Restorative Justice and Public Corruption

Abstract

In recent years there has been a growing interest in studying the possibilities of restorative justice in socio-economic crimes as well as in implementing itineraries and programmes that address these crimes from the restorative ideal. This paper addresses the most problematic issues and opportunities for a restorative response exclusively to public corruption from the beginning of the proceedings to the execution of the sentence. It is based on the confidence in restorative processes to deal with crimes that fall under the concept of public corruption and proposes a mixed model (complementary and alternative) of response which enriches the approach to this phenomenon in the framework of democratic societies.