Restorative justice blog advice: 6 tips from Kris Miner
December 29, 2010
1) write in your voice. Try to write like you are telling someone the story…. 2) expand yourself. Reach when you post, share your perspective, in a non-judgemental way…. 3) have thick skin and an open mind. Be ready for any type of feedback…. 4) set your...
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HMP Hewell wins accolades at Malvern Autumn Show
December 16, 2010
Entitled ‘Pathway to Progression’, the garden was designed to highlight the prisoner’s journey along the road to rehabilitation and showed how prison interventions are designed to help offenders resettle back into the community at the end of their sentence. The garden was...
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Who takes ownership of a restorative justice programme?
December 16, 2010
….My support, as a police officer, for Restorative Justice came from an awareness of the frustration towards the criminal justice system felt within the communities in which I worked. A great deal of that frustration came from the belief that people who had been involved in, or affected...
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How do people experience using restorative practice at work?
December 16, 2010
Goodwin became interested in restorative practice nearly five years ago and has trained all of its 300 employees in restorative approaches. More recently the Trust formed a relationship with the Hull Centre for Restorative Practices and the University of Hull’s law department. In May...
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US national conservatives unveil Right On Crime initiative
December 16, 2010
Texas Public Policy Foundation President Brooke L. Rollins told reporters that Texas saved billions while its crime rate declined 9 percent. Rollins said the project will help cash-strapped state save money while continuing to crack down on violent crime. Levin added that the Texas crime rate...
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‘Restorative justice’ school program reduces student delinquency
December 16, 2010
The study, School-Based Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Zero-Tolerance Policies, was conducted by UC Berkeley School of Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. Researchers spent one year observing the program at the Cole Middle School in West Oakland, California,...
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Circling self-interest and democracy
December 15, 2010
He then moves into less traveled terrain by exploring the socio-ethical foundations of restorative justice. Why is it right to prefer restorative justice even if it turned out to offer no instrumental advantages over criminal justice? He considers Boutellier’s suggestion that rather...
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Against my will
December 13, 2010
The meeting room was a dilapidated cement tomb, with barely enough room for all of the prisoners (17) to sit with Jacques, my friend and spiritual advisor, Bill Glenn, and I. The prisoners, dressed in dark blue jeans and light blue denim shirts, started to fill the room. As they...
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Support, history of Genesee Justice motivated director to ensure division saved
December 13, 2010
“I didn’t want to see Genesee Justice and the great history of Judge Call (former Sheriff Doug Call) and Dennis (Wittman, founding GJ director), and the love and caring they put into it, evaporate into a memory.” ….When Gsell first presented his draft budget to the...
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Green Paper: Breaking the cycle – Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders
December 13, 2010
79. While it is a well established concept in youth justice, restorative justice for adults is sometimes viewed as an afterthought to sentencing. We are looking at how we might change this so that in appropriate cases restorative justice is a fundamental part of the sentencing process....
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Burundians want truth and reconciliation body: official
December 12, 2010
He told journalists that his six-member committee on Tuesday handed its findings to President Pierre Nkurunziza and will also present them to the UN and to civil society groups. The committee, made up of two government representatives, two UN officials and two civil society members was set up...
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Can bullying be mediated?
December 12, 2010
….If laws and policies defining and prohibiting workplace bullying were established – especially if accompanied by awareness campaigns and/or training, it would probably help people develop a more common understanding of bullying behavior and its impacts. Anti-bullying laws and...
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A lesson in manners
December 12, 2010
To Facebook Users: Facebook has become very popular over the past few years. With its popularity come also some risks in using it. More people are getting in trouble for engaging in inappropriate and/or illegal activities on Facebook. This is the story of three teenagers who committed one of...
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Restorative Justice on Death Row: healing for crime victims?
December 12, 2010
Many encounters like this end up having an important effect on the work I do. Ines began sharing with me information about the inmate including the fact that he had committed vile acts of violence. He had raped and murdered a 12-year old girl. He had also raped numerous women, so numerous he...
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Research database reaches 10000
December 4, 2010
Ahearne, Alison (2010). Restorative practice with the under-fives at Clifton Children’s Centre. Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. 37 (Autumn): 7. Appleby, R. Scott (2010). Peacebuilding and Catholicism: affinities, convergences, possibilities.In, Robert j....
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