{"title":"The Ins and Outs of Signals of Forgiveness in Restorative Justice","authors":"J. Shapland","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.17","url":null,"abstract":"Forgiveness has at least two parties involved: the person who has harmed and the person who has been harmed. In restorative justice it is the dyadic interaction between the harmed and the harmer, facilitated by the mediator/facilitator which is central: the communication in terms of questions and judgements about the past, willingness to interact in the present and intent for the future. Yet there is a potential army of others waiting in the wings and potentially 'hearing' that communication: supporters and those close to both harmer and harmed, the community or communities into which the harmer (and the harmed) need to re-find their place, and powerful voices (such as the media) on what is seen to be the moral order of those communities. It has been said that a criminal offence causes ripples of concern and potentially fear spreading out from the offence into the community. Can and should forgiveness be seen similarly - and what effects may this ‘forgiveness ripple’ have on the person harmed, the person who has harmed and the community?","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134293129","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":"Interpreting the Cross:","authors":"T. Gorringe","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131802460","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 Restorative Gaze","authors":"E. Stoddart","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.18","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the intersection of surveillance and restorative justice. It acknowledges the analysis of personal information integral to criminal justice processes and critiques practices of actuarial justice. The chapter is also cognisant of the shaping effect upon all parties of cultures of surveillance in everyday life. The motif of ‘surveillance from the cross’ is deployed in order to foreground the importance of solidarity with those under unjust and discriminatory surveillance. By considering the sacramental potential of technologies, space is opened for a critical and positive theological evaluation of surveillance in relational contexts. The notion of relational information is therefore proposed to recognise the tension between relational knowledge and digital information. Practical steps towards greater recognition of surveillance in restorative justice are commended.","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"68 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114014913","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":"Sin, Shame and Atonement:","authors":"C. D. Marshall","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116317709","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":"Criminology, Public Theology and Hope","authors":"A. Millie","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.12","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter draws on Christian public theology and criminology and considers hope as an alternative to the pains associated with contemporary criminal justice. The chapter draws on philosophical writings where pertinent, in particular Kantian conceptions of human dignity. Jesus’ sermon on the plain is considered that emphasised love for enemies. The implications for criminal justice are considered. The chapter then turns to the work of Paul Ricoeur who, when considering the sermon on the plain, wrote about an economy of gift. It is a logic of superabundance characterised by compassionate generosity that gives without expecting anything in return. The consequences of applying such a Christian ethical position - or as Ricoeur put it, a supra-ethical position - to secular criminal justice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122596621","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":"Conclusions","authors":"A. Millie","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529207392.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529207392.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Through the various contributions to this book some common themes have emerged. In this concluding chapter these themes are brought together in proposing a form of criminal justice framed within the context of hope, mercy and restoration, that radically challenges the retributive orthodoxy. This may be accused of utopianism; yet, it is suggested that shifts in emphasis are possible that demonstrate love. Through the various contributions a common theme of dignity emerged, that those who encounter criminal justice agencies are met with respect, irrespective of what they have done. Furthermore, that hope ought to be offered rather than pain, mercy is given rather than cruelty, and restoration to community becomes an over-riding concern, rather than retribution. A way forward for greater cross-disciplinary learning between criminology and public theology is proposed.","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114724598","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":"Three Intersections in Criminology and Public Theology","authors":"J. Burnside","doi":"10.46692/9781529207415.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529207415.004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores how public theology challenges criminal justice orthodoxies by asking, provocatively, whether Christianity has been hijacked by imprisonment. The question is systematically explored with reference to three, interrelated, strands: (1) the moral question of ‘seriousness of offence’ which undergirds the sanction of imprisonment; (2) the development of ‘Relational Justice’ as a reform dynamic for criminal justice and prison reform; and (3) the role of faith-based units in prisons. These three strands show the different ways in which juxtaposing prisons and public theology challenges criminal justice orthodoxies; critiques retributive punishment and provides the hope of restoration. They also provide worked examples of the methodologies that are required to successfully link up law with applied social sciences and theology.","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131961369","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":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123497077","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":"Sin, Shame and Atonement: A Challenge for Secular Redemption","authors":"C. D. Marshall","doi":"10.46692/9781529207415.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529207415.007","url":null,"abstract":"In expounding on wrongdoing, both criminological theory and theological reflection have been controlled by the language of guilt and punishment. Both have largely failed to factor in the role of entrenched shame in understanding and responding to human transgression, and both often display an impoverished understanding of what is involved in atoning for sin and defeating its ongoing thrall in the lives of individuals. This chapter maps out the complex ways shame functions in human experience, then considers the place of shame and honour in the biblical world. It proposes that the unique saving power ascribed to the life, death and resurrection of Christ in the New Testament, known in theological shorthand as the Atonement, includes its capacity to expose, absorb and disrupt the tyranny of shame in human experience. It suggests the gospel’s offer of spiritual regeneration provides both a paradigm for and a challenge to secular attempts to secure rehabilitation and relational renewal through the criminal justice system.","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126256817","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":"Mercy Triumphs over Judgement:","authors":"Richard W. Bourne","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850g93.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402882,"journal":{"name":"Criminology and Public Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121058016","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}