Partnering with police to do restorative justice
August 8, 2011
Beginning in 2000, Wetherbee led his department to use restorative processes for juvenile offenses such as vandalism, trespassing, shoplifting, and bullying. The department encouraged the development of a group of trained volunteers to handle these matters, with an officer sitting in on each...
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Call for restorative justice review
August 7, 2011
Practitioners have also criticised the scheme established to codify the relationship of practitioners with the police saying it is too restrictive because it requires an admission of guilt.Despite this, CJI officials also found some positive developments and said early intervention in matters...
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2nd Chance Staffing
August 1, 2011
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Intertwined: Community conflict management in the school
August 1, 2011
Why is the film illustration effective? visual information helps to activate the participants, facilitates reflections and the exchange of opinions, fosters the identification with the topic through the situations shown, clarifies the topic of the discussion, the comprehension of the questions...
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Badlands or fairyland? How to misuse statistics and confuse the public
August 1, 2011
Murray Short – Badlands and Denying Science Murray Short considers that the book adds little to the ongoing consideration of effective penal policy and is seriously inaccurate and misleading in many respects. To support his view he gives examples of Fraser’s selective use of data,...
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Iranian woman blinded by acid attack pardons assailant as he faces same fate
August 1, 2011
Bahrami, who had refused to marry Movahedi, was disfigured and blinded by him when he threw a jar of acid in her face while she was returning home from work in 2004. “I feel very good. I’m happy that I pardoned him,” Isna quoted her as saying. “For seven years...
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NPR: Victims confront offenders, face to face
July 29, 2011
BALIGA: And, you know, I think it was within hours that I heard back from the victim’s parents. And just really implored me to consider ways in which restorative justice – they had read about restorative justice. They’d heard about Howard Zehr and his work. He’s sort of...
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After the crime: the power of restorative justice. Dialogues between victims and violent offenders
July 26, 2011
One chapter is headed ‘the importance of storytelling for restorative justice’, and after describing the origin and principles of the VVH programme Miller presents nine case histories where victims (or their relatives) have met the person responsible for their hurt or...
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The shape of a Restorative Justice Circles, taps our intuition and engages us in the process
July 26, 2011
Geese benefit from the shape of V. People benefit from the shape of O. The article mentions that a Circle is the “max area for the least perimeterâ€. That explains to me why we can accomplish so much in Circle...
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Listening to crime victims: North Carolina restorative justice conference
July 24, 2011
When I prepare for these panels I ask what I think a listening audience would want to know. I also think of questions that the victim would want to answer. Each victim had a very short set time to tell their stories given the time constraints. I would follow up with questions. As I...
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Police back multi-agency hubs to reduce offending
July 18, 2011
An injection of £1m will support six local authority pilot projects in London to improve early intervention from police and other agencies. The hubs involve professionals from police, education, social care and health, sharing information on children referred to the service. The Devon...
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Colorado mother wishes for meeting with son’s killers
July 18, 2011
Evans, 47, said she knows it would be difficult facing the inmate who fired the shot that killed her son: Raymond Johnson, now 32. But she said that Johnson and the other shooter, Paul Littlejohn, now 31, want to meet her as well. “There’s that fear, you know, that...
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Restorative justice implementation
July 18, 2011
As a shining example of community support, Omaha has myriad clusters of community based activities, such as weekly meetings to inform one another about the activities and goals of helping support youth and their families throughout Omaha. There are a number of networks who help to...
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Doing justice honourably
July 18, 2011
Biblical pillars of doing justice and loving mercy are heavily strained in NZ. We rush to apportion blame rather than ask who has been hurt by crime. We mete out a retributive ‘justice’ which perpetuates further injustices. We legislate for three strikes and there is no more...
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