UC explores restorative justice in improving campus climate
February 14, 2012
The two-day training session at the UC Office of the President offered participants guidance in facilitating and implementing restorative justice in a campus community. The safety and engagement workgroup of UC President Mark Yudof’s Advisory Council on Campus Climate and the UC Student...
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Restorative justice provides new path for prisoners
February 14, 2012
….Restorative Justice, a program that encourages reflection and restitution, has helped change the lives of countless offenders. It begins with a class, Impact of Crime on Victims, in which inmates learn about the magnitude of their actions. Inmates then have options — a sewing...
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New York Times article shows why restorative justice is needed
February 14, 2012
The article describes how lawyer Nader Hasen, whose cousin is the psychiatrist from Ft. Hood who shot and killed people, met with one of the murdered victim’s relatives. Today the two are working to prevent similar horrors. Our mainstream justice system largely ignores the needs of...
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Ford launches restorative justice guide for young people
February 13, 2012
It also contains several poems and posters by young people who had entered a competition run jointly by the Youth Justice Agency and Restorative Justice Forum to illustrate what restorative justice means to them. ….The Minister was joined at the launch by pupils from Integrated College,...
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The effects of prison visitation on recidivism
February 9, 2012
Using multiple measures of visitation (any visit, total number of visits, visits per month, timing of visits, and number of individual visitors) and recidivism (new offense conviction and technical violation revocation), the study found that visitation significantly decreased the risk of...
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The measure with which we measure
February 6, 2012
I am arguing that this development, more than any other, is at the heart of the systematic divide in Christian consciousness between seeing the world and its institutions in light of the teaching of Christ, and seeing the teaching of Christ in light of one’s membership in specific...
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Christian critiques of the penal system
February 6, 2012
All four authors find that the current criminal justice system fails to facilitate or encourage the transformation/restoration of individuals and communities. It could be doing much more. In discussing his journey to understanding the problems of the criminal justice system, Snyder recounts...
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Divine justice as restorative justice
February 6, 2012
….In my view, there can be little doubt that biblical teaching on justice includes a definite theme of retribution. Most basically, the Bible recognizes that human deeds carry inescapable consequences. There is a kind of inbuilt law of recompense in the universe that means people...
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Restorative justice: The new way forward
February 6, 2012
During a twenty-year period when the general population grew less than 22%, the prison population more than doubled, from less than 700,000 in 1989 to over 1,500,000 in 2009. A total of 7,225,800 adults, or 3.1% of the U. S. adult population, were under correctional supervision—either...
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My experience with the Sycamore Tree Project(sm)
January 29, 2012
….ach week of the course leads them on into understanding their responsibilities and the paths to restoring their own lives and the lives of the people around them. At the end of each session they return to their cells, and have a week to digest and internalise the work they have done....
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Accountability closer to home
January 29, 2012
That box is prominent enough to notice, but I’ve always found it easy to ignore. But giving to Wikipedia, a resource whose convenience I appreciate, made me embarrassed that I had never given to RJ Online—a resource I rely on. So, after Christmas when my husband and I were talking...
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Martin Luther King and life after hate
January 29, 2012
….In my peacemaking work, I am always touched when people reach across differences. As King said, “Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create.†Thankfully, there are organizations helping to create understanding and sharing...
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Review: A community-based approach to the reduction of sexual re-offending: circles of support and accountability
January 29, 2012
The story begins in Canada, with healing circles used in indigenous cultures and the concern of the Mennonite Church. A sex offender, high-risk yet vulnerable, was due to be released with no support, but the church of the Revd Harry Nigh accepted him into their community on the...
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How restorative justice can empower victims in serious crimes – two cases of rape
January 23, 2012
The first, featured by Sky News concerned Joanne Nodding. She told Sky News how she feared for her life when she was raped almost 10 years ago, and how even seeing her attacker being sentenced to life did little to help her achieve closure. This is what she said: “It changed the power...
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Young vandals ordered to put Somerset factory damage right
January 23, 2012
….Investigating Police Community Support Officer Dan Arthur said the powers of restorative justice are a good way of dealing with young offenders. “If these children had gone through the courts they would not have come in contact with the victim, the managing director of the...
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