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Restorative justice approaches offer a promising alternative to formal sentencing. Victims are more satisfied, reoffending is less and at reduced costs. However, these findings are limited in scale and application that confine these approaches to relatively few cases that restrict their potential. I argue for a fundamental revision called punitive restoration that permits otherwise forbidden options like hard treatment. Punitive restoration can justify their use where they can best enable the restoration of rights for offenders in light of their circumstances as a means of fulfilling the aim of restoration instead of penal abolition.
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I am enormously grateful to the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University for comments on an earlier draft with special thanks to Albert Dzur, Douglas Husak and Richard Lippke .
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Brooks, T. (2018). Restorative Justice and Punitive Restoration. In: Gardner, M., Weber, M. (eds) The Ethics of Policing and Imprisonment. Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97770-6_8
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