CriticalRestorative justice.com
Why this website?
This website aims to contribute to the ongoing debates on restorative justice by providing students with a user-friendly, no-frills set of resources on restorative justice, all in one place, easy to access, and put together critically, that is, without an advocacy aim. Clearly, there’s no profession of being exhaustive here. Not only because the field is relentlessly expanding, but also because this website is a map, and as such based on the inclinations and interests of the map-maker. I hope you’ll enjoy this space for sharing knowledge on what restorative justice is, could or should be.
Giuseppe Maglione, Ph.D.
About me
My name is Giuseppe Maglione, I’m a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent and the director of the UK’s first Restorative Justice Clinic. I decided to create this virtual space for my students, since I was slightly unsatisfied with existing online resources on restorative justice.
Restorative justice has always been the center of my work, though I’m also interested in penal abolitionism, anarchism and transformative justice. I’m a father, a football fan, a sea-lover, a lazy runner…
What do I Do?
I teach criminology and criminal justice stuff
I run the Restorative Justice Clinical Program at the University of Kent
I write about justice
I research how to overcome the necessity of penal punishment
I train in conflict mediation and restorative justice
― Michel Foucault
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”