Summary: | The present paper addresses the crisis of penal procedure in the contemporary society from its epistemological basis to, then, present restorative justice as a c oncrete alternative to the traditional criminal procedure. The intention is to describe how criminal procedure got established since its modern scientific roots and, then, to show the impossibility of a satisfactory management of social conflicts a ccording to its standardized rules. After it, is argued that restorative justice is able t o better deal with social conflicts than criminal procedure, once that system does not have standardized rules and allows the stakeholders to decide the situation a ccording to their own deliberation, instead of being obliged to follow a decision from another person, usually a judge
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