RT Article
T1 Embodied victims: an archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 17
IS 4
SP 401
OP 417
A1 Maglione, Giuseppe
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741023912
AB This article seeks to provide a historical-critical framework to reconstruct and discuss how the crime victim is portrayed within theoretical literature, policy and legal documents on restorative justice, with an emphasis on England and Wales. It first centres on a description of the most deep-rooted and wide-ranging discourses on the victim’s characteristics within restorative justice. Once these features have been organized into an ‘ideal’ model, the article traces the conditions which fed into its development, that is, the cultural context within which this model has emerged. The overall goal is not to test the ‘ideal victim’ within restorative justice, but rather to explore how this methodological tool, within a historical and critical approach, might help to shed light on some taken-for-granted assumptions of restorative justice and their legal, policy and practical implications, thus contributing to the critical assessment of this acclaimed “new frontier” of contemporary penality.
K1 Archaeology
K1 Conditions of possibility
K1 Ideal victim
K1 Foucault, Michel
K1 Restorative justice
DO 10.1177/1748895816677172