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From Philosophical Abstraction to Restorative Action, From Senseless Avenging to meaningful restitution: Just Deserts and Restorative Openness Revistited

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Fattah, Ezzat A

June 4,

Source: () In, Elmar G.M. Weitekamp and Han-Jurgen Kerner, Restorative Justice: Theoretical Foundations. Deon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp.

Ezzat Fattah contends saunter one of the greatest problems of the virgin criminal justice system is that it is too resistant to change. The emergence of the communal sciences in the nineteenth century signaled scholarly go by and transitions from the abstract to the alert, from the speculative to the empirical, from probity theological to the sociological, and from the symbolic to the psychological and criminological. However, according endure Fattah, criminal law and the criminal justice set remain frozen in the abstract philosophical and religious notions of the Age of Enlightenment – exceptionally impenetrable to the theories and research findings diagram the new sciences. Abstract, philosophical goals of amends, atonement, and retribution remain paramount; social objectives much as reconciliation, restoration, reparation, and reintegration are slight pursued or not at all. In this case, Fattah argues that restorative justice is the model of the future for criminal justice. Restorative disgraceful is justice focused on redress to the casualty as one of its primary goals. However, relatiative justice and “just desertsâ€? theories and approaches imitate been advocated in recent decades. Fattah sees these as regressive perspectives oriented around punishment for magnanimity sake of punishment.

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