How do our words affect others and our practice?
July 13, 2010
A few things happened recently that caused me to start thinking along these lines again. First, several weeks ago I participated in a training for new facilitators. One person asked what we as facilitators get from the process. My response was something like “helping people in a very...
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A Business Case for Restorative Justice and Policing
July 13, 2010
… The use of Restorative Justice within UK police forces is increasing at a significant pace. In addition there is growing national interest in its application to develop both a victim-focused but low-bureaucratic disposal for low level offending and as a critical tool within...
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Help for the victims of crime — and the offenders
July 11, 2010
This is something victims’ groups have stressed for decades. The justice system fails to give victims and their families a voice, because the system is entirely focused on the offender. And this is something Suman and Manjit Virk know intimately. The parents of Reena Virk, who was...
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State in denial over Magdalenes
July 6, 2010
….It does not matter seemingly that the Department of Justice now admits, in the face of archival documentation, its own complicity in referring women to the laundries as an alternative to a prison sentence, or sending them to the laundries on remand and on probation. It does not matter...
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Students train to facilitate justice program
July 6, 2010
….Teaching Peace is a nonprofit that oversees the Longmont Community Justice Partnership — a citywide restorative justice program — and the RATE (Restorative Alternative to Expulsion) program in the St. Vrain Valley School District. Throughout the school district,...
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County can take the lead in ensuring juvenile justice
July 4, 2010
The commission’s report severely criticizes the zero-tolerance policies in public schools that cause “a less serious range of conduct†to be processed in court, condemning the frequent use of the justice system as a school disciplinarian. In discussing overuse of the courts...
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Lawyers as Peacemakers: Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law
July 4, 2010
Hopefully portions of the book will be excerpted in publications for the legal profession. Lawyers and legal workers who have never heard the umbrella terms “comprehensive law†and “integrative law†but know something is missing from their day-to-day experiences will no...
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Letter to the editor
July 4, 2010
The program allows the offender to take responsibility for their actions, to understand how their behavior affected the community and others and what can be done to repair the harm his or her actions have caused. The program is run almost entirely by volunteers. Estes Park is fortunate to have...
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UK Coalition: A revolution in justice?
July 4, 2010
The victim in any crime is – before anything else – a witness in the Crown’s drive to secure a conviction. The offence is committed against the state. Guilt is established in an adversarial court of law. Incarceration is the ultimate sanction, and success comes...
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About restorative justice
July 4, 2010
These exchanges can take the form of face-to-face meetings or by indirect methods such as third party mediation, taped recordings or letter exchanges. These exchanges of information are called conferences. RJ is a community based response to crime that emphasises the consequences of an offence...
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Promoting Restorative Justice in Panama
July 4, 2010
The four-hour seminars, organised by the Centro, were held in the capital cities of four of Panama’s provinces: Panama City, Chitre, Santiago, and David. Close to eighty representatives from the justice system attended each seminar. A representative from the prosecutor’s...
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Nick Herbert’s speech to the Policy Exchange
June 29, 2010
Without proper boundaries, there is an all-too-familiar escalation from childhood misdemeanours to juvenile anti-social behaviour to adult criminality. Children at risk of offending are not made to face the consequences of their actions. As a result, they grow up without ever...
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Mississippi officials agree to settlement in ’64 slayings
June 28, 2010
….Prof. BURNHAM: This case, from now 46 years ago, came back to public attention when the Justice Department in 2007 pursued a criminal case against one of the Klansmen. In the course of that investigation, one of the members of the Klan group who had committed the murder came forward...
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Pakistani reconciliation panels solve disputes
June 28, 2010
….The restorative justice system appeared in the United States in 1970 and spread across the globe. Its need here became felt when the fight against the militancy pressured the police and courts. Police stations were flooded with petty cases while bombs were going off outside. A lack of...
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