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What harm, whose justice: excavating the restorative movement

Green, Simon; Johnstone, Gerry; Lambert, Craig

Authors

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Professor Simon Green S.T.Green@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Criminology & Victimology / Senior Researcher in Modern Slavery, Wilberforce Institute

Gerry Johnstone

Craig Lambert



Abstract

The city of Hull in the northeast of England gave itself the ambitious task of becoming the world's first restorative city. The aim of this strategy was to create a more socially and emotionally confident youth population which in turn would encourage a more entrepreneurial and aspirational outlook across the City. Based on a two-year National Lottery-funded project exploring peoples' experiences of restorative approaches and a Knowledge Transfer Project to help develop restorative skills, the development of restorative justice is analysed. How does a restorative classroom, workplace, or family really behave? Is there a common objective within, and across, all restorative initiatives and if so, what is it? The answer to these questions is that communication breakdown can be understood as the common harm within, and across the restorative movement. This raises some interesting questions and challenges for zemiology where both restorative justice and social harm perspectives contain quite different notions of harm suggesting that neither has yet developed a clear or solid foundation upon which to build an alternative focus to criminal harms.

Citation

Green, S., Johnstone, G., & Lambert, C. (2013). What harm, whose justice: excavating the restorative movement. Contemporary Justice Review, 16(4), 445-460. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2013.857071

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 13, 2012
Online Publication Date Nov 15, 2013
Publication Date 2013
Deposit Date Nov 13, 2014
Journal Contemporary Justice Review
Print ISSN 1028-2580
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 4
Pages 445-460
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2013.857071
Keywords REF 2014 submission!!
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/469869
Contract Date Nov 13, 2014