A Focus on victims of crime: A review of victims’ rights. Public consultation document.
April 23, 2010
First, a greater focus on victims will assist in reducing the cost and impact of crime on individuals and on society in general. The more quickly victims recover from their experience of the criminal offending committed against them, the better their outcomes are likely to be. Second, improved...
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A justice system that focuses on the victim, as well as the offender
April 23, 2010
The police and our insurance company treated us professionally and fairly, but still a lot of time was taken to talk to everyone. Time was needed to drive an hour to Alberta Beach to see if there were any personal items to be recovered, as well as to look for a new vehicle. But the...
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Students won’t be prosecuted after drug raid
April 21, 2010
The students, who are all serving suspensions from classes, were arrested on Friday, April 10 when police, acting on a complaint received from the community set up surveillance at the school and then arrested 25 young people for allegedly smoking and possessing marijuana in the rear parking...
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Parallel justice for victims of crime
April 20, 2010
….Susan acknowledges value in restorative justice programs but sees them as affecting a tiny minority of victims. Her words long ago have stuck with me: “I’ll believe restorative justice is victim-centered when it’s available whether or not an offender is...
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Restorative Justice: Crime and Healing
April 20, 2010
But these were not pretty stories we were hearing: a rape, an armed robbery, the murder of three elderly women. The tellers, Peg, Debbie and Tanya — the three angels, as many of the inmates started calling them — had been victimized by these crimes, and each spoke in unrelenting...
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Restorative Justice Everywhere: Final Update from the UN Crime Congress
April 17, 2010
Joanna Heskia, from Pontificia Universidad Católica y Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile, opened with an overview of advances in that country. She described the inclusion of restorative principles in a reform of the penal process that included alternative conflict resolution, reparative...
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Restorative Justice in Prison: Report from the UN Crime Congress
April 16, 2010
Marian Liebmann opened the session with an overview of trends around the world. She outlined two broad categories for restorative justice expressions in prison. The first was “Prisoners Making amends.†This aspect includes things such as: Community service Victim awareness/empathy/...
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Restorative Justice at the UN Crime Congress
April 12, 2010
During the afternoon plenary, the Congress took up two issues: 1) Children, Youth, and Crime and 2) Making the United Nations guidelines on crime prevention work. The Secretariat (or United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) presented discussion papers on each of the topics. Then, each of the...
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School takes no bully approach
April 8, 2010
“What’s different about Villanova is it doesn’t just see wrongdoing and then put the bully on detention or something,” Villanova’s vice-captain Sam McCall, 16, told ABC News Online. “The attitude is that the bully is the end product of problems; so the...
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Judicial system fails in hate crime
April 8, 2010
After Michael Gordon pleaded guilty to assaulting Erik Rozenski about six months ago near Richmond Row, Ontario Court Justice John Getliffe handed Gordon a suspended sentence with two years probation. The court heard how after a night of drinking, Gordon and an unidentified man encountered...
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Youths who broke into Pendle firm apologise
April 8, 2010
….The youths were given the chance to explain their actions in the meeting, which was set up by local neighbourhood officers PCs Mark Hyde and Matt Lunney. Mr Gabbett told the gang that the roof could have collapsed on them as they climbed on it, and that they were putting their lives at...
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Restorative justice to be tried
April 8, 2010
Several local judges and the Jefferson County attorney have been examining how to implement a pilot program of restorative justice, which advocates argue will cut down on repeat offenders, keeping students out of detention centers and in the classroom. “It’s focused on holding you...
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Will it go ’round in circles?
April 7, 2010
….Like Waring, healing circles have forced Effie Steele, whose daughter was murdered in 2007, to confront some of her anger, hurt and grief. She experienced her first healing circle last year during a restorative justice conference. “At first it was like no big deal, but then when...
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Maufas’ daughter took items, superintendent says
April 7, 2010
No police report was filed. Garcia said the district declined to contact police regarding the laptop theft because the computer never left the building and was returned in 24 hours. “Had the computer been taken off grounds, I might have viewed it differently,” he said. Francesca...
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