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Hobson, Jonathan 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8081-6699 and Payne, Brian
(2022)
Building restorative services: considerations on top-down and bottom-up approaches.
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 71.
Art 100555.
doi:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2022.100555
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Abstract
Restorative services can develop from the bottom-up, as community-led schemes, or from the top-down, as institutionally or organisationally-led programmes. This paper examines the challenges both types of service face, drawing on interviews with practitioners, service commissioners, and academics working across England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Sierra Leone. The findings suggest that restorative projects face significant challenges: bottom-up projects often lack the resources that come with institutional recognition and may struggle to achieve the acceptance and integration into other state services. If they do achieve this integration, they risk alienating the communities from which they emerged. Top-down projects may enjoy greater funding security and have the benefit of institutional acceptance, but often struggle to engage community members because they lack the on-the-ground legitimacy. Overall, we find that both are important; both fill a ‘space’ of need, and both contribute to the continued development and integration of restorative work.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology. H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology. > HV6001 Criminology |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences |
| Research Priority Areas: | Society and Learning |
| Depositing User: | Jonathan Hobson |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2022 14:34 |
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2024 04:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/11563 |
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