Restoring the balance: Ensuring RJ post-sentence is safe and helpful for victims
September 24, 2013
What: ConferenceWhen: 28 November 2013Where: St Catherine’s College, Oxford, EnglandMore information: See conference announcement Session topics will include: Victims and RJ: What do we know from International Research Evidence? The UK RJ Scene – How Standards Can Help...
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South Africa: Judging Ubuntu and Africanisation of the Child Justice Act
September 24, 2013
…The CJA took its cue from the 1996 Constitution. Therefore, the CJA is mindful of the Constitution as the highest law of the country and aims to improve the quality of life of all its people and to free the potential of every person by all means possible. The Constitution emphasises the...
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Faith groups and restorative justice
September 24, 2013
Restorative justice works better in more serious cases, including violence, where there are more emotions needing a response; but the government’s 15 experimental neighbourhood justice panels, which have no central funding, are focused on relatively minor anti-social behaviour,...
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Everyone has a story
September 23, 2013
I saw this again when I visited Prison Fellowship Cambodia to conduct Sycamore Tree Project® training. The eleven training participants have a wealth of experience working in prison and with the families of prisoners. So, we went through an activity to explore the needs of victims and...
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Restorative Justice: Is the Message Getting Through?
September 22, 2013
When these themes emerge in Albert Square I get the feeling the message is getting through. In EastEnders, it was the victim driving the meeting – it was on Kat’s terms and focused around her suffering as the victim. For my charity, Victim Support, that is a crucial point....
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Review: The little book of restorative justice for colleges and universities
September 18, 2013
Author: David Karp, Good Books. ISBN13: 9781561487967 …The Little Book can be broken down into two distinct parts. Chapters two through six engage the reader into the many positives of restorative justice, and how different types of restorative justice models look and work on...
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Burglar turns his life around after meeting victim
September 17, 2013
But when he found out the daughter of one of his victims was having nightmares as the result of his crime, he saw the light. Jamie, 37, a warehouseman, from Churchdown, has put his criminal past behind him thanks to a restorative justice programme. He spoke to the Echo about the scheme, at a...
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Compulsory Mediation within Civil and Criminal Law: Good, Bad, or Just Plain Daft
September 17, 2013
If mediation were to be turned into a compulsory part of the mediation process, then it would have to be carefully scrutinised, modified and constructed by lawyers, politicians the government to ensure that it was something compatible with government backing. This would mean statutory...
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Getting my mugger to explain why
September 16, 2013
It wasn’t true of course, and when the police arrived, a fast-moving sequence of events led to my mugger’s arrest. He was tracked down using the Find My iPhone app and caught after a fleet-of-foot police officer chased him through a north London housing estate. Eighteen months...
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Baraza Peace Courts: ensuring fair and non-punitive justice in DRC
September 16, 2013
In order to offer an alternative to this, FOCHI has promoted the creation of Baraza (a Swahili word meaning ‘gathering’), community-led justice courts that provide successful resolution to conflicts through participatory processes of dialogue and reconciliation. Baraza have been...
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Collapsing barriers between victims and offenders
September 6, 2013
One victim, Luigi, explained how he barely considered the prisoners as human beings in the opening of the course. Yet, as he came to understand the prisoners’ backgrounds and their families, he changed his thinking. The separation between victim and offender collapsed. The openness and...
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Restorative justice will cover the country
September 5, 2013
“We know participation in restorative justice can result in a reduction in the reoffending rate of up to 20 per cent when compared to offenders who did not participate,” Ms Collins says. “As well as delivering more services in existing centres, restorative justice will now be...
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Restorative justice: An interview with Deanna VanBuren
September 4, 2013
Inside the institutions we have done and will continue to run design studios and do evidence-based design research in Chester Prison and various jails around Philadelphia. We are developing and setting up a series of two-day workshops we hope to hold in San Quentin, Graterford prison where...
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