Last week, a new AHRC-funded project on ‘Restorative Practice and Second Victimisation’ started as part of the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership through a Collaborative Doctoral Award. The work is supported jointly by the University of Liverpool and the Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Sorin Baiasu together with James Doble (Director – Legal, Governance & Customer Services at the Stoke-on-Trent City Council), Simon Hailwood and Phil Catney (Keele) will supervise the doctoral research of a new student, Christopher Mountford.
The current project is designed to achieve primarily two interrelated objectives: first, to provide guidance for the application and expansion of the restorative approach in the concrete context of City Council’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 restorative approach; and secondly, in response to an acknowledged problem for the restorative approach – that its theory has always lagged behind practice – to develop the theoretical framework underpinning the recommended guidance.
The project is connected with the ERC/UKRI KantianDESERT Advanced Grant and is supported also by the Liverpool-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (LOSAK) Research Centre. See here for more information.