Thoughts on mass extrication

the requirement to include the racial debate in the base of the restorative paradigm

Abstract

Restorative justice is considered a new paradigm of understanding and responding to crime, which intends to deal with violence, not only in the criminal sphere, as a complex phenomenon, fostering approaches to minimize the negative effects of the penal system on the offender and the victim, to the possibility of more forceful participation of the community. The present work presents restorative justice beyond the practices and their results, seeing its theoretical foundations to indicate the need to expand its theoretical elements. From this, it is intended to indicate that it is necessary to expand restorative debates from the demands that impose an effort to achieve rights intersectionally, based on social theories that embrace discussions of race and gender, for example. Finally, African literature, more specifically the models of conflict resolution of the Bantu peoples, can offer narratives, models, practices and purposes that help in the emancipation and training of actors in the criminal conflict - judicial technicians, community, victim and offender, to highlight the contradictions of the social context, interacting creatively in the search for the most just, egalitarian and humane solution for the singularities in question.