
Anthropology
Sociology & social sciences

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Dubois, Christophe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales

Vrancken, Didier ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie de l'organisation et de l'intervention

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English

Title :

Restorative detention or ‘work on self’? Two accounts of a Belgian prison policy

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2015

Journal title :

Ethnography

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1466-1381

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1741-2714

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Sage

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187-206

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http://eth.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/06/26/1466138114538803

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This contribution has been realized with the support of the IAP ‘Justice & Populations’ (PVII/22) Interuniversity Attraction Poles Program – Belgian Science Policy, and with the support of the University of Liège Special Research Fund (FSR, ULg).

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