When Restorative Justice Meets the Good Lives Model of Sex Offender Rehabilitation: Bases, Articulations, and Applications
From the scientific literature and their clinical practice, the authors discuss the penologic and psychological intervention intended for sex offenders’ models. A first part of the paper presents the restorative justice model in the light of the penological models which preceded it. A second part is devoted to the Good Lives Model, the most recent model of psychological intervention. In a third part, the authors detail the bonds linking the restorative justice model with the Good Lives Model and describe, in a fourth part, various applications of these models in the field of the sexual offending. Lastly, the humanism conveyed by these new models is promoted in a brief conclusion.