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Who Owns Resettlement? 16Last WordsOf course, these four components are just the earliest sketch of what restorative reintegrationis about, and clearly this is an idealistic vision of what a resettlement strategymight look like. Yet, at least it is that: a vision, a coherent narrative based on a tangible,indeed testable, theory of social behaviour. And, this might be just what has been missingfrom all of our considerable excitement around resettlement and reentry in recent years.So, who owns resettlement? In restorative reintegration, like Nils Christie‘s vision forrestorative justice, re-integration needs to be given back to its rightful owners, back tocommunities and the ex-prisoners themselves. Is there a role for agency work in this? Ofcourse there is. There‘s a role for the criminal justice system and even for George Bushand large-scale national efforts. Yet, the role of these groups would not be to ―do‖ thereintegration. They can‘t. The best they can do is to support, enhance and work with theorganically occurring community processes of reconciliation and earned redemption.The worst they can do is interfere with these or impede the process of reintegration throughinvasive, heavy-handed and stigmatising interventions. Such stigmatisation andsegregation of ex-offenders is especially ironic when it goes under the name of improved―reentry‖ or ―resettlement‖.
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