{"id":3459,"date":"2025-10-28T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmuperu.co.uk\/bjcj\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:57:32","slug":"reconceptualising-restorative-justice-for-abolitionist-purposes-proposals-for-abolitionist-restorative-justice-in-aotearoa-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmuperu.co.uk\/bjcj\/articles\/reconceptualising-restorative-justice-for-abolitionist-purposes-proposals-for-abolitionist-restorative-justice-in-aotearoa-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconceptualising Restorative Justice For Abolitionist Purposes: Proposals For Abolitionist Restorative Justice In Aotearoa\/New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;3&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;1000&#8243;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; position_horizontal=&#8221;left&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;2&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; align_mobile=&#8221;align_left_mobile&#8221; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text_color=&#8221;color-210407&#8243; text_font=&#8221;font-128611&#8243; text_size=&#8221;h3&#8243; text_weight=&#8221;500&#8243;]Articles[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_separator sep_color=&#8221;color-210407&#8243; el_height=&#8221;1px&#8221;][vc_custom_heading auto_text=&#8221;yes&#8221; text_color=&#8221;accent&#8221; text_font=&#8221;font-128611&#8243; text_size=&#8221;h1&#8243; text_weight=&#8221;500&#8243;]This is a custom heading element.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;289894&#8243;]<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 110px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\"><span class=\"font-810834\">Published<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\">28\/10\/2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">Type<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\">Article<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">Author(s)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW115444428 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW115444428 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"heading 3\">Ti Lamusse<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%\">Corresponding Authors<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">DOA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">DOI<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48411\/ypj0-gx07\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48411\/ypj0-gx07<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">Writing from the settler-colonial context of Aotearoa\/New Zealand, this paper grapples with the theoretical tensions between formal and informal responses to harm in a society without prisons. Although often-praised as a M\u0101ori-led or inspired response to harm, restorative justice has fundamentally failed to <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">provide<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\"> a meaningful alternative to imprisonment. As M\u0101ori scholars have argued, restorative justice has not delivered M\u0101ori self-determination, as guaranteed under <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">Te<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">Tiriti<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\"> o Waitangi<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\"> and international law. Despite these failures, this paper interrogates what insights can be gained from the limitations and promises of restorative justice for a justice system without prisons. It proposes a fundamental <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">reconceptualisation<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\"> of restorative justice under the title \u2018abolitionist justice<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">\u2019.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\"> It advances a conception of the state, formal and informal justice that responds to profound critiques of each, without doing away with <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">either <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">component<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84209744 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body Text\">. 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