Masahiro Suzuki

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Loughborough University

While many studies on restorative justice conferencing (RJC) for youth offenders have shown favourable outcomes such as victim satisfaction and fairness, and offender accountability and perceived legitimacy, other studies have demonstrated more problematic outcomes in terms of mutual understanding, sincerity of apology and reoffending. Given the co...

Since interpersonal forgiveness has been considered a 'gift' that should not be forced on victims in restorative justice (RJ), the role of forgiveness in RJ remains peripheral. In this paper, we aim to advance the role of forgiveness in RJ. However, we do not focus on interpersonal forgiveness. We instead focus on another dimension of forgiveness:...

From ‘what works’ to ‘how it works’ in research on restorative justice conferencing While many empirical studies on restorative justice conferencing have been conducted in the context of ‘what works’, research on ‘how it works’ is scarce. Little is known about how, in what conditions and for whom restorative justice conferencing ‘works’. In this ar...

A systematic effort to answer in what ways and contexts the claims of restorative justice (RJ) prove persuasive is lacking. We address this gap through a metasynthesis of qualitative studies. Drawing on 26 studies identified through the systematic literature search, we identified three overarching themes to understand “how RJ works”: (1) opportunit...

This article aims to contribute to youth justice policy making for rural Australia. We use Doel-Mackaway’s rights-based model for the participation of First Nations young people in public decision-making to critically reflect on No Dramas, a participatory action research project conducted in regional Queensland. The project involved young people co...

This is the final article in a two-part series providing a snapshot of the main findings and discussion from our recent integrative literature review on specialist approaches to managing sexual assault proceedings. Part one of the series laid the foundations for understanding the magnitude of the problem of sexual violence, the unique nature and im...

The emergence of tertiary desistance underscores the need to go beyond the current focus on behavioral and identity/cognitive transformation in desistance research and take into account the social context that impacts desisters. This study aims to explore the experiences of people with a criminal history during the tertiary desistance phase by cond...

In restorative justice (RJ), forgiveness is usually eschewed because it is narrowly defined as a bilateral process. However, this conceptualisation neglects the multi-dimensionality of forgiveness in RJ because forgiveness can take place beyond an interpersonal level. We aim to shed light on the intrapersonal dimension of forgiveness in RJ. By rede...

Offender accountability is a primary goal of restorative justice meetings. Yet existing research on restorative justice demonstrates wide variation in how accountability is defined in research and achieved in practice. Empirical research also shows offenders sometimes struggle with providing information or demonstrating culpability, and victims are...

There is growing international recognition that the justice system's response to the problem of sexual violence requires reform. This two-part series provides a snapshot of the main findings and discussion from a recent integrative literature review on specialist approaches to managing sexual assault proceedings. Part one is designed to provide a c...

In the past decade, desistance research has attracted immense research attention, which has necessitated the clarification of the overall picture of desistance research in terms of methodology, definition, and theory. Using the systematic quantitative literature review method, we seek to provide an overview of English-written peer-reviewed journal...

This study delves into the critical issue of access to justice in Bangladesh, particularly focusing on the challenges individuals face within the formal criminal justice system. Significant barriers to achieving equal access to justice in the country include socioeconomic disparities, corruption, discrimination, and judicial backlogs. The study arg...

Background: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has transformed from a private matter into a global concern. Although progress has been made in enhancing police responsiveness to IPV, research on interventions in IPV cases involving children remains limited. Objective: This study investigates how police officers' responses vary depending on the nature...

Restorative justice was initially used for minor crimes, but it has been increasingly used to address the aftermath of violent crimes. Previous studies have indicated that restorative justice can be effective in reducing the harmful effects of violent victimization. However, there is limited research on how restorative justice can support victim re...

Sexual violence is a life altering experience for victim-survivors, and its impacts differ for every person. In the immediacy of a sexual assault, victim-survivors can experience intense fear, dissociation, memory loss, and confusion. Many will go on to experience a diverse array of profound psychological and physical health burdens. Anxiety, panic...

Introduction Young people in a regional Central Queensland community identified concerns related to their health and health behaviours, but have limited access to health information. Objective To explore the youth health perspectives and priorities of young people in regional Queensland and identify how young people prefer to access health informa...

The rapid growth of restorative justice (RJ) has brought myths into the literature. Daly (2002) is among the most important demythologization attempt in the literature. This paper revisits the four myths that were discussed in this seminal paper: (1) RJ is an oppositional concept to retributive justice; (2) RJ is rooted in Indigenous justice and th...

The rapid growth of restorative justice (RJ) has brought myths into the literature. K. Daly’s “Restorative Justice: The Real Story” ( Punishment and Society 4(1), 55–79, 2002) is among the most important demythologization attempts in the literature. This article revisits the four myths that were discussed in this seminal article: (1) RJ is an oppos...

Like other industrialised countries, Japan has experienced a rapid increase in the proportion of incarcerated older adults. This increase is problematic because prisons were not designed to accommodate the needs of the older adults who increasingly fill them, leading to immense financial, legal, and human costs as jurisdictions struggle to adapt to...

From ‘what works’ to ‘how it works’ in research on restorative justice conferencing: the concept of readiness This article was published earlier in the International Journal of Restorative Justice (2020, nr. 3) and is translated into Dutch for this issue. While many empirical studies on restorative justice conferencing have been conducted in the co...

While apology has only a secondary role in restorative justice (RJ), an apology is prevalent in the RJ process. This is promising, but problematic is that there seems to be a gap in the perceived sincerity of apology between victims and offenders. Since less is known about why this gap exists, this paper extends our knowledge about under what condi...

Restorative justice is an innovative justice response to crime and offending that takes many forms such as victim-offender meetings, family group conferencing and youth justice conferencing, and sentencing or peacemaking circles. While restorative practices are used in a wide variety of contexts such as schools and workplaces to respond to and reso...

Juvenile delinquency is always seen as a public health problem which needs intervention at various levels. Identifying which factors may lead juveniles to delinquency is a long-standing question among criminologists. This remains the case in Malaysia. There are studies that have explored the impact of problem-solving skills, low socioeconomic statu...

The apology-forgiveness cycle is a simple but powerful process for conflict resolution. Given the prevalence of apology and forgiveness in restorative justice (RJ), the apology-forgiveness cycle may take place. However, there is a lack of a theoretical understanding of the relationship between apology and forgiveness in the RJ processes. After iden...

governance)研究を理論的背景に置き、日本の刑事 政策における地域間の異質性・同質的を検討することを目的とした。具体的には、再犯防止推進法に基づいて策定され た 42 都道府県の地方再犯防止計画を対象とし、テキストマイングによって①各都道府県の再犯防止推進計画でどのよう な事柄が重視されているのか、②重視する点において各都道府県間に地域性があるのかを検討した。その結果、①「出 所者の特性に配慮した政策を行うこと」を重視する「継続的支援コード」および「機関間の連携を推進すること」を重 視する「連携コード」の出現頻度が相対的に高いこと、②京都・兵庫を除く都道府県は概ね等質であり、大きな地域性 は見られないことなどが示された。この結果について、国と地方における資源の非対称性の観点から考察し...

In the context of youth offending, restorative justice (RJ) is well-established in Australia and New Zealand, and research has established clear benefits of RJ for victims and offenders. On the other hand, RJ also faces substantial roadblocks or challenges that are frequently overlooked in scholarly research on Australia and New Zealand, and there...

Japanese youth justice has experienced several reforms to date. Currently, a radical revision is under consideration: to lower the age of criminal majority from 20 years to 18 years. Japanese scholars and practitioners have since been engaged in debates over this proposal. Drawing on existing empirical research on youth offending and juvenile justi...

Nils Christie’s concept of ‘conflicts as property’ has become axiomatic within restorative justice (RJ) as justification for victim involvement and redress, offender accountability and reintegration, and community involvement in RJ conferencing practices. In this article, we revisit the concept of conflicts as property as a theoretical premise for...

Mainstream criminology has been mainly developed in the US and other English-speaking countries. With an expansion of criminology outside the English-speaking world, several scholars have started to cast doubts on the applicability of current mainstream criminology in their regions because it has failed to account for cultural differences. This que...

Empirical work on criminological theories in Asia has been increasing. However, few comprehensive and systematic reviews on the application of criminological theories in Asia have been conducted. Using a systematic quantitative literature review method on peer-reviewed English-language journal articles, we aim to provide an overview of the use of f...

Due to an oversight during typesetting, the original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The second author’s name is Chen-Fu Pai, not Cheng-Fu Pai. The original article has been corrected. © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is currently recognized as a critical public health concern and a human rights issue. Not surprisingly, Muslims – a religiously and socio-culturally diverse faith-based populace – are not an exception. To address this complex area of criminal justice and social policy, some scholars advocate implementing restorative...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is currently recognized as a critical public health concern and a human rights issue. Not surprisingly, Muslims – a religiously and socio-culturally diverse faith-based populace – are not an exception. To address this complex area of criminal justice and social policy, some scholars advocate implementing restorative...

Empirical work on criminological theories in Asia has been increasing. However, few comprehensive and systematic reviews on the application of criminological theories in Asia have been conducted. Using a systematic quantitative literature review method on peer-reviewed English-language journal articles, we aim to provide an overview of the use of f...

With a focus on the emergence, development, and use of restorative justice (RJ) in Australia and New Zealand, this chapter provides an overview of the types of RJ practices used, their history and implementation in youth and criminal justice systems, and their role in contemporary justice practices. Consideration is also given to major research con...

With a focus on the emergence, development, and use of restorative justice (RJ) in Australia and New Zealand, this chapter provides an overview of the types of RJ practices used, their history and implementation in youth and criminal justice systems, and their role in contemporary justice practices. Consideration is also given to major research con...

Restorative justice (RJ) emerged in the late 1970s as an alternative to conventional youth and criminal justice practices. Since this time, RJ has experienced rapid growth in theory and practice. At the same time, much of this growth has come from expansion in lower-end criminal justice responses to crime, and in the increasing use of the term “res...

Since its emergence, restorative justice (RJ) has attracted scholars, practitioners and policy-makers from around the world. At the same time, however, such popularity has also generated confusion and a lack of consensus on what is RJ. Different people have proposed different notions of what qualifies as RJ. This article aims to contribute to such...

Restorative justice conferencing (RJC) has demonstrated strengths over traditional criminal justice approaches, including victim satisfaction and redress, and offender perceptions of legitimacy and fairness. However, less is known about how and why. This research examines conference convenor perspectives concerning how and why RJC ‘works’ in terms...

While many studies on restorative justice conferencing (RJC) for youth offenders have shown favourable outcomes such as victim satisfaction and fairness, and offender accountability and perceived legitimacy, other studies have demonstrated more problematic outcomes in terms of mutual understanding, sincerity of apology and reoffending. Given the co...

本稿は以下の構成からなる。まず初めに、オーストラリアにおける修復的少年司法の実践に焦点を当てる。ここでは、オーストラリアにおける修復的少年司法の始まりおよび発展の歴史に関して簡単に触れた後、現在の実務状況および少年司法内への制度化によって生じた弊害に関して論じる。続いて、オーストラリアにおける修復的少年司法の有効性を扱った研究、特に Reintegrative Shaming ExperimentとSouth Australia Juvenile Justiceに着目する。これらの結果の分析を踏まえた上で、オーストラリアにおける修復的(少年)司法研究の今後の方向性について論じる。最後に、以上の批判的分析をもとに、日本への視座に関して言及する。

Restorative justice (RJ) has experienced rapid growth. Along with its development, myths about RJ have emerged. Although several scholars have challenged these, two myths about restorative features in the Japanese justice system and society—(1) the role of apology, compensation and confession; and (2) the application of reintegrative shaming—arguab...

Restorative justice (RJ) encompasses a widely diverging set of practices whereby those most affected by crime are encouraged to meet, to discuss the effects of harms caused by one party to another, and to agree upon the best possible redress of harms when appropriate. In its inception in the late 1970s, RJ was conceptualized and developed as an alt...

Restorative justice (RJ) has experienced rapid growth. Along with its development, myths about RJ have emerged. Although several scholars have challenged these, two myths about restorative features in the Japanese justice system and society – (1) the role of apology, compensation and confession; and (2) the application of reintegrative shaming – ar...

Restorative justice (RJ) encompasses a widely diverging set of practices whereby those most affected by crime are encouraged to meet, to discuss the effects of harms caused by one party to another, and to agree upon the best possible redress of harms when appropriate. In its inception in the late 1970s, RJ was conceptualized and developed as an alt...

本稿は以下の構成からなる。まず初めに、オーストラリアにおける修復的少年司法の実践に焦点を当てる。ここでは、オーストラリアにおける修復的少年司法の始まりおよび発展の歴史に関して簡単に触れた後、現在の実務状況および少年司法内への制度化によって生じた弊害に関して論じる。続いて、オーストラリアにおける修復的少年司法の有効性を扱った研究、特に Reintegrative Shaming ExperimentとSouth Australia Juvenile Justiceに着目する。これらの結果の分析を踏まえた上で、オーストラリアにおける修復的(少年)司法研究の今後の方向性について論じる。最後に、以上の批判的分析をもとに、日本への視座に関して言及する。

Restorative justice conferencing (RJC) has demonstrated strengths over traditional criminal justice approaches, including victim satisfaction and redress, and offender perceptions of legitimacy and fairness. However, less is known about how and why. This research examines conference convenor perspectives concerning how and why RJC 'works' in terms...

Since its emergence, restorative justice (RJ) has attracted scholars, practitioners and policy-makers from around the world. At the same time, however, such popularity has also generated confusion and a lack of consensus on what is RJ. Different people have proposed different notions of what qualifies as RJ. This article aims to contribute to such...

Restorative justice (RJ) emerged in the late 1970s as an alternative to conventional youth and criminal justice practices. Since this time, RJ has experienced rapid growth in theory and practice. At the same time, much of this growth has come from expansion in lower-end criminal justice responses to crime, and in the increasing use of the term “res...

The project summarises the outcomes of a project that explored Restorative Justice practices in Yarra schools. The data was collected from nine primary and secondary schools in Yarra via emails. It is important to note that there are significant limitations in the findings because of the limited number of samples and limited responses. As far as th...