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Restorative Justice Empowerment.

Barton, Charles
June 4, 2015

Source: (2000) Paper presented at Just Peace? Peace Making and Peace Building for the New Millennium. Albany , Auckland. New Zealand. April 24-28, 2000.

With the growing prominence of restorative justice interventions, criminal justice is being reconceptualised in terms of a new paradigm of justice. The central concept of this new paradigm is empowerment. The paper articulates the meaning and application of this idea in restorative justice philosophy and practice.

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