The Psychology of Restorative Justice: Creating the Inner and Outer Space for Change – An Observation of Restorative Justice Meetings

Restorative justice (RJ) is one of the most studied practices of criminal justice, and yet it is often far from being used in the way that its proponents hope (Braithwaite, 2002; Gavrielides and Artinopoulou, 2014; Shapland et al., 2006). The truth is that we are still learning how to do RJ well. For instance, we know that RJ works, but our knowledge of why and/or when it works, from a psychological perspective, is limited (Gavrielides and Worth, 2013).