In den letzten Jahren hat die Europäische Union verstärkt die Belange von Opfern in den Blick genommen, was eine opferbewusstere und restorativere Haftpolitik voranbrachte. In den Justiz vollzugsanstalten sowohl in Europa als auch in den Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada, werden eine Vielzahl restorativer …

This critical, literature-review based research project, inspired by the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, examines the limitations and possibilities of restorative justice in a time of war. Any armed conflict creates and amplifies the need for extreme militarisation and securitisation, accompanied …

The article describes what a restorative city is by looking at research, experiences in different countries and by describing the developments in Restorative City Wrocław. A restorative city is a city that recognises its urban environment as a network of relations in which – in the case of conflict – …

Hasskriminalität gegen LSBTI-Personen ist aktueller denn je. Die Folgen von Hasskriminalität sind gravierend für die Opfer. „Der Täter soll verstehen, was er mir angetan hat“ äußern viele Betroffene, aber in der gängigen strafrechtlichen Verfolgung ist kein Platz für dieses Bedürfnis. In der Restorative …

According to John Braithwaite (2004), a distinguished criminology professor at the Australian National University, restorative justice is a process where all stakeholders affected by an injustice have an opportunity to discuss how they have been affected by the injustice and to decide what should be …

The aim of this article is to present the objectives of a customised international partnership project Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) project, and discuss activities undertaken for the development of restorative justice in Poland and other partner countries.

A workshop that took place on the conference "The Restoration of Normality – Mirroring the Past in the Future" with the themes (among others) domestic violence, restorative justice, social support for ex-offenders, education & training and building up a probation service.

The concept of a restorative city is one of the most recent and fascinating developments in the field of restorative justice theory and practice. Despite the lack of universal model or standards of implementation, the concept of a restorative city can be defined as a process that aims at shaping both …

This article draws on Robinson, McNeill and Maruna’s argument (2012) about the adaptability of community sanctions and measures, observed through four distinctive penal narratives, in order to shed light on the regional development of community service in Wroclaw, Poland. While the managerial adaptation …

Victim-offender contact has been studied extensively in prisons, but research on contact between victims and mentally disordered offenders in forensic mental health settings is lacking. Therefore, an exploratory study was conducted on contact between victims and offenders in four Dutch forensic psychiatric …