Another race review of the criminal justice system?
In January 2016, the Prime Minister invited David Lammy MP to find out why official figures show that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic...
The real world crisis & restorative justice
Governments around the world, the media and many intellectuals had us convinced that we are living a period when financial resources are...
Restorative Justice in the British Parliament
Last week, I was called to give oral evidence before the House of Commons' Justice Committee on the effectiveness of restorative justice...
Addressing the Paradox of Restorative Justice: The Victims’ Directive & the collapse of labels “
National laws do not exist in a vacuum. Independently of whether we subscribe to national law theory or legal positivism, we must accept...
Restorative Justice: From Theory to Practice
Over the last thirty years, restorative justice has caused a phenomenon of global interest stemming from a number of different...
Black International Restorative Justice Week: Gavrielides' #rjweek blog 2015
Since 2012, I have been writing an annual commentary for "Restorative Justice Week", originally introduced in 1996 by the Correctional...
Hate and Restorative Justice
In the UK, 10-17 October 2015 was National Hate Crime Awareness Week. This initiative was set up in the hope that society, politicians,...
Race equality & the paradox of restorative justice
Some argue that one of the reasons that restorative justice was brought back into the modern world of policy and practice is the growing...
Another Report about Victims - Another Disappointment for the most Vulnerable
In January, I openly spoke about the Victims’ Commissioner, Baroness Newlove, first major review looking at compliance with the Victims’...
Moving Victims to the Centre: True or False?
Recently, we have witnessed some serious attempts by international and national players to bring victims to the centre of the criminal...
