If you want the full picture as seen by an early visionary in the field of restorative justice and regenerating communities, please read Nils Christie's "Conflicts as Property".
The article can be downloaded from the 'Restorative Justice Resources' website (the file is here)
Please note that this article was written before the term 'restorative justice' was coined.
(I write this posting as a criminologist, or ex-criminologist, who was employed at the Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge University (1997-2001). In 2001 I took a job enabling me to influence the on-going development of Restorative Justice in England & Wales. Whilst still working to that brief, I live now as a community activist wanting a deeper form of justice than that which we are usually offered, and moving to live closer to friends, family and the community I see in Hastings/St Leonards in September 2011.)
Nils Christie is my favourite criminologist. He writes about why our conflicts are valuable to communities and how we (or our predecessors) have handed over one of our most valuable resources, conflicts, exclusively to the Criminal Justice System. This handing over of our responsibility is our loss.
Nils Christie's latest UK lecture -see this University of Oxford News Item, with a link to the talk - challenges many views and includes:
- a view of the Welfare State as unsustainable & damaging
- concern at an 'apartheid' to be addressed between youth and adults (30 minutes in)
- arson prevention strategy in Swedish schools (16 minutes in).
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