Research line 5: Restorative Justice

Ivo Aertsen
Tel: (+32) (0) 16/32.53.02
Fax: (+32) (0) 16/32.54.63
E-mail: Ivo.Aertsen@law.kuleuven.be
Webpage: Ivo Aertsen

Address:
Herbert Hooverplein 10 - mailbox 3418
Office 02.69 - 3000 Leuven

Members

• Monique Anderson
• Daniela Bolivar
• Vicky De Mesmaecker
• Davy DHondt
• Elli Gilbert
• Johan Goethals
• Diederik Hoedt
• Frank Hutsebaut
• Niall Kearney
• Brunilda Pali
• Stephan Parmentier
• Martien Schotsmans
• Inge Vanfraechem
• Lode Walgrave
• Xiaoyu Yuan
• Estelle Zinsstag

Affiliated Researchers

• Gie Deboutte
• Katrien Lauwaert
• Nathalie Lauwers
• Malini Laxminarayan
• Edit Törzs
• Leo Van Garsse
• Tzeni Varfi

• Restorative Justice: An International Journal
• Restorative Justice: Call for Papers
• FP7 project Alternative
• Restorative Justice related research at LINC
• Website European Forum for Restorative Justice

Restorative justice policies and regulation

• Developing Judicial Training for Restorative Justice: Towards a European Approach (JUST/2011/JPEN/AG/2977)
• Meeting the challenges of introducing victim-offender mediation in Central and Eastern Europe
• Restorative justice: an agenda for Europe – Part 1. Meeting the challenges of introducing restorative justice in Southern Europe
• Restorative Justice: an agenda for Europe - Part 2. European Union policies and regulation
• Promoting the practice of victim-offender mediation - Turkey
• Restorative Justice vs. juvenile delinquency: The Baltic States in European dimension.
• Working towards the creation of European training models for practitioners and legal practitioners in relation to restorative justice practices
• Victim-Offender Mediation with juvenile offenders in Europe

Restorative justice practices

• Restorative justice models
• Conferencing: a way forward for restorative justice in Europe
• Conferencing for serious juvenile delinquency
• Implementing Peacemaking Circles in Europe
• Restorative justice fields of application
• Research into the effects of partnership cooperation in cases of domestic violence (CO3 project Antwerp)
• Restorative justice between theory and practice: Understanding the case of China
• Developing standards for assistance to victims of terrorism
• Linkedness Project
• Family Group Conferences in schools
• Mediation at police level
• Restorative justice in prison
• Mediation and restorative justice in prison settings
• Mediation and community oriented measures in cases of hate crime and discrimination
• Training in International Family Mediation
• Restorative Justice models application (ALTERNATIVE)
• Mass Victimization and Restorative Justice. In search for the possibilities to apply restorative justice principles inthe context of dealing with the past. Case Study South Africa
• Mass victimisation and restorative justice. In search of the position of restorative justice in an integrated approachto mass victimization in post-conflict situations. Case studies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia
• Mass Victimization and Restorative Justice in Colombia: Pathways towards Peace and Reconciliation?

Psycho-social dynamics in restorative justice

• Perceptions of justice and fairness in criminal proceedings and restorative encounters: extending theories of procedural justice
• Victim-offender mediation and victim’s reparation. A victimological study in the context of Restorative Justice
• Desistance from crime: cognitive processes at work in spontaneous adult desistance, with special attention tothe effects of restorative justice principles
• Restorative Justice and Crime Prevention
• Victims and restorative justice: an empirical study of the needs, experiences and position of victims within restorative justice practices

Restorative Justice and Society

• Perceptions of security and justice: gender and cultural aspects
• Arts for social change
• Building social support for restorative justice

Socio-ethical and legal-theoretical foundations of restorative justice

• The development of a theoretical frame for ‘restorative justice’ from an ethical and social perspective
• Punishment and Sentencing in a Constitutional Democracy
• Impossible but necessary: a study on the ethics of restorative justice

ALTERNATIVE - Developing alternative understandings of security and justice through restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings within democratic societies

COST Action A21: ‘Restorative Justice Developments in Europe’