Discourse and Diversionary Justice An Analysis of Youth Justice Conf
This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia. Exploring this form of diversionary justice from the perspectives of functional linguistics and performance studies, the authors combine close textual analysis with e
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DISCOURSE AND DIVERSIONARY JUSTICE AN ANALYSIS OF YOUTH JUSTICE CONFERENCING
Discourse and Diversionary Justice
Michele Zappavigna • JR Martin
Discourse and Diversionary Justice An Analysis of Youth Justice Conferencing
Michele Zappavigna School of the Arts & Media UNSW Australia Sydney, NSW, Australia
JR Martin Department of Linguistics University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-63762-4 ISBN 978-3-319-63763-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017954308 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Image Source Plus / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
For Diana Eades, with great respect
Preface
The research we are documenting here grew out of a research seminar organized by Ghassan Hage at the University of Sydney in 2003, a seminar focusing on social hope as an analytical category and object of research (see Hage 2006 for his conception of social hope). Paul Dwyer was attracted to this seminar in relation to his work on ritual reconciliation ceremonies in Bougainville; and Jim Martin was attracted in relation to his interest in what he calls ‘positive discourse analysis’, where this is understood as involving a focus on what is going right in the world (that we can learn from and perhaps participate in; Martin 2004) rather than what is going wrong (the usual focus of critical discourse analysis, aka CDA, research). At the time, Paul had his eye on the possibility of exploring a form of restorative justice which had recently been introduced in New South Wales (hereafter NSW), Australi
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