The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice – Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals
Abstract 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 potent...
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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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-03fdbcbaa00e4872bdfc676b7c8cc9e22025-08-20T02:15:46ZengScandinavian University PressNordic Journal of Studies in Policing2703-70452020-01-01713715910.18261/issn.2703-7045-2020-02-0518948693The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice – Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on ProfessionalsKatrine Barnekow RasmussenAbstract 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.https://www.idunn.no/njsp/2020/02/the_police_as_gatekeepers_of_restorative_justice_perspectVictim-offender mediationVOMKonfliktrådpolice discretionpolice gazerestorative justice |
| spellingShingle | Katrine Barnekow Rasmussen The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice – Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing Victim-offender mediation VOM Konfliktråd police discretion police gaze restorative justice |
| title | The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice
– Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals |
| title_full | The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice
– Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals |
| title_fullStr | The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice
– Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice
– Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals |
| title_short | The Police as Gatekeepers of Restorative Justice
– Perspectives of Professionals, Perspectives on Professionals |
| title_sort | police as gatekeepers of restorative justice perspectives of professionals perspectives on professionals |
| topic | Victim-offender mediation VOM Konfliktråd police discretion police gaze restorative justice |
| url | https://www.idunn.no/njsp/2020/02/the_police_as_gatekeepers_of_restorative_justice_perspect |
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