Saturday, November 18, 2006
Restorative justice: Day 4Categories: Conflict management
You can see how things develop… They used to call it ‘disturbing the King
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Comments
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T said on 06/11/24 at 01:24 AM.....
Ah yes - in a perfect world.. pity that more people place importance on short term revenge than long term solutions.
What is the suggestion for wide spread implimentation? -
Meenoo said on 06/11/24 at 05:41 PM.....
Libertarianism perphaps?
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j-ster said on 06/11/24 at 09:45 PM.....
Ms. T: Well now, thats a good point! Revenge tends to be addressed by the process itself - attendence is voluntary and conferencing as a diversion from the criminal justice system can only take place when the offender admits his/her guilt. Ill talk more about implementation later when i can bear to pick up the books again.
(Interestingly, the literature seems to hold Japan up as some kind of paragon of restorative practices, with confessions being the goal of the police processing and apologies and reparation being offered routinely. We can probably see some of the costs of that approach tho…)Meenoo: One aspect of conferencing is that it is supposed to be voluntary for all concerned, but for the offender it is probably just the lesser evil of his/her options. Most conferencing programs are government administered (tho there is private workplace and public school conferencing), as an alternative to the criminal justice system, in response to general concerns about the effectiveness of prisons (in any sense). Also, not sure that you can classify the fundamantal shift from viewing crime as a violation of human relationships rather than as an abstract violation of the law as libertarian… but otherwise, yeah kinda…. has some pretty strong communitarian elements tho… which are possibly more aparent in the next post…