Martin Wright: Review of Peacemaking Circles & Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home
April 30, 2009
Peacemaking Circles & Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home, by Carolyn Boyes-Watson. St Paul, MN: Living Justice Press, 2008. 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-9721886-4-7 pbk. Professor Boyes-Watson has written an enthusiastic book about the benefits of this method – indeed...
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Lisa Rea: Justice, forgiveness and victims of crime
April 29, 2009
I began thinking about this after reading New Zealander Kim Workman’s recent article called “Positive Justice and Forgiveness” ( RECAP Newsletter, Issue 54, Feb. 2009). Here are some things that came to mind. First, no one can ever force a victim to forgive an...
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Restorative justice travel blogs
February 24, 2009
Rocco Puopolo kept a blog called Restorative Justice in West Africa during his trip, and Beth Tuckey and Bahati Ntama Jacques called theirs (Restorative Justice in the Great Lakes Region). They are finding support for restorative justice interventions not only among the citizens of these...
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Witness Justice: help and healing for victims of violence
February 24, 2009
Restorative justice is an umbrella term encompassing a wide range of programs and approaches. In general, restorative justice proponents seek a holistic, integrated sense of justice and healing for victims, as well as personal accountability from offenders. For some, the concept of restorative...
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CorStone Center uses restorative justice circles to build emotional resilience
February 24, 2009
Emotional Resilience is defined as the ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises – to function competently, powerfully and peacefully when dealing with conflict or adversity. Resilience is not a quality that one does or does not possess; there are varying degrees to...
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What’s wrong with this picture?
February 24, 2009
32 of the essays are on restorative justice. Let’s review the values of restorative justice: truth-telling, integrity, (and for those who have used this kind of resource to turn in as homework) accountability, apology, amends, (and for their teachers) respect, forgiveness,...
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Georgia State University to launch national resource for restorative justice
February 24, 2009
The clearinghouse will include a state-by-state guide to statutes, case law, agencies and programs. The clearinghouse will also provide a method of social networking to allow those in the field to interface with one another, as well as academic articles, legal resources and research into the...
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Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s restorative justice page
February 24, 2009
Restorative justice aims to repair harm done to a survivor/victim of sexual violence, (and where appropriate to their families/communities) through offender acceptance of responsibility, reparations and rehabilitation, whether as a supplementary process, or an alternative, to conventional...
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Making information about restorative programmes available to juvenile justice personnel and planners
February 24, 2009
Each agency listed provides an organizational objective related to restorative justice and indicates which of a series of restorative programmes it offers. From this page, navigate to the three restorative justice pages (they are also in the drop down navigation that appears after clicking...
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Victims and victimizers
February 24, 2009
It was late at night when non-gang member David and his gang member friend were hanging out at a park close to his home in Los Angeles. David had left his house while his single mom was working at her second job. She would arrive by 2 a.m. Minutes later, gang members got out of...
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Lynette Parker: Listening to stories
February 5, 2009
As a facilitator, I rarely show emotion in a conference. Yet, on this afternoon as the young man sat across from a member of our community describing his experience both of the crime he committed and his prison experience I couldn’t stop the tears. Zack had his entire future ahead...
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Rethinking US prison policy: II
January 20, 2009
Pat Nolan of Justice Fellowship takes a look at one state’s corrections budget and the priorities it represents: The proposed Department of Corrections budget is a whopping 6.7 percent of all state expenditures, $1.4 billion. This is double the $724 million spent just eight years ago in...
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Mediation and conferencing in child protection disputes: special issue of Family Court Review
January 20, 2009
The Family Court Review: An interdisciplinary journal is the journal of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, published in cooperation with the Center for Children, Families and the Law at Hofstra University School of Law. This special issue was guest edited by Bernie Mayer and...
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Will Hull (UK) become a restorative city?
January 19, 2009
Nigel Richardson, Hull’s director of Children and Young People’s Services, is leading the restorative initiative. Hull- — population 250,000, with 57,000 children — had a thriving fishing industry that disappeared several generations ago, and the city failed to...
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Friday Discussion: RJ funding
January 19, 2009
What are you doing to raise funds for your...
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