1. PROF. VASSO
ARTINOPOULO
U
PANTEION
University of
Athens,
Greece,
Director of the
‘Restorative
Justice &
Mediation’ Lab,
Co-Director of
the
‘Restorative
Justice for All’
Institute,
London, UK.
EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL
OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE:
CHALLENGES AND
DILEMMAS

2. THE WAY TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
THE CRISIS
OF THE
CRIMINOLOGY
RE OFFENDING
ZERO
TOLERANCE
POLICIES
PUNITIVE
ATTITUDES
THE
DEADLOCKS
OF THE
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
SYSTEMS
(prison
population,
victims’ needs,
lack of trust
etc)
11/9/2001
R.J
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3.  A different ZEITGEIST
 Concept of crime/violation
 Offender’s accountability
 Victim’s needs
 Restoration/healing/ reintegration
 Community level
 Values
 Bottom up perspective
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THE COMPLEX CONCEPT OF
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE –KEY ISSUES

4. R.J
SOCIO
LOGY
CRIMI
NOLOG
Y
SOCIA
L
ANTHR
OPOLO
GY
LAW
PSYCH
OLOGY
Econo
mics
THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY OF RESTORATIVE
JUSTICE –EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES
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5. A FIELD OF
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
WHERE:
INTERDISCIPLINARITY IS
DEFINED AS THE
DISCOURSE ON
THE
DISCOURCES
(ARTINOPOULOU, 2015)
RJ FINALLY IS ..RJ
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6. QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH
NARRATIVES
 LIFE HISTORIES
CASE STUDIES
 FOCUS GROUPS
QUANTITATIVE METHODS –MODELS OF
REOFFENDING PREVENTION (QUANTITATIVE
TOOLS ON CRIME DESISTANCE)
EMPIRICAL LEVEL
- THE METHODOLOGIES OF RJ
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7. Victim
offender
mediation
Community
conferences
Restorative
Circles
RJ PRACTICES AND POLICIES
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8. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS –DIVERSION
PROCEDURES
PRISON SETTINGS
 JUVENILE’S DELINQENCY
SCHOOL BULLYING AND PRO ACTIVE
INTERVENTIONS TO THE NON VIOLENT
STRATEGIES
 COMMUNITIES – CIVIL MEDIATION
FAMILIES – FAMILY MEDIATION
 WORKPLACES
FIELDS OF RJ IMPLEMENTATION
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9.  PROPERTY OFFENSES
JUVENILES
RECIDIVISM PREVENTION
 OPEN ISSUES: DOMESTIC OR
INTERPERSONAL PARTNERS VIOLENCE,
HOMICIDES, SEXUAL OFFENSES
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON RJ.
WHERE RJ WORKS
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10. The justifications for the
restorative justice potential
are focused on its holistic and
integrated perspective, the
evidence on the fields that
restorative justice works, and
the need to find out other,
alternative responses to the
deadlocks of the traditional
criminal justice systems
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11. The ‘individualization’ of crime
- concept
-justification
1ST WARNING / DILEMMA
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12. The privatization of ‘doing justice’
-Shift from the public to private policies
-RJ as an out-sourcing criminal justice policy
- The legitimate power of the state to handle
crime and criminality issues shifts to the social
actors/warning on the possible violation of
human rights
-evidence and research on RJ is still too weak
2ND WARNING/ DILEMMA
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13. The cost effectiveness approach and
the politics of Restorative Justice
-Doing ‘cheap justice’ in the era of austerity –
an alibi for the politicians?
-The cost effectiveness studies on RJ do not
Include a social capital approach and a pro-
active impact assessment
3ND WARNING / DILEMMA
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14. The widening of the social control
-reproducing power structures and attitudes
-labeling and stigma to the offenders
-victims safety in the RJ procedures/ risk of
secondary victimization
4RD WARNING/ DILEMMA
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15.  RJ as theory, research and practice comes to bridge the
gap between the principles and values of justice and the
realities in the traditional criminal justice systems.
 RJ comes to restore the missed trust of European
citizens in the criminal justice systems and law
implementation.
 Long way to evidence based knowledge in what fields RJ
works, and what is the impact of RJ in the individuals, in
the communities and the society
 Any warnings and dilemmas come from the need to
protect the values of justice, human rights, democracy
and the rule of law in the era of austerity, risk and
insecurity.
CONCLUDING
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16. Email:
Vasiliki.artinopoulou@panteion.gr
THANK YOU!