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8 Asian J. Criminology 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/asjrcrm8 and id is 1 raw text is: Asian Criminology (2013) 8:1-23 DOI 10.1007/s11417-011-9122-y Family Conferencing for Juvenile Offenders: A Singaporean Case Study in Restorative Justice Wing-Cheong Chan Received: 5 July 2011 /Accepted: 12 December 2011 /Published online: 25 January 2012 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 Abstract Restorative justice has been or is being adopted in many parts of the world, including countries in Asia. In the case of Singapore, restorative justice was adopted by the court system in 1997 as its guiding philosophy in its approach towards juvenile offenders. This article traces the adoption of restorative justice by the Juvenile Court in Singapore and the use of family conferencing in the light of the principles of restorative justice. It concludes by suggesting areas where the family conferencing system in Singapore can be improved, and possible lessons for other jurisdictions considering adopting family conferencing. Keywords Restorative justice - Family conferencing - Juvenile offender - Singapore - Asia Introduction Although the roots of restorative justice have been traced to pre-modern societies and in diverse cultures (Braithwaite 1999; Love 2000; Ross 2000; Van Ness 1993),' the 'Braithwaite (1999: 2) qualifies his statement that Restorative justice has been the dominant model of criminal justice throughout most of human history for all the world's peoples somewhat in his later work (Braithwaite 2002: 5), where he says: While restorative justice may have been the dominant model of justice, it simplifies too much to say that restorative justice remained the dominant practice .... Most premodern societies sustained side-by-side restorative traditions and retributive traditions that were in many ways more brutal than modem retributivism. W.-C. Chan (E) Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 469G Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259776, Singapore e-mail: lawcwc@nus.edu.sg 4_ Springer

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