The Strangers in Criminal Procedure: Restorative Justice as a possibility to overcome the simplicity of the modern paradigm of criminal justice

• Autores: Daniel Achutti
• Localización: Oñati socio-legal series, ISSN-e 2079-5971, Vol. 1, Nº. 2, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Investigations - Investigaciones - Ikerlanak), 17 págs.
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The present paper addresses the crisis of penal procedure in the contemporary society from its epistemological basis to, then, present restorative justice as a concrete alternative to the traditional criminal procedure. The intention is to describe how criminal procedure got established since its modern scientific roots and, then, to show the impossibility of a satisfactory management of social conflicts according to its standardized rules. After it, is argued that restorative justice is able to better deal with social conflicts than criminal procedure, once that system does not have standardized rules and allows the stakeholders to decide the situation according to their own deliberation, instead of being obliged to follow a decision from another person, usually a judge.