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A Humanist Foundation for Restitution
Author(s) -
MACKAY ROBERT E.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.1993.tb00154.x
Subject(s) - restitution , underpinning , articulation (sociology) , humanism , foundation (evidence) , epistemology , sociology , economic justice , postmodernism , perspective (graphical) , political science , law , law and economics , philosophy , computer science , civil engineering , artificial intelligence , politics , engineering
This paper makes a case for an ethical underpinning for restorative justice. This approach is developed from a neo‐Aristotelian perspective. It adapts the conceptual framework of Alasdair MacIntyre for the articulation and resolution of epi‐stemological crises in traditions of enquiry, to the task of providing a critical and analytic framework for considering the crisis of rationale and practice in the contemporary criminal justice‐penal archipelago. The author argues that Restitution, conceived in neo‐Aristotelian terms, provides a resolution of that crisis. Finally, he foreshadows a debate to be had between the neo‐Aristotelian position, and that of Critical Theory on the issue of legitimizing Restitution.