RT Article
T1 ‘Spaces’ for restorative development: international case studies on restorative services
JF Contemporary justice review
VO 25
IS 2
SP 143
OP 162
A1 Hobson, Jonathan
A2 Payne, Brian
A2 Bangura, Kabba
A2 Hester, Richard
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1815830085
AB This paper examines the concept of the ‘spaces’ into which restorative services develop. We conceptualise such ‘spaces’ as: social, the people and communities; as political, the will for developments; as physical, the geography and facilities; and as economic, dependent on the resources available. The first case study examines the hub-and-spoke model from Gloucestershire, England, where a top-down approach with buy-in at the statutory level provides ‘space’ for institutional engagement and integration of restorative practice. The second examines community-led restorative services in Belfast, Northern Ireland, originally tackling paramilitary violence they now fill a ‘space’ in local communities caused by a distrust of the state. The final case study is from Kenema City, Sierra Leone, where a post-conflict and post-Ebola ‘space’ is filled by an urban agriculture scheme aiming to divert young people from harmful activity and to reintegrate into society. Across the three cases in this paper, we hope to show that the types of ‘space’ we identify can be an important conceptual tool in helping to understand how and why restorative services develop, the provision they offer, and the capacities they haves to expand.
K1 post-conflict
K1 Community Building
K1 Transition
K1 Transformation
K1 top-down and bottom-up justice
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 Restorative Justice
DO 10.1080/10282580.2022.2044802