The dawning of a new era in social reaction to crime: promise, potential and limitations of restorative justice

Despite dramatic social changes and unprecedented technological innovations penal philosophy has undergone little change. Retribution continues to be the key principle in sentencing and judges continue their hopeless struggle to make the punishment fit the crime. It is truly baffling that the CJS ha...

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Main Author: Fattah Ezzat A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN 2012-01-01
Series:Archiwum Kryminologii
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Online Access:http://czasopisma.inp.pan.pl/index.php/ak/article/view/107/fattah_the_dawning_of_a_new_era_in_social_reaction_to_crime_10.7420AK2012A.pdf