Can we "repair" criminal justice?

Passing a law, committing a crime, inflicting a sanction. These are the main the stages of criminal justice at the heart of modern legal systems. The sentence that follows the committment of a crime often translates into detention in a correctional facility. But is the sanction effective if the ultimate goal is to re-educate and reintegrate the offender into society? And from the perspective of the victim, is this merely punitive approach sufficient? The answer is no, according to the vision of restorative justice, an approach with which dialogue and care for one's suffering are valued without excluding the investigation of the crime and the related sanction. The USI Institute of Law (IDUSI) investigates and fosters this innovative vision of criminal justice, leading also to the creation of a regional group within the Swiss RJ Forum. Moreover, in a recent conference held at USI, the judiciary perspective way complemented by the interdisciplinary prospective of communication offered by the USI Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics (IALS), which specialises also in research on dialogue and conflict mediation. Justice 'that cures and heals'.