Current debates over restorative justice: concept, definition and practice
journal contribution
posted on 2025-10-28, 09:36 authored by Masahiro SuzukiMasahiro Suzuki, Hennessey Hayes<p dir="ltr">Since its emergence, restorative justice (RJ) has attracted scholars, practitioners and policy-makers from around the world. At the same time, however, such popularity has also generated confusion and a lack of consensus on what is RJ. Different people have proposed different notions of what qualifies as RJ. This article aims to contribute to such an ongoing debate by providing an overall picture of RJ. In this commentary, consideration is given to three aspects of RJ: concept, definition and practice.</p>
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy
Published in
Prison Service JournalVolume
228Pages
4 - 8Publisher
Centre for Crime and Justice StudiesVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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All content published by the PSJ is openly licensed under the terms of the following Creative Commons license: CC BY – Attribution. This is an open access licence which permits use and distribution in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.Publication date
2016-01-01Copyright date
2016ISSN
0300-3558eISSN
0300-3558Publisher version
Language
- en
