Abstract
The article strives to carry out a critical analysis of the current criminal model, taking the restorative justice as an example of another possible model. It questions if and to what extent restorative justice presents a potential to achieve ways of conflict resolution that are more democratic and committed to the rights and human dignity and, in the long term, a step to overcoming the current punitive model. Based in an abolitionist perspective of restorative justice, it infers that it has the potential of represent an alternative in the search for a less violent logic. The research is exploratory and adopts the hypothetico-deductive method of approach.
Keywords:
Human rights; Modern penal rationality; Restorative justice