CC211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nils Christie, Restorative Justice
Document Summary
Crime impacts victims, offenders, and the community. Confrontational: face-to face contact: people learn to do that through rj. Conflict is embraced i rj clarify why crime happened: the way the courts do punishment being a bad thing. Conflict as property is a published article. Earlier developer in the west, taking the old idea of rj and turning it into a new concept. Conflict isn"t something to be solved, but something to be owned: you own up to your own mistakes and fix them. State has stolen conflict it has been embraced by the public/community: social deviance. If you do something bad, don"t do it again: losing opportunities due to the origin of crime. We don"t like having confrontation: we don"t like confronting people. Loss of learning: origins of crime. Loss of conversation whose at fault for committing a crime: questions aren"t answered. Debates over morality: we like to shame people, in order to try to simplify the issue.
