Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters: Towards a new European Perspective Comparative research in 11 countries

Under the Specific Programme Criminal Justice of the European Commission (Dire­ctorate-General Justice – Directorate B: Criminal Justice), the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece had succes­s­fully submitted a relevant research proposal and took over the coordination of a research project (JUST/2010/JPEN/AG/1534) that aimed at the promotion and the further diffusion of restorative justice in Europe. The title of the project was: “The 3E Model for a restorative justice strategy in Europe” and the full subtitle: “The geographic distribution of restorative justice in 11 European Countries and the configuration of an Effe­ctive – Economic – European Strategy Model for its further diffusion”.

The project was composed by two main branches, aiming at the development of a restorative justice response to crime in 11 European countries: a) a comparative study of 11 European countries from the North (Finland, Denmark), Western Central (Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands), Eastern Central (Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria) and South Europe (Spain, Greece, Turkey), and b) a relevant project aiming at the organization of a coherent strategy, the identification and the diffusion of effective measures and proce­dures and the exchange of good and cost-effective practices through a flexible and easily applicable Model, for their wider adoption and their better application in Europe.

The country reports and the most useful findings of this project (i.e. the compa­rative research) are presented at the present book.

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Preface

9Angelika Pitsela & Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou

Introduction

11Angelika Pitsela, Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou, Athanasia Antonopoulou & Cha­rala­mpos Karagiannidis

IPART

The Country Reports on Restorative Justice

23Bulgaria, Dobrikna Chankova

45Denmark, Anette Storgaard

63Finland, Pirjo Laitinen & Mirva Lohiniva-Kerkelä

77Germany, Andrea Păroşanu

101Greece, Vasso Artinopoulou

125Hungary, Ilona Görgényi & Judit Jacsó

157The Netherlands, Irene Sagel-Grande

187Poland, Barbara Stańdo-Kawecka & Joanna Deszyńska

213Spain, Esther Giménez-Salinas i Colomer, Lara Toro i Lienas & Samantha Salsench i Linares

249Turkey, Füsun Sokullu-Akinci

269The United Kingdom, Theo Gavrielides

IIPART

Towards a new European Perspective for Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters: Comparative Analysis and Proposals

Angelika Pitsela, Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou, Athanasia Antonopoulou & Charalampos Karagiannidis

3111. Comparative Conclusions on Country Reports, Evaluation Tools and Key Pra­cti­tioners Interviews

3111.1. Overview of the traditional Criminal Procedure System

3131.2. Overview of the Legal Frame of Restorative Justice

I. Restorative Justice as an overall and general scheme or fragmented and

313incoherent? Through specific law provisions or in the “shadow of the law”?

II. Restorative Justice applied to any kind of Crime or to specific Categories of

319Crimes?

3211.3. Restorative Justice in different Stages of Criminal Proceedings

322I. Restorative Justice at Police Level

327II. Restorative Justice at Prosecution Level

333III. Restorative Justice at Court Level

342IV. Restorative Justice at Correctional and Re-integration Level

3461.4. The Key Practitioners’ Approach of Restorative Justice

347Ι. A General Approach of Restorative Justice

352II. Restorative Justice Frame of Implementation

364III. On Restorative Justice Obstacles and Good Practices

3661.5. The Obstacles and the Potential of Restorative Justice in the participant Countries

366I. Technical, organizational or/and operational Obstacles

370II. Ideological and conceptual Obstacles

3712. Recommendations and Proposals

3712.1. The 3E-RJ-Model

372I. Strategy Suggestions

375II. Definitions

376III. Basic Principles and fundamental Safeguards of Restorative Justice

377IV. Strategy Guidelines

3812.2. The Proposal of a Directive for Restorative Justice in European Union

381I. The Need for a Directive on Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters

381II. Directive 2012/29/EU of the 25th of October

III.The proposed Content for a Directive on Restorative Justice in Criminal

383Matters

389References

Λεπτομέρειες

Κωδικός:SKL-978-960-568-001-5

ISBN:978-960-568-001-5

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