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Contemporary Justice Review
Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice
Volume 16, 2013 - Issue 4
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What harm, whose justice?: excavating the restorative movement

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Pages 445-460 | Received 31 Jul 2012, Accepted 13 Dec 2012, Published online: 15 Nov 2013
 

Abstract

The city of Hull in the northeast of England gave itself the ambitious task of becoming the world’s first restorative city. The aim of this strategy was to create a more socially and emotionally confident youth population which in turn would encourage a more entrepreneurial and aspirational outlook across the City. Based on a two-year National Lottery-funded project exploring peoples’ experiences of restorative approaches and a Knowledge Transfer Project to help develop restorative skills, the development of restorative justice is analysed. How does a restorative classroom, workplace, or family really behave? Is there a common objective within, and across, all restorative initiatives and if so, what is it? The answer to these questions is that communication breakdown can be understood as the common harm within, and across the restorative movement. This raises some interesting questions and challenges for zemiology where both restorative justice and social harm perspectives contain quite different notions of harm suggesting that neither has yet developed a clear or solid foundation upon which to build an alternative focus to criminal harms.

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank the UK National Lottery BIG Grant scheme and the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) in conjunction with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for funding the two projects that led to this research. We would also like to thank our partners on these projects, Hull City Council and the Goodwin Development Trust.

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