CONSENSUS AND DISSENT IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

• Autor(a) principal: Rolim, Marcos
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Direitos Fundamentais e Democracia
• Texto Completo: https://revistaeletronicardfd.unibrasil.com.br/index.php/rdfd/article/view/2303

The article discusses the theoretical ambiguities and conceptual vagueness present in the restorative justice movement. Based on the review of classical contributions and the ongoing international controversy, we systematize the elements that constitute the core of the restorative international consensus and the central elements of the dissent that has been growing, especially the contrasting positions between the "purist" and "maximalist" visions. We then examine, based on a search through Google Scholar, the ten articles published in Portuguese and authored by Brazilian researchers best placed in the bibliometric ranking of the Publish or Perish software. We find that the previously discussed theoretical  ambiguities and indefinitions make restorative strands possible in Brazil with contrasting positions, which suggests the need for a more consistent theoretical basis for the restorative movement. We conclude by suggesting a path for overcoming some of the existing polarizations.