CRIM 315 Lecture 4: Crime as a Human Problem
8 Apr 2017
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Crim315 chapter 4: restorative justice a vision of the good. Justice that puts its energy into the future, not the past. Difficult to define rj bc it has many roots that cannot be separated. In cj, offender and gov"t play main role. Possibilities to act on personal and collective responsibilities. Victim and community play supportive roles, if included at all. Participate in decision-making processes that produce reparative plans. Community represented by those who support victims/offenders. Others who are affected, such as witnesses. Volunteer facilitators trained to participate in community-based processes. Gov"t involved in funding and making referrals. Ready to take over if parties reject rj. Core principles: repair, stakeholder involvement, transformation of community, gov"t roles in the response to crime. Mystical nature of rj acts of restoration, restitution, and reconstruction of dignity. Renders the main parties central to the conflict, rather than subordinating them to institutional processes. Unexplainable moment when disagreement about act of malevolence is turned into agreement about.
