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U of G, city working on restorative justice program for off-campus students

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:43:57 +0000

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Restorative justice is a way of dealing with crime or conflict that encourages meaningful accountability in offenders, reparation, understanding, and hopefully resolves the conflict. When offender and victim are able to meet face-to-face, they can ...
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Chat Recap: Janine Geske chats about the release of sexual abuse records by ...

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:43:57 +0000

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As the Archdiocese of Milwaukee releases thousands of documents related to sexual abuse, Janine Geske, a Marquette University law professor who directs the school's restorative justice initiative, discusses how the idea of restorative justice can help ...
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Councils Launch New Youth Offending Service

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:37:36 +0000

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... and crime, and importantly put in place measures for each individual to reduce the likelihood of re-offending - using a range of methods including education and training, health and substance misuse services, Restorative Justice and reparation to ...
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Volunteers sought for neighbourhood justice campaign in Darlington

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:14:11 +0000

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It is part of a new era of so-called 'restorative justice' and will see petty criminals brought before their victims to apologise and make amends – such as repairing damaged property. Proceedings will be overseen by a trained member of the public ...
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Opinion: Criminal Justice Reform And Risk-Taking

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:18:11 +0000

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By Greg Berman All Articles According to a national survey of court ... Assistance commissioned researchers at the Center for Court Innovation to survey the ...

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Dead end for anti-theft course

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:52:14 +0000

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IT was a bittersweet moment for Mission Australia state director Noel Mundy when he congratulated the graduates of anti-car theft program U-Turn's course 42. Yesterday's ceremony marked the end of the restorative justice program after 10 years, during ...
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Collaborative Law - an Alternative Law - An Alternative to Court ...

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:08:44 +0000

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Collaborative law gives the parties to a marital breakdown an alternative method of resolving their issues and disputes. It is geared towards the ongoing ...

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A Spiritual Way of Seeing

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 23:09:24 +0000

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In this article, as well as in my new book, Another Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics, and Culture (Quid Pro Books), from which this piece is adapted, I am offering one expression of a worldwide effort now taking place to bring ...
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Fewer kids in Illinois prisons

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:12:13 +0000

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“The more we treat anyone with a juvenile kind of approach – community-based, individualized, restorative justice before you ever go through a court door – the better off we are,” Clarke said. Illinois lawmakers also debated a bill that would have ...
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Juvenile Program Lives Another Year

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:18:39 +0000

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According to the Ingham County Prosecutor's office, "the plan of the program is to divert low-level juvenile offenders and school disciplinary cases into a restorative justice program, operated by the Resolution Services Center." They promote healthy ...
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'Restorative justice' for young Cedars Hotel arsonists

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:54:04 +0000

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Inspector Dave Meredith said they had been punished by means of "restorative justice" – community work such as cleaning streets and buildings. The Verto Group, which owns the site of the derelict hotel on the corner of St George's Road and Mount Wise, ...
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5 Things: Restorative Justice at St. Lukes

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:16:14 +0000

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1. Beginning at 7 p.m. in the lower section of St. Luke's Parish, 132 Lexington St., attorney Erin Freeborn, will be presenting a talk on Restorative Justice, a model of high support and high accountability which allows those impacted by a crime to ...
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Fairfax program focuses on justice and discipline

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:40:05 +0000

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advertisement. Restorative justice could be considered a first cousin once removed of the modern-day interpretation of the Hippocratic oath: First, do no harm. For restorative justice focuses on repairing harm that has been done – and preventing future ...
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Magdalene laundries' controversy - 20 years on

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:40:05 +0000

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Simultaneously, the Justice For Magdalenes Campaign (JFM) lobbied the Government and the Catholic Church for apologies and restorative justice measures for the ageing cohort of survivors and their families. In 2011, JFM's a recently-graduated legal ...
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… and justice for all

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:12:28 +0000

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The concept of restorative justice is one not even the most rational of minds in the country could have thought of in the aftermath of the horrific Delhi rape incident. It was, then, fascinating to come across the concept, again based on the principle ...
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YMC receives chemical health grant

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:37:31 +0000

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GRANITE?FALLS?- The Yellow Medicine County Board met Tuesday afternoon rather than its regularly scheduled time because of the Board of Equalization meeting. The first item of business was to confirm Restorative Justice Coordinator Sharon Hendrichs ...
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T&T, Canada join forces to upgrade prison security

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:44:38 +0000

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In its partnership with Canada, T&T is aiming to improve its restorative justice system to strengthen security systems and examining ways of upgrading the country's prisons. Making the statement yesterday was Justice Minister Christlyn Moore who was ...
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Trinidad Guardian

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Making A Difference: Pro Bono At Jones Day

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:56:58 +0000

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Editor: One of the awards of the many you have received for your efforts was the recognition you received in being named DC Bar Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year.

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A Family Celebration

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:47:25 +0000

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She holds a Bachelor, Masters, and a Doctorate in Restorative Justice. She is a co-founder of Church of the Crossroads in Laredo, Texas and has ministered from London to Peru, from Guatemala to Hawaii and across the United States, before God called her ...
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Iowa View: Critics misleading people over juveniles

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:47:25 +0000

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AMOS claims, without any factual basis, that “Polk County has largely abandoned its commitment to a restorative justice approach to juvenile accountability and replaced it with a punitive and increasingly racially biased system of justice.” This ...
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FCRJ meets with Salida police

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:47:25 +0000

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Officer James Brown, Longmont Police Department liaison officer with the Longmont Community Justice Partnership, told Salida police officers Friday how they can work with restorative justice. Brown was accompanied by members of local Full Circle ...
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Canada helps TT prison reform

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:09:46 +0000

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“We are interested in the Canadian model of restorative justice and how that was being implemented...As you know, we are moving towards jammers and grabbers. They have an interim position on this and so we were interested in seeing what could be used ...
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Arc of Justice

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:50:49 +0000

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In Nagaland's case, old practices of Restorative Justice must not be lost in time. In the present scenario many indigenous communities that have practiced customary laws for generations are marrying both forms of justice deliverance. The Native ...
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JPs Encouraged to Get Involved in Restorative Justice

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:05:17 +0000

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According to Mrs. Palmer, the Restorative Justice programme seeks to pass on positive values and attitudes and create a more respectful and forgiving environment, which will reduce such unfortunate incidents. She lamented that too many Jamaicans do not ...
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Staten Island's Collaborative Law Group Offers Alternative Way to ...

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:24:44 +0000

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Newly introduced to the borough, the process of Collaborative Law, or Collaborative Practice, provides a means for voluntary dispute resolution in which ...

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JPs Encouraged to Get Involved in Restorative Justice

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:16:25 +0000

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Justices of the Peace (JPs) are being encouraged to get involved in the Restorative Justice process being undertaken by the Ministry of Justice, to help create a more peaceful society. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Carol Palmer, made the call as ...
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Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service

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Want to Keep Kids From Skipping School? These Teens Have Some Ideas

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:38:17 +0000

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That's the whole idea behind the Youth Justice Board, a project of New York's Center for Court Innovation. Every year, the YJB recruits a group of about 20 ...

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School Hopes Talking It Out Keeps Kids From Dropping Out

Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:46:01 +0000

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With traditional discipline, the focus is on rules and punishment: Break rule X, get punishment Y. With restorative justice, Rohr explains, the focus is on harm done and relationships. For instance, if a student starts a fight in the hall — normally ...
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Schools Try 'Restorative Justice' To Keep Kids From Dropping Out

Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:04:32 +0000

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Out-of-school suspensions are on the rise across the country, a troubling statistic when you consider being suspended just once ups a student's chances of dropping out entirely. That's why many districts are hoping to keep kids in school by trying an ...
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Schools Try 'Restorative Justice' To Keep Kids From Dropping Out

Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:38:29 +0000

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But if a fight is about to break out or already has, that's when Margaret Rohr, who runs the conflict resolution room, uses "restorative justice." "Restorative practices basically establish a complete paradigm shift from traditional discipline," Rohr says.
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