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Restorative Justice as a mean to effective crime control and alternative to imprisonment. Conflict as property revisited
Restorative Justice as a mean to effective crime control and alternative to imprisonment. Conflict as property revisited

Author(s): Marta Płatek
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: restorative justice; crime control; alternative for imprisonment

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the route of restorative justice in Poland – from the very idea towards its implementation in criminal law, criminal procedures, and also as an alternative for imprisonment. It discusses the processes of the development of mediation institute and other forms of restorative justice in Poland, emphasizing the problems that have been faced and the ways to overcome those difficulties. It also stresses the possible dangers that, the author argues, we are not willing to see yet. Perceiving a crime as a conflict, and conflict as property that should belong to parties involved in it, the author points out to the danger within benign developments of rational policy, which might also lead to stealing the conflict from those it belongs to. Voting for more severe punishment and, thus, using victims as a pretext for making criminal law to serve political interests – is one of the identified risks. So the article, on one side, highlights the importance to keep restorative idea and practice as a tool to[…]

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 135-150
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English
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