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Recent legislation on offenders and victims of crime: restorative justice or cooption?

Williams, Brian
June 4, 2015

Source: (2005) Community Safety Journal. 4(1): 13-19.

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. Author’s abstract.

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