19 works
Sociedad Argentina de Justicia Restaurativa · 2023
An opinion article published by SAJuR on its website, without a personal byline. It presents communication as a pillar of restorative justice: the possibility for people to expres…
Naciones Unidas. Asamblea General · 1989
A human rights treaty adopted and opened for signature and ratification by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 44/25 of November 20, 1989, which entered into for…
Louk Hulsman · 1993
A chapter by Louk Hulsman on penal abolitionism. It argues that the acts grouped together as crimes do not form a category with a reality of its own: they have very different moti…
Howard Zehr · 2006
A brief introduction to restorative justice, written by Howard Zehr. It starts from the question of how a society should respond to harm and what justice requires when a crime occ…
Diana Márquez · 2025
An essay by Diana Márquez on how the media and the entertainment industry turn pain into spectacle and train society to desire punishment. She uses the image of the Colt 45 revolv…
Diana Márquez · 2025
An essay by Diana Márquez written after the death of Pope Francis. It recounts a 2023 experience in Unit 21 of Campana: in a Conflict Prevention and Resolution Committee she propo…
Antonia Menghini · 2023
An article explaining the general principles of the new Italian regulation of restorative justice introduced by Legislative Decree 150 of 2022. It reviews the long road before the…
Evangelina Cavanna, Giselle Méndez and C. Miguel Assis · 2022
An article that sorts out concepts often confused in the adolescent criminal justice system: socio-educational intervention, socio-educational measure, and socio-educational purpo…
Jennifer Marchand · 2025
A short opening text from a colloquium at Université Clermont Auvergne on restorative justice. The author presents the model as a complement to the classic judicial system, ground…
Marina Medan and Florencia Graziano · 2022
A socio-anthropological study of how the restorative approach is promoted in Argentine juvenile criminal justice. Drawing on interviews with members of the judicial system and an …
Michel Foucault · 2017
A collection of five lectures that Michel Foucault gave in 1973 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. They trace how truth was established in ancient Greece, in…
Gabriel Fava, Diana Márquez, Jimena Monsalve et al. · 2026
The second meeting of the Laboratorio de Saberes of the Universidad Liberté, on July 11, 2026, on what separates restorative justice from therapeutic justice and what happens when…
Nils Christie · 1992
A lecture by Nils Christie in which he argues that conflicts belong to the people involved and that criminology and the professions of the criminal justice system have been taking…
Nils Christie · 1984
A book by Nils Christie that proposes severely restricting the pain the State inflicts as a means of social control. It argues that, if pain must be caused, it should not have man…
European Forum for Restorative Justice, Tim Chapman, Malini Laxminarayan et al. · 2021
A manual from the European Forum for Restorative Justice that brings together the values on which restorative practice rests and translates them into concrete standards for servic…
Diana Márquez · 2018
A short article on mediation as a new way of achieving social pacification, written six years after its implementation in the province of Buenos Aires. It contrasts the culture th…
Giselle Méndez, C. Miguel Assis and Evangelina Cavanna · 2022
An article that takes restorative justice as a framework for designing strategies of work with and for adolescents, understanding conflicts as opportunities for learning and for i…
Sociedad Argentina de Justicia Restaurativa · 2023
An opinion article published by SAJuR on its website, without a personal byline. It defines restorative justice by contrast with the traditional punitive system and lists its prin…
Diana E. Márquez · 2026
An essay derived from a paper at the 2nd Argentine Congress on Restorative Justice and Practices (March 2026). It presents restorative justice as a cultural response to punitive h…