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Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives (2022)
Journal Article
Butler, S., Maglione, G., & Buchan, J. (2024). Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 24(1), 269-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221104229

While in some European and extra-European countries the incorporation of restorative justice into policy frameworks is a dated and widely studied phenomenon, in others it is a more recent and scarcely researched process. The Scottish Government is ma... Read More about Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives.

Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies (2021)
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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

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 y... Read More about Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies.

Techno-sovereignism: the political rationality of contemporary Italian populism (2021)
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Maglione, G. (2021). Techno-sovereignism: the political rationality of contemporary Italian populism. Theory and Society, 50(5), 791-813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-021-09429-1

This article provides an original exploration of the self-identified populist coalition leading the Italian government between 2018 and 2019. The analysis, informed by a governmentality approach, starts by scrutinising the economic, social, and cultu... Read More about Techno-sovereignism: the political rationality of contemporary Italian populism.

The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study (2020)
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Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2022). The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 617-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09470-3

This article presents the results of the first empirical qualitative research on the provision of restorative justice (RJ) in Scotland, based on interviews with 14 practitioners. In Scotland, RJ has attracted the attention of penal reformers and prac... Read More about The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study.

Restorative justice and the State. Untimely objections against the institutionalisation of restorative justice (2020)
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Maglione, G. (2020). Restorative justice and the State. Untimely objections against the institutionalisation of restorative justice. British Journal of Community Justice,

The incorporation of restorative justice (RJ) into penal policy is not a neutral process; it actually reshapes both the rationales and the functioning of RJ, possibly erasing its potential to be something 'other' and 'better' than criminal justice. T... Read More about Restorative justice and the State. Untimely objections against the institutionalisation of restorative justice.

Judith Butler: The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind: Verso, London and New York, 2020, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781788732765 (HB), ISBN: 9781788732772 (PB), ISBN: 9781788732796 (eBook) (2020)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2021). Judith Butler: The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind: Verso, London and New York, 2020, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781788732765 (HB), ISBN: 9781788732772 (PB), ISBN: 9781788732796 (eBook). Critical Criminology, 29, 405-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-020-09535-z

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Restorative Justice, Crime Victims and Penal Welfarism. Mapping and Contextualising Restorative Justice Policy in Scotland (2020)
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Maglione, G. (2021). Restorative Justice, Crime Victims and Penal Welfarism. Mapping and Contextualising Restorative Justice Policy in Scotland. Social and Legal Studies, 30(5), 745-767. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920965669

While the criminological literature is abundant in studies on the functioning and effectiveness of restorative justice, there is a lack of engagement with policy on this subject, in spite of the increasing incorporation of restorative justice into po... Read More about Restorative Justice, Crime Victims and Penal Welfarism. Mapping and Contextualising Restorative Justice Policy in Scotland.

Restorative Justice Policy in Context: A Legal-Archaeological Analysis (2020)
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Maglione, G. (2022). Restorative Justice Policy in Context: A Legal-Archaeological Analysis. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 35, 493-517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09747-0

This paper provides an original, in-depth analysis of English and Welsh criminal and penal policy on restorative justice. By using a historically-discursive approach—legal archaeology—this study firstly outlines the overarching representations of res... Read More about Restorative Justice Policy in Context: A Legal-Archaeological Analysis.

The Electronic Monitoring of Offenders in Context: From Policy to Political Logics (2019)
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Laurie, E., & Maglione, G. (2020). The Electronic Monitoring of Offenders in Context: From Policy to Political Logics. Critical Criminology, 28, 685-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09471-7

The electronic monitoring (EM) of offenders is a subject that has been researched widely within criminology. Theoretical engagement with this instrument has been limited, however. The criminological literature, in fact, has focused primarily on empir... Read More about The Electronic Monitoring of Offenders in Context: From Policy to Political Logics.

The restorative justice apparatus: a critical analysis of the historical emergence of restorative justice (2018)
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Maglione, G. (2019). The restorative justice apparatus: a critical analysis of the historical emergence of restorative justice. Social and Legal Studies, 28(5), 650-674. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663918806561

Drawing on Michel Foucault's theoretical reservoir, this paper conceptualises restorative justice as an 'apparatus', that is, a dynamic ensemble of elements whose emergence is related to the development of a distinctive political rationality (ethopol... Read More about The restorative justice apparatus: a critical analysis of the historical emergence of restorative justice.

The political rationality of restorative justice (2018)
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Maglione, G. (2018). The political rationality of restorative justice. Theoretical Criminology, 136248061875636. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618756364

This paper investigates the political conditions which have enabled the development of restorative justice, in England and Wales, over the last 30 years. The rise of restorative justice is considered integral to the emergence of a (rather incoherent)... Read More about The political rationality of restorative justice.

Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice (2017)
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Maglione, G. (2017). Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice. Contemporary Justice Review, 21(1), 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2017.1413360

This paper reconstructs and discuss how the 'offender' is represented within policy documents, legal statutes and scholarly literature on restorative justice, published and circulated in England and Wales over the last thirty years. The research firs... Read More about Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice.

Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context (2017)
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Maglione, G. (2017). Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 50, 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2017.02.004

This work is a critical analysis of how the main crime stakeholders (victim, offender and community) are represented within policy and legal statutes on restorative justice. The paper starts by sketching out the legal and policy archive of restorativ... Read More about Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context.

Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws (2017)
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Maglione, G. (2017). Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws. Critical Criminology, 25(3), 453-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9349-8

Within the scholarly literature on restorative justice, the ‘community’, as a distinctive crime stakeholder, has been the target of extensive research. This work provides an original interpretation of the underlying images of the community within pol... Read More about Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws.

Embodied Victims: An archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice (2016)
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Maglione, G. (2017). Embodied Victims: An archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 17(4), 401-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895816677172

This article seeks to provide a historical-critical framework to reconstruct and discuss how the crime victim is portrayed within theoretical literature, policy and legal documents on restorative justice, with an emphasis on England and Wales. It fir... Read More about Embodied Victims: An archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice.