Victim-offender Mediation in Poland – The Lay Perspective
Journal Title: Archiwum Kryminologii - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
Restorative justice is a complex and multi-faceted concept, the introduction of which does not happen in a socio-political and economic vacuum. Every society engages with restorative justice in its own distinctive way as it is the society – lay people – that is always on the receiving end of restorative solutions. In this article I draw on my doctoral research that explored qualitatively how a small number of Polish people understand punishment and justice, and how their narratives inform the viability of restorative approaches to justice in Poland. In the case of Poland, it seems that the exceptionally limited interest in mediation and paucity of anticipated outcomes of victim-offender mediation is the problem. In order to explore the viability of restorative justice in the Polish context, one must therefore look beyond the legal basis and formal logistics which have been already in place for many years. I propose to consider a macro-sociological perspective, and how lay people’s understandings of punishment and justice should be seen as an avenue by which to explore certain preconditions for the viability of restorative justice. The aim of this paper is to argue that the viability of restorative justice should be approached as a process that is influenced by broader socio-economic, political and even linguistic factors.
Authors and Affiliations
Anna Matczak
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP546389
- DOI 10.7420/AK2018L
- Views 58
- Downloads 0
Analiza uwarunkowań i mechanizmów niezbędnych do zwiększenia skuteczności działań służb w realizacji zadań ustawowych w obszarze handlu ludźmi
The study aims to address the various procedural measures whose development at different levels of national legislation, as well as at the institutional level of state law enforcement agencies, may contribute both to pre...
Risk Assessment and the Safe Return and Reintegration of Trafficked Persons
Human trafficking is a complex crime and a capital perpetration against human rights and in particular women’s rights. Moreover, it is a threat to inter-/national security and freedom. People affected by trafficking ofte...
Funkcjonalność i adekwatność środka karnego i obowiązku probacyjnego nakazu opuszczenia lokalu zajmowanego wspólnie z pokrzywdzonym. Czy regulacje prawnokarne odpowiadają potrzebom osób pokrzywdzonych?
Celem publikacji jest skonfrontowanie poglądów osób pokrzywdzonych przestępstwem znęcania się na temat nakazu opuszczenia lokalu przez sprawcę z obowiązującym stanem prawnym. Uzupełnieniem badań są opinie tzw. ekspertów...
The mitigation of criminal repression against drug users by the New Czech Penal Code
The implementation of Penal Code no. 40/2009 Coll., which was adopted in 2009,is undoubtedly one of the most significant events in the field of Czech criminal lawin recent years. Among many other changes, it also modifie...
Przejawy nielegalnej migracji w Polsce
The article analyses a series of in-depth expert interviews conducted in the first half of 2015 with border guards from selected units across Poland within the framework of the project CIS – Modular Multipurpose System o...