Jordi Mas Grau, J. A. Langarita, Carme Montserrat, Giacomo Viggiani
{"title":"Exploring alternatives to the hate crimes model. Perceptions of civil society organizations regarding the application of restorative justice for bias-motivated crimes","authors":"Jordi Mas Grau, J. A. Langarita, Carme Montserrat, Giacomo Viggiani","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2301558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2301558","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139446240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deflecting a “crisis”: the opioid epidemic in Appalachia as state violence","authors":"Brian Pitman, Stephen T. Young","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2297183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2297183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of reform in revolutionary struggles: advancing imaginable, semi-imaginable, and unimaginable reforms to work towards prison abolition","authors":"Victoria Morris","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2284424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2284424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139247801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A requiem for the Unabomber","authors":"James C. Oleson","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2279312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2279312","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTTheodore John Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, died by suicide in June 2023. One of the most best known criminals of the late twentieth century, and a former Harvard mathematics prodigy with an IQ of 167, Kaczynski is remembered for the 1995 publication of his 35,000-word anti-technology essay, Industrial Society and Its Future. This work called for the rejection of technological civilization and the embracing of wild nature. Its publication led to Kaczynski’s identification, apprehension, and a convoluted set of legal proceedings that culminated in a coerced plea arrangement and his incarceration in the US federal supermax prison. Kaczynski was not permitted to introduce a defense of necessity. Instead, he was labeled as ‘mad’ by the press and his family, and identified as a paranoid schizophrenic by a court-appointed psychiatrist. But several commentators have argued that Kaczynski’s reasoning is sound. Indeed, many of Kaczynski’s observations about technology and the environment have proven to be prescient. Accordingly, a new generation of followers have adopted his anti-technology philosophy. If Kaczynski was correct about technology and the environment, this might warrant a reevaluation of his socio-theoretical writings and reconsideration of his constructed persona as a mad genius.KEYWORDS: UnabomberKaczynskianti-techclimate changeUnabomber Manifesto Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reaching for both justice and peace in Colombia: Understanding the Special Jurisdiction for Peace’s mixed approach (using both retributive and restorative justice) to deal with international crimes","authors":"Jeremy Julian Sarkin, Ines Pereira Lopes","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2258900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2258900","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn the wake of the five-decade-long armed conflict in Colombia, the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Non-Repetition was created as an ambitious system to deal with past crimes. It aims at engaging with all the pillars of transitional justice to ensure long-lasting peace and stability. Within this system, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace is tasked with delivering justice, while contributing to securing reconciliation and promoting peace. To do so, this transitional judicial body combines both retributive and restorative proceedings and sanctions. It embodies a mixed approach to criminal justice ensuring both justice and peace in the country. This approach, however, has been criticised as a lenient, and less than optimal, way of delivering peace and justice. Some see this as a methodology motivated by practical constraints and the lack of political will to pursue a more rigorous and prosecution-orientated model. This article aims at refuting such a perception by shedding light on the innovative mixed approach. It suggests that this approach might be well suited for delivering national and international criminal justice in transitional settings.KEYWORDS: Special Jurisdiction for PeaceColombiarestorative justicetransitional justiceInternational Criminal Court Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Even after the dissolution of the FARC, and despite the Government’s most recent efforts to ensure ceasefire and continue the peace talks, the Colombian conflict persists, namely, for the other armed groups, such as the National Liberation Army (ELN, or Ejército de Liberación Nacional), which remain active in the Country.2. The Peace Agreement was rejected by a slim majority in a plebiscite on 2 October 2016.3. This was not the first time Colombia adopted transitional justice, incorporating restorative justice principles. There was the ‘Justice and Peace Law’ that was adopted in 2005 after the peace agreement between the State and paramilitary units.4. Also commonly referred to by its acronym in Spanish, ‘JEP’, i.e. Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz.5. Most notably, the ICC has incorporated supposedly restorative features within its proceedings such as victim participation and reparations (Llorente, Citation2013, p. 5) with the intent of equipping this Court with the means to effectively enforce international criminal justice all the while contributing to reconciliation and long-lasting peace in transitions (De Hoon, Citation2017, p. 612; Findlay, Citation2016, p. 153). However, this incorporation remains deeply rooted in the conceptual overlap between retributive and restorative justice described above (Daly & Proietti-Scifoni, Citation2011, p. 52). However, it sets an important precedent that should not be overlook (De Hoon, Citation2017, p. 612) – that of resorting to restorative justice to make criminal trials better suited for transitional settings, but others as well","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amanda Davis Simpfenderfer, Bernice Garnett, Lance Smith, Mika Moore, Henri Sparks, Lisa Bedinger, Jon Kidde
{"title":"Development and validation of a multi-domain survey assessing student experiences with school-based restorative practices implementation: community based participatory research at work for school equity","authors":"Amanda Davis Simpfenderfer, Bernice Garnett, Lance Smith, Mika Moore, Henri Sparks, Lisa Bedinger, Jon Kidde","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2258904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2258904","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe emerging research base on Restorative Practices (RP) efficacy in schools lacks validated instruments of RP implementation fidelity that capture youth responsiveness to RP components. Therefore, members of a University-District Community Based Participatory (CBPR) project collaboratively developed the Student Restorative Culture Survey (SRCS). This study seeks to examine the construct validity of the SRCS using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test the theoretical foundations of the instrument. This study found evidence supporting the construct validity for the SRCS with a five-factor structure of RP Benefits, RP Quality, School Support, Repair Harm, and Feeling Left Out. Given that RP is rooted in an emancipatory paradigm, it is critical to ensure that implementation measures reflect contextual modifications and center student experiences.KEYWORDS: Restorative practicessurvey validationyouth voiceimplementation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour trafficking prosecution: what is not working in Spain?","authors":"Carolina Villacampa","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2204868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2204868","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite being one of the most prevalent manifestations of trafficking in human beings, labour exploitation still results in few convictions. Based on 33 interviews with 28 professionals from the criminal justice system and 5 from the field of labour, this paper analyses the obstacles these professionals face when approaching this crime in Spain as a case study of what may not be working in other Western European countries. The research results point to three types of barriers encountered when dealing with these cases: regulatory; institutional (both pretrial and extra-procedural and during the criminal proceedings themselves); and those related to professionals’ attitudes towards these cases. The difficulties that can be included in each of these areas are identified, and solutions are proposed to overcome them to make the criminal justice system’s response to this crime more effective.","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43983594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology facilitated sexual violence and abuse: exploring the what, who, where, why, when, and how of the 21st century interpersonal crime","authors":"Marina Sorochinski, Juliane Varvaro","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2216717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2216717","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, a new type of interpersonal crime has emerged where victimization happens through the use of technology and/or cyber space. The legal, law enforcement, as well as social scientific research fields have yet to fully grasp the scope of this modern crime type. In this paper, we review what is currently known on the issue with 5 Ws and 1 H approach, in terms of their current understanding, prevalence, victimization patterns, motivations, and relationship between violence in the cyberspace and offline. We end with a proposal for future directions and argue that a useful framework for researching this type of crime may be the interpersonal model first developed within the investigative psychology field for the classification and profiling of sexually violent offenses.","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42689805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Justin J. Joseph, Shantaé Motley, N. Aguado, Marlee McAbee
{"title":"The role of information on contentious firearm policy: in an examination of students attending a Historically Black University","authors":"Justin J. Joseph, Shantaé Motley, N. Aguado, Marlee McAbee","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2204905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2204905","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Following highly publicized mass shootings on college campuses, more attention has been placed on making people feel safer at places of higher learning. In response, several states have passed campus carry policies, which permit conceal carry holders to carry their firearms on campus. Lawmakers have pursued these policies while ignoring the fact that most students and employees at college and universities are unsupportive of campus carry policies. The study aims to add to the campus carry literature by investigating the role of information concerning campus carry and its source of influence on support and perceptions of S.B. 11 amongst Black students. We find that the source of knowledge, previous knowledge, and perceptions of campus crime influence support for S.B. 11. We consider invoking transformative approaches to education in order to empower underserved constituents and hold policy makers accountable when developing contentious policy.","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45490549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-encounter restorative justice interventions – now what?","authors":"F. Rosenblatt, Craig W. Adamson","doi":"10.1080/10282580.2023.2216716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2216716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The ‘encounter conception’ of restorative justice is definitively the most widespread of all, and practices that involve an encounter may well deserve to be called ‘fully restorative’. That said, an encounter between an individual, identifiable ‘victim’ and an equally individual, identifiable ‘offender’ is not always possible (or desirable). Indeed, an encounter conception of restorative justice is problematic for a variety of reasons, including for attaching people to distinct labels – those of ‘offender’ and ‘victim’ – when only a few have the ‘paradoxical privilege’ to be recognised as victims. This article is aimed at promoting an exercise of thinking beyond an encounter conception of restorative justice. We would like to argue that such an exercise facilitates the processes of us rethinking the current language of restorative justice (still too restricted compared to the current criminal justice system). It also helps us to acknowledge the movement’s wide-ranging agendas or directions (and to position ourselves within them).","PeriodicalId":10583,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Justice Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47970629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}