"The legal/administrative goals of the justice institution override those of restorative justice and/or implicitly redefine the restorative practices and values.
"Outside of the contemporary criminal justice system, restorative practices have flourished and a number of different specific forms and types of practices have evolved."
It would seem, then, that state power is a major impediment to the implementation of restorative (and presumably any other progressive form of) justice. I wonder if there are ways to reduce the state's dependency on courts to maintain and reinforce the state's grip on power.
Thanks for the observation Ien. I think it is not so much the wielding of state power per se that it is the impediment here. Rather it is when that power is wielded in such a way as to unilaterally control meaning.
"The legal/administrative goals of the justice institution override those of restorative justice and/or implicitly redefine the restorative practices and values.
"Outside of the contemporary criminal justice system, restorative practices have flourished and a number of different specific forms and types of practices have evolved."
It would seem, then, that state power is a major impediment to the implementation of restorative (and presumably any other progressive form of) justice. I wonder if there are ways to reduce the state's dependency on courts to maintain and reinforce the state's grip on power.
Thanks for the observation Ien. I think it is not so much the wielding of state power per se that it is the impediment here. Rather it is when that power is wielded in such a way as to unilaterally control meaning.