Jacques Claessen - Restorative justice. The art of an emancipated crime approach - Inaugural address_1.pdf
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… and moral damage. This is best achieved through processes that enable all stakeholders to engage in a dialogue and reach agreements on restora tion. This could include victim-offender-mediation as well as conference models that also involve the community. In his inaugural address, Jacques Claessen sets out why he sees restorative justice – unlike criminal justice – as an emancipated and mature approach to crime, both in terms of distributive and proce- dural justice. Drawing on the Golden … voor het Bataafsche volk 1798. De eerste grondwet van Nederland, Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2005, p. 60. 7 Dear Rector Magnificus, dear colleagues and students, dear family and friends, esteemed people here in the hall and via the livestream elsewhere, Always treat every human being well More than ten years ago, I was also in this place. Then, in the con- text of my promotion to doctor. Now, because of my inauguration as endowed professor of restorative justice. Back then, I concluded my … perception and attitude.45 Ideally, a person-to-person encounter takes place. This encounter first and foremost requires an open and curious attitude towards the other person – and, all things consid- ered, also towards oneself, since through the contact with other people, one also gets to know oneself better. More than that even: a person changes through meeting others.46 The French philoso- pher Charles Pépin argues that an encounter can give rise to ‘a shock creating cracks in our shield’, …