Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Abstract
This essay argues that, while many restorative processes are quite valuable, there is the potential for their use to produce results that conflict with the community's shared intuitions of justice and to thereby undermine the criminal law's moral credibility. Because such moral credibility can have practical crime-control value, it ought not be undermined unless the crime-control benefits of doing so clearly outweigh the costs. In practice, it is entirely possible to rely upon restorative processes in ways that avoid injustice and that assure justice is done.
Keywords
shared intuitions of justice, crime control
Publication Title
University of St. Thomas Law Journal
Repository Citation
Robinson, Paul H., "Restorative Processes & Doing Justice" (2006). All Faculty Scholarship. 597.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/597
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Publication Citation
3 U. St. Thomas L. J. 421 (2006)