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Twenty Years of Restorative Justice in Belgian Prisons: Traces and Critical Questions
Dubois, Christophe
2018In Sicurezza e Scienze Sociali, 2, p. 103-118
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Keywords :
Restorative justice; policymaking; policy implementation; policy embeddedness; controversies
Abstract :
[en] This article accounts for a prison policy initiated in Belgium in 1998 that aimed at re-shaping the culture of detention towards a culture of ‘restorative justice’. This analysis first illuminates the relationship between knowledge and policy in the policymaking process, but also in the top-down implementation process. The article then assesses the current embeddedness of restorative jus-tice ideas and practices in Flemish and French-speaking prison policies. The discussion finally points out some critical ques-tions raised by the concept of restorative justice, its political and legal inscriptions (Freeman & Sturdy, 2015), and some of the paradoxes it entails in terms of ‘institutionalised alternative’ (Bastard & Cardia-Vonèche, 2000) and ‘retribution and/or res-toration’ (Albrecht, 2011; Pavlich, 2013).
Research center :
CRIS
Disciplines :
Criminology
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Dubois, Christophe  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Socio. proc. de gouv. et de digi. des orga. et des marchés
Language :
English
Title :
Twenty Years of Restorative Justice in Belgian Prisons: Traces and Critical Questions
Publication date :
2018
Journal title :
Sicurezza e Scienze Sociali
ISSN :
2283-8740
eISSN :
2283-7523
Publisher :
Franco Angeli Edizioni, Italy
Special issue title :
Recidiva, carcere e misure alternative
Volume :
2
Pages :
103-118
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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