Concerns about the meaning of ‘restorative justice’ from a Chinese criminologist’s perspective
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Date Issued
2023
Publisher
Brill
Journal
The International Journal of Restorative Justice
Volume
6
Issue
3
Start page
482
End page
492
Abstract
As a Hong Kong–born Chinese, and owing to Christian belief at a fairly young age, the principles of restorative justice were always upheld when I worked with misbehaving children and delinquents as a social worker. After putting in some years of frontline social work practice, I became a social work educator and criminologist in the late 1980s and continued to advocate for the use of restorative justice in the Greater China region. This article reflects my direct experience with restorative practice and research on restorative justice. Over the years, I have advocated the use of restorative justice to handle youth offenders, resolve the vicious cycle of school bullying and mediate interpersonal conflict. I believe restorative responses can be used to address problems, conflicts and injustices in other social fields as well, such as schools, care and welfare, neighbourhoods and workplaces. This paper talks about how restorative approaches be used to repair the harm done after an untoward incident and restore relationships for the benefits of the perpetrator, victims and stakeholders in the community.
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