Recent legislation on offenders and victims of crime: restorative justice or co‐option?
Brian Williams
(Community and Criminal Justice Studies Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester)
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Abstract
This paper reviews some recent criminal justice legislation and policy in England and Wales and considers whether the changes introduced genuinely implement new, restorative approaches or whether attempts have been made to use the rhetoric of restorative justice for other purposes.
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Citation
Williams, B. (2005), "Recent legislation on offenders and victims of crime: restorative justice or co‐option?", Safer Communities, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200500003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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