Institute of Criminology Public Seminars: 'Reimagining Restorative Justice''

Speaker: Professor David O’Mahony, University of Essex

Restorative justice based interventions in criminal justice have expanded rapidly and are increasingly viewed as a legitimate, and even superior means of delivering justice. The result of this swift but piecemeal development has been that restorative justice practice has outpaced the development of restorative justice theory. This seminar takes up this challenge by reimagining a new framework for the operation of restorative justice within criminal justice. In essence, it is contended that core empowering values of agency and accountability provide a lens for reimagining how restorative justice should work and the normative goals it ought to encompass.

This seminar is open to all interested in attending, please register at Eventbrite.

If you wish to be added to the seminar mailing list, please contact: enquiries@cim.cam.ac.uk