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Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies

Pali, Brunilda; Maglione, Giuseppe

Authors

Brunilda Pali

Giuseppe Maglione



Abstract

The European Directive 2012/29/EU, the Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)8), and the recently launched updated United Nations Handbook (2020) testify to the increasing policy recognition of restorative justice at international level. And yet, despite the vast and burgeoning literature on restorative justice, limited research and critical analysis has been conducted on policies, and even less on international policies and instruments. As a result, we know little about how restorative justice is framed within policy and how such framings could contribute toward the development of this field in practice. Addressing this gap, this article seeks to understand the ways in which restorative justice is construed within international policies and their conditions of possibility, using a ‘policy-as-discourse’ analytical approach. The article also draws implications for the study of the relationships between restorative justice policy and practice and for future research on the institutionalisation of this ‘new’ frontier of penality, internationally.

Citation

Pali, B., & Maglione, G. (2023). Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies. European Journal of Criminology, 20(2), 507-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708211013025

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 7, 2021
Online Publication Date May 7, 2021
Publication Date 2023-03
Deposit Date May 10, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal European Journal of Criminology
Print ISSN 1477-3708
Electronic ISSN 1741-2609
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 20
Issue 2
Pages 507-527
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708211013025
Keywords Discourse analysis, international policy, policy analysis, restorative justice
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2771200
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14773708211013025

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