Download This PaperRestorative Justice: A Conceptual Framework
Prepared for the Law Commission of Canada, 1999
112 Pages Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Date Written: 1999
Abstract
Restorative justice has become a fashionable term both in Canadian and foreign legal and social policy discourse. Restorative justice is certainly not a new idea. In fact, it is foundational to our very ideas about law and conflict resolution. There is, nevertheless, a lack of clarity about the meaning of this term. Often it is used as a catchall phrase to refer to any practice which does not look like the mainstream practice of the administration of justice, particularly in the area of criminal justice. Little attention has been spent attempting to articulate what distinguishes a practice as restorative. Rather, we have been content simply to identify what restorative justice is not - namely two lawyers, a jury and/or judge in a courtroom.
Keywords: restorative justice, framework, rights protection, restoration, social protection
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Robert Howse
New York University School of Law ( email )
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012-1099
United States
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