The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice – Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals
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The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice – Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals. / Rasmussen, Katrine Barnekow.
In: Nordisk Politiforskning, Vol. 2/2020, 2020, p. 137-159.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice – Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals
AU - Rasmussen, Katrine Barnekow
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article concerns the screening processes of the police-based National Danish Victim Offender Mediation (VOM) programme. Depending on police district and individual police officers, my data point to large variations in practice in the programme’s routines of informing potential parties about VOM. The article’s analytical points of departure are research on police discretion – in Scandinavian police research known as the police gaze – as well as the Goffmanian framework of roleplay and stigma. On this basis, I look into how the police gaze interacts with ideals of impartial mediation in the screening of cases for the programme. My data indicate that both conscious and unconscious casting practices influence which potential VOM parties are informed about the possibility of VOM. In this regard, the police perception of and access to data on an offender can be decisive. The Norwegian Mediation Service is included as a source of comparison with more impartial inclinations.
AB - This article concerns the screening processes of the police-based National Danish Victim Offender Mediation (VOM) programme. Depending on police district and individual police officers, my data point to large variations in practice in the programme’s routines of informing potential parties about VOM. The article’s analytical points of departure are research on police discretion – in Scandinavian police research known as the police gaze – as well as the Goffmanian framework of roleplay and stigma. On this basis, I look into how the police gaze interacts with ideals of impartial mediation in the screening of cases for the programme. My data indicate that both conscious and unconscious casting practices influence which potential VOM parties are informed about the possibility of VOM. In this regard, the police perception of and access to data on an offender can be decisive. The Norwegian Mediation Service is included as a source of comparison with more impartial inclinations.
KW - Faculty of Law
KW - Victim-offender mediation
KW - VOM
KW - Konfliktråd
KW - police discretion
KW - police gaze
KW - restorative justice
U2 - 10.18261/issn.2703-7045-2020-02-05
DO - 10.18261/issn.2703-7045-2020-02-05
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2/2020
SP - 137
EP - 159
JO - Nordisk Politiforskning
JF - Nordisk Politiforskning
SN - 1894-8693
ER -
ID: 273296566