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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 210-229 |
| Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
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Introducing and theorising an in-prison restorative justice programme : the second-generation Sycamore Tree Project. / Anderson, Jane Estelle.
In: The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2018, p. 210-229.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Introducing and theorising an in-prison restorative justice programme
T2 - the second-generation Sycamore Tree Project
AU - Anderson, Jane Estelle
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article introduces an inprison restorative justice programme: the second-generation Sycamore Tree Project (STP-2). The programme brings together crime victims and unrelated offenders in a prison setting to discuss and address the harm of crime to their lives. In the first part of the article, description is given to how STP-2 has evolved in Australia from a ‘faith based’ programme to one that is restorative. In the second part, three anthropological theories are used to provide explanation and prediction of the transformative effects of inprison restorative justice programming on prisoners as informed by STP-2. The prisoner-participant is viewed as a ‘person’ who, in liminal conditions, is afforded agency to create a meaningful narrative that is directed to revising how one is to associate with others in morally acceptable ways. The article concludes with a comparison between STP-1 and STP-2, and some proposals for research beyond this theoretical excursion.
AB - This article introduces an inprison restorative justice programme: the second-generation Sycamore Tree Project (STP-2). The programme brings together crime victims and unrelated offenders in a prison setting to discuss and address the harm of crime to their lives. In the first part of the article, description is given to how STP-2 has evolved in Australia from a ‘faith based’ programme to one that is restorative. In the second part, three anthropological theories are used to provide explanation and prediction of the transformative effects of inprison restorative justice programming on prisoners as informed by STP-2. The prisoner-participant is viewed as a ‘person’ who, in liminal conditions, is afforded agency to create a meaningful narrative that is directed to revising how one is to associate with others in morally acceptable ways. The article concludes with a comparison between STP-1 and STP-2, and some proposals for research beyond this theoretical excursion.
KW - Sycamore Tree Project
KW - human condition
KW - liminality
KW - inprison restorative justice programming
KW - narrative
U2 - 10.5553/IJRJ/258908912018001002003
DO - 10.5553/IJRJ/258908912018001002003
M3 - Article
VL - 1
SP - 210
EP - 229
JO - The International Journal of Restorative Justice
JF - The International Journal of Restorative Justice
SN - 2589-0891
IS - 2
ER -