Criminal Justice

Workshop 21 – Restorative Justice

These instructions relate to your workshop in w/c 17th April. The relevant lecture on
restorative justice is available for viewing in the lectorial folder on blackboard.

Preparation

Required reading:

Newburn, T. (2017) Criminology. Abingdon: Routledge, pages 804-830. (Please note that this text is
available as an ebook via the UWE library.

Recommended reading:

Christie, N. (2015) Widening the net. Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 3(1), pp. 109–113.

Hayes, H. et al (2014) Agreements in restorative justice conferences: exploring the implications of

agreements for post-conference offending behaviour. British Journal of Criminology. 54(1), pp. 109-127.

Instructions

The workshop will open with a tutor introduction; followed by two tasks:

Task 1 – Short Answer Questions

You will be asked to consider the following questions:

1. What is ‘restorative justice’ and in what forms may it occur?

2. Identify three ways in which RJ values differ from criminal justice values.

3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of restorative justice approaches?

Task 2 – Essay Question

Please prepare and be ready discuss the following:

Assess the main claims of restorative justice and discuss the claim that it represents a
limited and artificial addition to our ‘menu’ of criminal justice approaches.

You will be working in small groups (maximum of 4 people); pairs; or independently.

Please prepare for these tasks in advance of the workshop; and be ready to discuss and
share.

Further instruction will be given in the workshop by your tutor; your tutor will be able to
assist and guide your work/discussions

Further Reading:

Johnstone, G. (2002) Restorative justice ideas, values, debates. Cullompton: Willan.

Joyce, P. (2013) Criminal justice: an introduction. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, pp.269-275.

Maglione, G. (2017) Embodied victims: An archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice.
Criminology and Criminal Justice. 17(4), pp. 401-417.

McLaughlin, E. et al (2003) Restorative justice: critical issues. London: Sage.

Ministry of Justice (2012) getting it right for victims and witnesses. London: The Stationary Office.
Consultation Paper CP3/2012.

Stout, B. and Chong, H. (2008) Restorative justice: theory, policy and practice. In: Applied Criminology.
Stout, B. et al (eds.). London: Sage, pp.154-169. [Available as an ebook via the library]

Zehr, H. and Toews. B. (eds) (2004) Critical issues in restorative justice. New York: Criminal Justice Press and
Cullompton Willan.