RT Article
T1 Against the churn: institutionalization, transformation, and restorative justice
JF Contemporary justice review
VO 28
IS 2
SP 198
OP 219
A1 Woolford, Andrew John 1971-
A1 McVicar, Amanda
A1 Kaur, Amandeep
A2 McVicar, Amanda
A2 Kaur, Amandeep
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/193039795X
AB Drawing on twenty interviews conducted in 2022 with restorative justice practitioners and transformative justice advocates in Winnipeg, Manitoba, we examine how restorative justice navigates the churn of institutionalization. In Manitoba, this churn is strengthened through the creation of the Restorative Justice Centre as a government clearinghouse for referrals and funding. Simultaneously, anti-institutional philosophies of defunding, abolition, and decolonization have seen recent increased uptake among segments of the population. Based on our interviews, we argue that restorative programming in Manitoba has institutionalized to a degree that there is little optimism toward aligning or synthesizing restorative and transformative justice. But this does not mean each must remain its own solitude. Focusing on restorative justice and the threat of further institutionalization, we suggest restorative practitioners anchor themselves to transformative ideals, while also using transformative justice as a horizon by which they might seek to correct course when the pull of institutionalization becomes increasingly strong.
K1 Decolonization
K1 defunding
K1 Abolition
K1 Institutionalization
K1 Transformative Justice
K1 Restorative Justice
DO 10.1080/10282580.2025.2518107