Reconstruction, Beyond Restitution. Restorative Justice As an Educational ‘Space’ through the Overabondance of Social Love.

In line with the sociological debate on the relationship between love and justice, the article explores the phenomenological possibility of a ‘contamination’ between these two ‘regimes of action’ (Boltanki 1990) through educational activities. Focusing on restorative justice and on a specific instrument introduced by the recent Cartabia reform in Italy, the article highlights how the restorative perspective creates an educational ‘space’ oriented towards the reparation of a crime and the reconstruction of social ties, beyond a logic based on equivalence, which takes on traits of 'social love' (Iorio 2015; Cataldi, Iorio 2023). Thanks to the ‘’overabundance‘’ of ‘social love’ , legal action inspired by the reparative perspective becomes an educational action that can transform social actors and their cultural and emotional background.