Restorative justice and transformative justice: Definitions and debates
March 23, 2013
Beyond attempting to restore the victim and community to their pre-crime conditions, RJ is further concerned with assigning to the offender active responsibility as opposed to assigning passive responsibility. This means that rather than being told they committed a crime and then being...
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Restorative justice & stories for resilient families and happy individuals
March 23, 2013
The restorative reentry circles we do, with incarcerated people and their reentry planning, which is based on reconciliation with their loved ones as well as most solution focused and restorative processes people participate in, gives families the opportunity to tell the stories about healing....
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Restorative justice: The long struggle
March 16, 2013
The kinship between the individual and collective levels of crime was frequently on display in the work of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the 1990s. There, police who beat black protesters frequently pleaded, “We were just obeying the law,†as must...
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Doing restorative justice delicately, deliberately and with dedication
March 16, 2013
One of the most important things to teach, when teaching people about Restorative Justice Circles, is structured silence. AND doing this has to be both delicate and deliberate. When you role model vs direct, inform, tell people how to behave, you have them learn for themselves....
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Restorative practices in schools and communities
March 16, 2013
When comparing staff and teacher survey responses between restorative schools and non-program schools, adults reported: Overall improvements in student behaviors, and Decreases in the number of staff who felt suspensions were the best way to deal with behavioral problems. In addition, 89% of...
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MPs call to support successful ‘restorative justice’ scheme
March 16, 2013
Training of care home staff in such schemes should also be stepped up to cut reoffending by young people in care, the justice select committee recommended. The report comes after Bradford Youth Offending Team (YOT) told the inquiry that parents were queuing up “for their children to be...
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Police use of court alternatives for young persons in New South Wales
March 13, 2013
After applying eligibility criteria in line with the YOA, it was found that diversionary options (cautions and conferences) were used by police in almost 80 per cent of cases. While the rate of diversion per LAC was as low as 30 per cent, 85 per cent of LACs diverted at least 70 per cent of...
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Restorative justice could help military veterans suffering from moral injuries
March 10, 2013
According to Shay the response to moral injuries does not come in the form of any medical intervention applied by professionals, but instead he says: ecovery happens only in community. And typically, the first community in which that is going to work is the community of fellow veterans.â€...
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Review: Regulating restorative justice: A comparative study of legislative provision in European countries
March 4, 2013
The book highlights some of the philosophical differences between conceptions of RJ, and its relationship to conventional criminal law and procedure. For JiÅ™i PÅ™ibáň, in his chapter on the social theory of justice, RJ ‘represents the informal living law whose main job is to...
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Review: The legacy of community justice
March 4, 2013
The book consists of articles, roughly half of which have appeared elsewhere, interspersed with short tributes to Denny by people who knew him well. Many of the articles were co-authored by Denny; others are about programs in which he was directly involved, such as Deschutes County’s...
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Restorative justice helps at-risk kids in Oakland
March 3, 2013
Now 18, she admitted she almost got into another heated fight with a female student at her school just months ago. Morgan, Salmeri, and Smith all credit the same man for stopping them from fighting: Eric Butler. He’s the one who brings students into what he calls “The...
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Better Outcomes through Victim-Offender Conferencing (Restorative Justice)
February 25, 2013
2. It is important that the model and timing of RJ activity takes full account of victims’ desire and readiness to engage. There is, however, a need to balance the victim’s needs within the context and sequencing of the requirements of an offender’s sentence plan. 3. In...
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Thousands avoid criminal records in Plymouth by ‘making amends’
February 25, 2013
He said: “Restorative justice is a process which brings victims and those responsible for the crime together to communicate, thereby enabling everybody affected by a particular incident to play a part in repairing the damage. “It’s about communication to try to resolve...
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ACPO publish Restorative Justice Guidance and Minimum Standards
February 25, 2013
The ACPO guidance sets four essential minimum standards which must be met for a disposal to be considered restorative: The offender must take responsibility Involvement of the victim, community or other affected party A structured process that establishes what has occured and what the impact...
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