The University of Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent City Council are delighted to offer an Arts and Humanities Research Council fully-funded PhD studentship: Restorative Practice and Second Victimisation. The successful applicant will work with Professor Sorin Baiasu and belong to our Ethics, Law and Justice in Private and Public Life research group.
The application deadline is 9 April, so don’t delay!
Project summary
The restorative approach (RA) has been hailed as a great promoter of reconciliation. Instances of the approach can be found throughout cultures and history, but only within the last 30 years, in the criminal justice system, has it acquired global prominence. More recently, RA has also been praised as a powerful solution to distributive problems of social justice, for instance, in education. Stoke-on-Trent City Council (SCC) is in the process of implementing restorative practices, and the current project is designed to achieve primarily two interrelated objectives:
O1. To provide guidance for the application and expansion of RA in the concrete context of SCC’s services with particular emphasis on local issues generated by potential economic, social and cultural exclusion (e.g., leading to problems of fairness, including, secondary victimisation, e.g., when the victim is placed under pressure to accept the RA);
O2. In response to an acknowledged problem for RA – that its theory has always lagged behind practice – to develop the theoretical framework underpinning the recommended guidance.
For more information, see here or contact Sorin Baiasu.