Między potępieniem a zadośćuczynieniem. Idea i praktyki sprawiedliwości naprawczej w kontekście resocjalizacji przestępców
Between Condemnation and Restoration. The Idea and Practices of Restorative Justice in the Context of the Rehabilitation of Offenders

Summary/Abstract: This paper outlines the meaning of restorative justice in the context of the treatment of offenders and the approach to crime, including its genesis, as well as different forms and methods. The following aspect analyzed in this paper is a significant growth of importance of the idea of restorative justice in the process of rehabilitation of offenders during and after serving the sentence, which may inspire further systemic reforms of prison systems and crime prevention.Research methods include mostly the interpretative content analysis supported by source analysis and a historical method.The outcomes delineate the evolution of different approaches to crime at the crossroads of philosophy, special education, and criminal policy. This analysis leads through the turns in the development of thinking about offenders and crimes theycommit. Restorative justice is discussed here as an instrument of a psychological, social, and institutional factors for the facilitation of crime prevention, as well as the treatment of offenders. The results of the analysis confront the hitherto approaches, revealing them as less effective compared to the restorative one that is gaining signi- ficance in the 21st Century.The ongoing implementation of restorative justice to rehabilitation theory and practice not only seems to have the potential of more efficient prevention of relapse, and further labeling of offenders after the release from prison. Moreover, it also implies the need for structural changes in prison systems in general. In contrast to sometimes irrational foundations underlying social and institutional approaches to offenders in the past, such an integrative approach focused on research and scientific data translates to the enhancement in the efficacy of rehabilitation of offenders. Besides, it reveals the importance of more comprehensive and long-term thinking about rehabilitation.

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