Violation and the emancipatory subject: restorative justice and a tale of two absences.
In this paper I explore the philosophical grounds of critiques of restorative justice and their ethical limits by addressing two absences. George Pavlich's critical theory of restorative justice qua the 'imitor paradox' provides a unifying critical account that helpfully illuminates the ways in whic...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 383 - 403 |
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