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1 Int'l J. Restorative Just. 9 (2018)
Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Limits and Possibilities for Brazil and Latin America

handle is hein.journals/ijrestore1 and id is 11 raw text is: ANNUAL LECTURE Restorative justice and criminal justice: limits and possibilities for Brazil and Latin America Vera Regina Pereira de Andrade* Abstract This article is based on the 2017 RJIJ annual lecture and seeks to examine the development of the restorative justice movement within the judiciary in Brazil (judicial restorative justice') in the last decade or so (2005-2017). The focus is on its relation to penal justice, listing the main possibilities and challenges in the Latin American context. The main question I wish to address is how does restorative jus- tice, being led by the judiciary in Brazil, look like? When, where, how and under which theoretical and methodological angles is it being developed? What are the human and material resources being used? How can the relationship between restorative justice and the current Brazilian criminal justice system be understood? My hypothesis is that judicial restorative justice in Brazil is going through a process of expansion and development, framing a paradigm that is under construction and in which, despite the possibilities of challenging and transforming the current jus- tice system, it has been nevertheless colonised by this same justice system. There- fore, restorative justice is being left to deal with low-level crimes and facing struc- tural and conjectural limits to the concretisation of its objectives. In addition, the field in Brazil is hit by a structural lack of dialogue with other Latin American countries, which results in a mutual impoverishment of sorts, as the 'restorativism' currently experienced, hither and thither, is heated up by the intersection of eman- cipatory principles and values. Keywords: Justice restorative, criminal justice, punishment, Brazil, Latin Amer- ica. * Vera Regina Pereira de Andrade is Emeritus Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florian6polis, Brazil. Contact author: vrpandrade@hotmail.com. Acknowledgements: My gratitude to Ivo Aertsen, Estelle Zinsstag and Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt, for their careful revisions that followed the translation of the article by Fabricio Pontin. I am truly honoured by the triple distinction - the opportunity to deliver the Annual Lecture, the chance to write the article, and the collaboration in this memorable multi-hand work that facilitates the world's dialogue with Brazil and Latin America. The International Journal of Restorative Justice 2018 vol. 1(1) pp. 9-32 9 doi: 10.5553/IJRJ/258908912018001001002