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PROGRAMME

NEW ADVANCES IN
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
THEORY AND PRACTICE

#RJLEEDS

18th & 19th September 2017

Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds School of Law

Day 1 18 SEPTEMBER 2017  Programme

9.00 - 9.45AM REGISTRATION

9.45 - 10.00AM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Professor Adam Crawford, University of Leeds

10.00 - 11.15AM REFRAMING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR POLICING CONTEXTS
(11.00 - 11.15AM Q&A) Dr Kerry Clamp, University of Western Sydney

WHO'S IN CHARGE? RESTORATIVE POLICING AND MANAGED
EMPOWERMENT
Ian Marder, University of Leeds

11.15 - 11.35AM BREAK

11.35 - 1.00PM FORGIVENESS AND MAINSTREAMING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
(12.45 - 1.00PM Q&A) Dr Meredith Rossner, London School of Economics

POLICING DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE USING
RESTORATIVE APPROACHES 
Professor Clare McGlynn & Professor Nicole Westmarland,
Durham University

1.00 - 1.45PM LUNCH

1.45 - 4.00PM RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN POLICING: IMPLEMENTING CHANGE
IN THREE ENGLISH POLICE FORCES
Professor Joanna Shapland & Dr Emily Gray, University of
Sheffield and Professor Adam Crawford & Daniel Burn,
University of Leeds

RESPONDENTS:
Andy Myhill, College of Policing (chair)
Chief Constable Mike Barton, Durham Constabulary
TBC, Restorative Justice Council
Professor Ivo Aertsen, University of Leuven

4.00PM - 4.20PM BREAK

4.20PM - 5.30PM TBC
(5.10 - 5.30PM Q&A Professor Jennifer Llewellyn, Dalhousie University

5.30PM END

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Day 2 19 SEPTEMBER 2017  Programme

9.00 - 9.30AM REGISTRATION

9.30 - 11.00AM RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN CASES OF HISTORICAL

(10.40 - 11.00AM Q&A) INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE: AN EXPLORATION AND FIRST

FINDINGS
Professor Ivo Aertsen, University of Leuven

THE ALTERNATIVE RESEARCH INTO INTERCULTURAL CONFLICT
NORTHERN IRELAND: HOW IT GENERATED NEW
UNDERSTANDINGS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. 
Tim Chapman, University of Ulster

11.00- 11.30AM BREAK

11.30 - 1.15PM WHAT DO THE PUBLIC WANT FROM PUBLIC APOLOGIES?
Professor Kieran McEvoy, Queen’s University Belfast and
(12.55 - 1.15PM Q&A) Professor Shadd Maruna, University of Manchester

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN A TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE CONTEXT:
SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS A CASE STUDY
Dr Estelle Zinsstag, University of Leuven

1.15 - 2.15PM LUNCH

2.15 - 4.00PM TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT: EMBEDDING AGENCY AND
ACCOUNTABILITY IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
(3.40 - 4.00PM Q&A) Professor Jonathan Doak, Nottingham Trent University and
Professor David O'Mahony, University of Essex

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS:
LOOKING FOR INNOVATIVE INTERSECTIONS IN THEORY AND
PRACTICE
Dr Stephan Parmentier, University of Leuven

4.00 - 4.30PM CONCLUDING REMARKS
Professor Adam Crawford, University of Leeds

4.30PM CLOSE

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Speakers

Kerry Clamp is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the
Department of Social Sciences and Psychology at the University
of Western Sydney, Australia. She received her Ph.D. from the
University of Leeds in 2010 and also holds degrees from the
University of Sheffield and the University of South Africa. Her
research agenda focuses on the intersections of restorative
justice and transitional justice, and of restorative justice and
policing.

Ian D. Marder is a Ph.D. student (School of Law, University of
Leeds), and the founder of the Community of Restorative
Researchers. In 2015/16, he was a Visiting Scholar at the
Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven. His current research and
teaching focuses primarily on the use of restorative justice
within the criminal justice process. He has previously conducted
research for the Restorative Justice Council, Restorative
Solutions, the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs and
Search for Common Ground Maghreb, and is currently acting as
Scientific Expert to the Council of Europe's Council for
Penological Co-operation. 

Meredith Rossner is an assistant professor of criminology in the
Law Department at the London School of Economics, and an
adjunct fellow at Western Sydney University.  Her research
interests include emotions and interactions in criminal justice,
criminology theory, restorative justice, court design and
procedure, and juries.  Her book, Just Emotions: Rituals of
Restorative Justice was published by OUP in 2014.  

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Nicole Westmarland is Professor of Criminology at Durham
University and Director of the Durham Centre for Research into
Violence and Abuse. She has conducted around 40 research
projects into men’s violence against women and held a number
of advisory positions. She is author of Violence against Women.
Criminological perspectives on men’s violences (2015).
Follow her @NWestmarland

Clare McGlynn is a Professor of Law at Durham University in the
UK and an expert on laws relating to sexual violence,
pornography and image-based sexual abuse. Her research (with
Nicole Westmarland) has investigated sexual violence survivors’
understandings of justice, developing the concept of
‘kaleidoscopic justice’ to better explain their diverse justice
perspectives. Their work has also considered the possibilities of
using restorative justice in cases of sexual violence, as well as
recent work revealing the widespread police practice of using
‘out-of-court’ resolutions in cases of domestic abuse. She
regularly contributes to media and public debates on sexual
violence and restorative justice, working closely with policy-
makers, MPs and women’s organisations. She is the co-editor of
Rethinking Rape Law: international and comparative perspectives
(2010) and Feminist Judgments: from theory to practice (2010)
and author of Families and the European Union (2006) and The
Woman Lawyer: making the difference (1998).

Adam Crawford is Professor of Criminology at the University of
Leeds in the UK, and Director of the Leeds Social Sciences
Institute which works to support and enhance the Social Sciences
at the University of Leeds by fostering interdisciplinary and
international research collaborations. He is also Director of the
N8 Policing Research Partnership, a collaboration between
universities and policing partners in the North of England,
established to enable and foster research collaborations that
will help address the problems of policing in the 21st century
and achieve international excellence in policing research. With
Professor Shapland (Sheffield) he is exploring the use of
restorative justice in policing. Recent books include Legitimacy
and Compliance in Criminal Justice (2013) and International and
Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance (2011).

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Ivo Aertsen is Full Professor of Criminology at the University of
Leuven (Belgium). He holds degrees of psychology, law and
criminology from the same university. At the Leuven Institute of
Criminology (LINC) he is leading the Research Line on
‘Restorative Justice and Victimology’. His main fields of research
and teaching are victimology, penology and restorative justice.
Ivo Aertsen has been chair of the European Forum for
Restorative Justice (EFRJ) from 2000-2004, and has coordinated
COST Action A21 on Restorative Justice research in Europe from
2002-2006. He has been expert for the U.N., the Council of
Europe, the OSCE and the European Union. Furthermore, he was
appointed as expert to the Belgian Parliamentary Commission on
sexual abuse in the church (2010-2011), followed by membership
of the Permanent Arbitration Chamber on sexual abuse (2012-
2016). Ivo Aertsen was also the academic coordinator of the
European FP7-project 'ALTERNATIVE' (2012-2016) on developing
alternative understandings of justice and security. He also acts
as Editor-in-Chief of 'Restorative Justice: An International
Journal'.

Tim Chapman is a visiting lecturer at the University of Ulster in
Northern Ireland, UK. teaching on the Masters programme in
Restorative Practices. He has contributed to the development of
restorative conferencing in both the voluntary and statutory
sectors in Northern Ireland. He spent 25 years working in the
Probation Service in Northern Ireland. He played an active part
in developing effective practice in the UK particularly through
the publication of Evidence Based Practice, written jointly with
Michael Hough and published by the Home Office. His ‘Time to
Grow’ model for the supervision of young people has influenced
youth justice practices especially in Scotland. He has published
widely on restorative justice and effective practice and has
conducted significant research into restorative justice in
Northern Ireland including the ALTERNATIVE project. In 2015 he
wrote with Maija Gellin and Monique Anderson A European
Model of Restorative Justice with Children and Young People. He
is chair of the Board of the European Forum for Restorative
Justice.

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Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at
the School of Law and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute
of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen’s University
Belfast. He has conducted research in over a dozen conflicted or
transitional countries.  He has written or edited six books, a four
volume Handbook of Transitional Justice, five special issues and
over sixty journal articles and scholarly book chapters. He is
Principal Investigator on the ESRC funded project Apologies,
Abuses and Dealing with the Past from which this research is
drawn.  

Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology at the University of
Manchester. His book Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and
Rebuild Their Lives was named the Outstanding Contribution to
Criminology by the American Society of Criminology in 2001. He
was also received awards from the Howard League for Penal
Reform and the Economic and Social Research for his impact on
penal policy.

Estelle Zinsstag (MSc, PhD) is a Swiss and French national. She
has completed her first degree in France and her postgraduate
studies in the UK. She is currently an affiliated senior researcher
at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (University of Leuven,
Belgium) and an associate member of the Scottish Centre for
Crime and Justice Research (UK). She is also a founding member
and the managing editor of Restorative Justice: An International
Journal published by Routledge / Taylor & Francis (UK).

While in Leuven as a senior researcher she recently coordinated
and was principal investigator on a European Commission
Daphne project on sexual violence and restorative justice.
Previously she lead an European Commission Action Grant
project for the European Forum for Restorative Justice on
‘Conferencing: A way forward for restorative justice in Europe’.
She publishes mainly in the field of sexual violence, restorative
justice and transitional justice. Most recently she edited a book
with Dr Marie Keenan (UCD) on Restorative responses to sexual
violence for Routledge (2017) and is currently working on 2
further books on related topics. She has been a visiting fellow at
Cornell Law School (USA) and been invited to present her work in
the USA, Hong Kong, Iran, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Hungary, the
UK, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal.

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Jonathan Doak is Professor of Criminal Justice and Associate
Dean for Research at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent
University. He completed his LLB and doctoral studies at Queen's
University Belfast, and has previously taught at Durham
University, the University of Sheffield and the University of
Ulster.

Jonathan's main research interests lie in the broad fields of
criminal justice and transitional justice. In particular, he has
published widely on the rights of victims and survivors,
restorative justice and evidential protections for vulnerable
witnesses in criminal proceedings. He has considerable
experience in working with law reform bodies and non-
governmental organisations in seeking to improve the
experiences of victims and witnesses who come into contact with
the criminal justice system.

Currently Jonathan is conducting research into the various ways
in which different legal orders have tended to conceptualise
issues of reparation and reconciliation. He is also completing a
book with David O'Mahony (Essex) on the ‘gap’ between
restorative justice theory and practice.
Jonathan is the Editor of the International Journal of Evidence
and Proof and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of
Criminal Law, the British Journal of Community Justice, the
Journal of Forensic Research and Crime Studies and the
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. 

David O'Mahony is Professor of Law at Essex Law School and
Human Rights Centre. His research focuses on the meaning of
‘justice’ in the context of criminal justice systems, with particular
sensitivity to the rights of young people and the use of
restorative justice and alternative ways of responding to crime.
His research is based on analyses of the needs of victims,
communities and offenders and he has applied a range of
empirical methods to explore concepts of justice, rights and
participation in criminal justice. David's work, together with
Jonathan Doak (Nottingham Law School), has informed the
development of a distinctive critical theory of restorative justice
and its application in criminal justice systems.

His current projects include research applying restorative justice
perspectives to the criminalisation of squatting in England and
Wales and theorising the role of restorative justice within
modern criminal justice. David has published widely in the areas
of criminal justice, youth justice, restorative justice and
transitional justice. This research has directly impacted on the
reform of criminal justice in several jurisdictions. 

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Stephan Parmentier currently teaches sociology of crime, law,
and human rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of
Leuven and previously served as the Academic Secretary of the
Faculty of Law (2002-2005) and Head of the Department of
Criminal Law and Criminology (2005-2009). He is a Board
member of the Centre for Global Governance Studies at the
University of Leuven and a member of the Leuven Mediation
Platform. He is also in charge of international relations in
criminology at Leuven University and in July 2010 was elected
Secretary-General of the International Society for Criminology
(re-elected in August 2014). Furthermore, he is on the Advisory
Board of the Oxford Centre of Criminology and the International
Centre for Transitional Justice (New York).
Over the past quarter century he has been an advisor and
consultant to the European Committee for the Prevention of
Torture, the Belgian Minister of the Interior, the Belgian Federal
Police, the King Baudouin Foundation, and Amnesty
International. His research interests include political crimes and
transitional justice, human rights and migration, and restorative
justice and peacebuilding. Between 1999 and 2002 he served as
the vice-president of the Flemish section of Amnesty
International.

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