Restorative utopias in dystopian times: The shaping of restorative justice in the European penal systems and policies KU Leuven
Criminology is struggling to make sense of the multiple, different and contradictory responses to crime, which also give rise to penal dystopias. The contradictions become visible especially in the simultaneous rise of imprisonment and alternative approaches, among which restorative justice. Restorative justice remains the main utopia challenging current penality, manifested in a desire to reform penal systems in their inner structures, ...