Restorative Justice takes on West Oakland schools
May 9, 2011
Those staggering achievements prompted researchers at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, part of the University of California, Berkeley ‘s Boalt School of Law, to analyze the results. They declared the program at Cole — a school where the entire student body was...
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Letter: Restorative Justice Program a valuable resource
May 9, 2011
….My friend and I recently participated in such a meeting to deal with our incident from last spring. I can speak for the both of us when I say that we were more than pleased with the outcome, and it was refreshing to be seen as an equal to the University with a voice in...
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Restorative Justice Centre helps change Roman Dutch law:
May 9, 2011
….It is significant that the only portion of the judgment that is ascribed to by the whole court are the paragraphs of the judgment about apology. The court develops the Roman Dutch Common Law. They point out that at present the only claim for one who has suffered an infringement of a...
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Phoebe Prince bullies sentenced, but how do they make things right?
May 8, 2011
“These are roles these kids play, and we want to … have them rewrite their own script,†says Barbara Coloroso, an educator and author on bullying. What’s needed, she says, is “accountability where justice is served for the family and healing takes placeâ€...
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Working with relationships, be mindful of your own sense of justice.
May 2, 2011
Each party was able to determine what could have been done differently – from the cheating, to the throwing of the trash, to the throwing of a punch. Picking different friends and boyfriends were articulated as an action to change. Walking away from conflict instead of...
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What is the difference between unitive justice and restorative justice?
May 2, 2011
When we give equal weight to individual choice and context, we see that the choice to harm another usually signifies underlying brokenness screaming to be dealt with. If we stop with holding the offender accountable, and thus only consider the offender’s choice, the underlying...
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A visionary judge makes restorative justice come alive in Alabama
May 2, 2011
Watch this series if you’d like to meet a judge who approaches her calling 24/7, who believes in the power of personal interaction — which has included working closely with offenders as they pick up trash, and spending her Saturday afternoons quilting with people who have passed...
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Restorative justice in the workplace
May 2, 2011
The challenge about stating such values in a personnel handbook is that it holds people (including the board members and the top management) to a high standard – the same standard as we hold others to – and that we won’t always succeed. Perhaps that is one of the most...
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Restorative terminology: A modest proposal
April 25, 2011
Is a “check-in” circle to find out how members of a class are doing this morning — no conflicts to work out, no rules broken — restorative justice? Or what about mediation of a misunderstanding between neighbours? Some people are calling these restorative justice,...
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Restorative Justice
April 21, 2011
So, if I can help the lad should I be bothered? Well I was and volunteered myself and this afternoon popped along to the Youth Offending offices with another neighbour to confront the lad. Now he’s not the sharpest tool in the box but he was clearly uncomfortable and embarrassed (as was...
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The restorative approach in Nova Scotia: A partnership of government, communities and schools
April 21, 2011
Attorney Emma Halpern began her work in restorative approaches as a project manager for this program. Said Halpern, “We began with a discipline model, using student facilitators for restorative practices, and have expanded to using teacher circles in classrooms, talking with...
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Restorative justice realities: research in a European context
April 21, 2011
Not only the restorative practices but the researchers come from different cultural backgrounds. They are aware of self-selection bias, but random controlled trials have not yet been used. In several countries (notably Germany, but not England and Wales) they have the advantage of national...
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Victim impact programming in corrections: A team approach to reducing recidivism
April 21, 2011
….The YHTP victim impact curriculum covers ten topics: accountability, domestic violence, child abuse, drug addiction/drug dealing, DUI, property crime/burglary/robbery, sexual assault, hate crime/gang crime, crimes against the elderly, and homicide. We also talk about the difference...
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Forgiveness and reconciliation is topic of PBS documentary of U.N. humanitarian
April 17, 2011
Mapendo is a human rights hero, a survivor of nearly unspeakable atrocities who is now helping numerous other victims to recover and rebuild their lives. But “Pushing the Elephant†also shows the challenge of helping her daughter learn to forgive. Included is the story of her...
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