This is a collection by a lovely group of Europeans who choose to wear flowers rather than armour, as Nils Christie expresses it. The book takes us to Viennas Womens Caf where Muslim and non-Muslim women sit in the restorative circle, to action research on the politics of Roma exclusion in Hungary, to intercultural borderlands of Serbia, Northern Ireland and Belgium. It shows that justice and security can be transformed in the face of intercultural challenges. This is accomplished by rethinking restorative justice in terms of a politics of participation, hope and conviviality. Restorative justice must meet the challenges of redistribution (the what of justice), recognition (the who of justice), and (political) representation, as Nancy Fraser and Iris Marion Young put it. The result of this reframing is a fresh, challenging contribution to the restorative justice literature. A vital book for reflective scholars of restorative thought.
John Braithwaite, Distinguished Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University, Australia
Intercultural and superdiverse urban environments have created the need for scholars to explore new tools and vocabularies in which attention shifts from the classic themes of power and order to a more comprehensive approach of security. By focussing on the possibilities created by restorative approaches to justice and security, this book serves the generally interested reader as well as the scientific reader and provides an important source of discussion to draw inspiration and motivation from.
Marc Schuilenburg, Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe
The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat. This book challenges predominant and fear inducing approaches of justice and security as they appear in intercultural contexts, and develops alternative understandings by exploring both theoretically and empirically the potential of dialogic and restorative justice oriented actions in sensitive areas of living together. The book offers unique opportunities for rethinking frames of (in)justice, (in)security, and their intersections, and for reshaping European practices and policies in a more sustainable way.
This book is based on an innovative and exploratory action research project in four European countries, which challenges the obsessive focus on security concerns, the merging of the security discourse with intercultural contexts, and the emphasis on technology and surveillance as a way to conceive the doing of security. Both the project and the book offer another vision on what security means and how it can be done, by multiplying participatory encounters between different groups in society, promoting opportunities for deliberations and dialogue about alternative forms of conviviality.
The book is one of two volumes resulting from the work by a group of researchers in six European countries having cooperated intensively during four years in ALTERNATIVE, an action research project funded under the EU Seventh Framework Programme.
Brunilda Pali is a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven Institute of Criminology. She has worked as a researcher on several EU-funded projects, besides the FP7 project ALTERNATIVE. She publishes on multiple themes, including restorative justice, critical criminology, security, social movements, gender, and arts. She is co-editor of the book Critical Restorative Justice.
Ivo Aertsen is Full Professor of Criminology at the University of Leuven and leads the Leuven Institute of Criminology Research Line on Restorative Justice and Victimology. His main fields of research and teaching are victimology, penology and restorative justice. He is Editor-in-Chief of Restorative Justice: An International Journal. He was the academic coordinator of the European FP7 project ALTERNATIVE.
Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
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39 Restorative Policing
Concepts, Theory and Practice
Kerry Clamp and Craig Paterson
40 The Penal Voluntary Sector
Philippa Tomczak
41 Transforming Summary Justice
Modernisation in the Lower Criminal Courts
Jennifer Ward
42 Stop and Search and Police Legitimacy
Ben Bradford
43 Young Offenders and Open Custody
Tove Pettersson
44 Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence
Legal, Social and Therapeutic Dimensions
Edited by Estelle Zinsstag and Marie Keenan
45 Policing Hate Crime
Understanding Communities and Prejudice
Gail Mason, JaneMaree Maher, Jude McCulloch,
Sharon Pickering, Rebecca Wickes and Carolyn McKay
46 The Special Constabulary
Historical Context, International Comparisons and Contemporary Themes
Edited by Karen Bullock and Andrew Millie
47 Action Research in Criminal Justice
Restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings
Edited by Inge Vanfraechem and Ivo Aertsen
48 Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe
Edited by Brunilda Pali and Ivo Aertsen
49 Monitoring Penal Policy in Europe
Edited by Gatan Cliquennois and Hugues de Suremain
50 Big Data, Crime and Social Control
Edited by Ale Zavrnik
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Names: Pali, Brunilda, editor. | Aertsen, Ivo, editor.
Title: Restoring justice and security in intercultural Europe / edited by Brunilda Pali and Ivo Aertsen.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 48 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017017396| ISBN 9781138120938 (hardback) ISBN 9781315651439 (ebook)
