The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Despite a great deal of academic debate surrounding the term 'restorative justice', it would appear fair to suggest that the majority of the research in this area focuses upon the three main stakeholders involved within the process, namely the victim, the offender and the community, victim-offender mediation, and the benefits of such an approach. Nonetheless, not only can this can be seen to neglect a number of restorative justice processes, but also to underestimate the role of the facilitator. Considering how restorative justice has been increasingly embraced by criminal justice agencies in the past 30 years, this study sets out to examine how the ground-level conceptualisation and delivery of restorative justice by the Police Service relates to academic perspectives, policing policies and wider penological shifts. In turn, it will be argued, evidenced by analysis of research data derived from eight semi-structured interviews with operational front-line policing staff, that although the conceptualisation and delivery of restorative justice is influenced by all of these factors, primarily they channel into policing policies and individual discretion, which have the most direct effect on practice.
Publication Date
2015-01-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Law & Criminal Justice Review
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
213
Last Page
240
ISSN
2054-149X
Deposit Date
March 2017
Embargo Period
2024-11-01
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Ives, Michael
(2015)
"Front-Line Facilitators: A Study into the Conceptualisation and Implementation of Restorative Justice by Ground-Level Police Officers,"
The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review: Vol. 7, Article 13.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/plcjr/vol7/iss1/13