Restoring Restorative Justice

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: B, Ottawa University, course: Penal Abolitionism, language: English, abstract: Governed by a retributive paradigm, the contemporary criminal justice system was designed in the image of a colonial institution from the past. Archaic, arbitrary, and racist among other things, this colonial legacy wi...