RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN PRISONS. 'DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT PRECAUTIONS'
| Autor: | Leo Van Garsse |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Restorative detention
responsibility participative justice cooption democratic citizenship Sociology and Political Science Political science Restorativni pritvor odgovornost participativna pravda kooptacija demokratsko građanstvo Developmental and Educational Psychology Democratic citizenship Theology Education |
| Zdroj: | Ljetopis socijalnog rada Volume 22 Issue 1 |
| ISSN: | 1848-7971 1846-5412 |
| Popis: | Over the past decades the notion of restorative detention has become quite popular amongst policymakers and scholars. Restorative justice promoters might consider this development as an enormous step forward in the shift from retribution and vengeance to a more human approach to the execution of punishment. For many years in fact, restorative justice had to struggle with an embarrassing gap between its far-reaching ideological promises of introducing a criminal justice paradigm shift on the one hand, and the lack of practice that goes beyond the level of measures of diversion in cases of minor crime on the other hand. Unmistakably, the sudden access to the prison population is an opportunity to demonstrate the restorative justice potential in exactly those kinds of cases it was originally meant for, i.e. situations in which the formality of the traditional procedure is likely to overrule the subjective needs for information, communication and restoration of dignity of those involved. However, the brief restorative justice history clearly demonstrates the risk of cooption, turning it into a justification of the old penal justice paradigms instead of introducing a new one. The author of this article was for many years closely involved in the development of victim-offender mediation and restorative justice in Belgium. He only partly shares the common enthusiasm for the upcoming restorative detention. Instead, he observes that the few restorative justice programmes which were welcomed within the penitentiaries generally are the ones which focus upon the morality of the offender by promoting victim awareness. At the same time, the victim selectively welcomed is not that much a concrete person with mixed and critical feelings and with developing standpoints, but preferably a stereotype of a suffering vulnerable individual, a suitable object for protection and care. Restorative justice was never said to be value free. But still, in what kind of pedagogy does restorative justice want to play a role? This article is a plea for radicalising the critical potential of restorative justice, deliberately focussing not only on the parties’ very personal needs, but also on the paradoxical context of a self-defined ‘restorative detention’, claiming to address them. Tijekom proteklih desetljeća pojam restorativnog pritvora postao je vrlo popularan među kreatorima politike i znanstvenim radnicima. Promicatelji restorativne pravde takav razvoj mogu smatrati golemim napretkom u pomaku s odmazde i osvete na humaniji pristup izvršenju kazne. U stvarnosti, restorativna se pravda mnogo godina bori s neugodnim jazom između njezinih dalekosežnih ideoloških obećanja uvođenja promjene u paradigme kaznenog pravosuđa s jedne strane i, s druge strane, s nedostatkom prakse koja nadilazi razinu mjera diverzije, to jest odvraćanja (eng. diversion) u slučajevima maloljetničkog kaznenog djela. Nedvojbeno, iznenadni pristup zatvorskoj populaciji prilika je da se potencijal restorativne pravde pokaže točno u takvim slučajevima kojima je izvorno namijenjena, odnosno situacijama u kojima će formalnost tradicionalnog postupka vjerojatno obeskrijepiti subjektivne potrebe za informacijama, komunikacijom i povratom dostojanstva uključenih osoba. Međutim, kratka povijest restorativne pravde jasno pokazuje rizik od kooptacije, zbog čega se ona pretvara u opravdanje starih paradigmi kaznenog pravosuđa umjesto da uvodi nove. Autor ovoga članka dugi je niz godina blisko uključen u razvoj posredovanja (medijacije) između žrtve i počinitelja te restorativne pravde u Belgiji. On je tek djelomice sklon predstojećem restorativnom pritvoru. Umjesto toga, napominje da su malobrojni programi restorativne pravde koji su uvedeni u kaznionice uglavnom oni koji se usredotočuju na moral počinitelja, podizanjem svijesti o žrtvi. U isto vrijeme, selektivno odabrana žrtva nije zapravo konkretna osoba s pomiješanim i kritičkim osjećajima koja razvija svoja stajališta, nego po mogućnosti stereotip ranjive osobe koja pati i koja je pogodan predmet zaštite i brige. Za restorativnu se pravdu nikada nije tvrdilo da je objektivna. Ipak, u kakvoj bi vrsti pedagogije restorativna pravda željela igrati ulogu? Ovaj je članak molba za radikaliziranjem kritičkog potencijala restorativne pravde; hotimice je usmjeren ne samo na intimne potrebe uključenih strana, nego i na paradoksalni kontekst samodefiniranog „restorativnog pritvora“ u kojem se navodno one rješavaju. |
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