Justice

Bill sponsor, Roger GoodmanOn March 30, 2012 Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law legislation that makes restorative justice available to youth offenders. The bill...

Mark Finnis, of Hull Centre for Restorative Practice, an IIRP affiliateAccording to the netnewsledger.com, on March 26, 2012, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada hosted:

...a conference on...

Jo Berry, from Lisa Rea interview at Restorative Justice OnlineJean Schmitz, director of IIRP Latin America, sent me a link to this piece he found at RJOnline (originally posted last...

This Saturday, April 1, 2012, will see a world-first event, bringing a corporate CEO face to face with the victims of their crimes against the Earth through restorative justice...

Illustration of the CenterI've been saving this news for a rainy day, and here it is. This article, "Tribal Justice Center First of Its Kind" by Lisa Kopochinski for Correctional...

Miguel Tello, director of IIRP Central America, appeared on a radio podcast - This Is Wisdom - based, I believe in Canada. Miguel is very articulate and talks about his own...

The IIRP eForum provides short, hopeful emails that include brief summaries and links to significant articles, research reports and other information about the growing field of...

Here's a truly lovely video of restorative justice pioneer Mark Yantzi of Canada speaking about the inspiration for some of the first victim-offender meetings as a way of resolving a...

photo by AlecSchueler at Flickr Creative CommonsAn article from the Irish Times discusses the use of restorative justice as one solution to making an impact in terms of dealing with...

Aboriginal Children in a Canadian Residential SchoolFrom the 1870s to the 1990s, more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were taken from their families and placed in...

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Introduction

Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing Peace in Bougainville, published September...

Coos Bay Bridge. Photo by Too Far North (Karyn Christner) via Flickr Creative CommonsHere's a story about a restorative justice program embedded in the court system on a tribal...

Representatives from the Flanker Peace and Justice Centre in Montego BayHere are links to two more articles from Jamaica regarding Restorative Justice Week (Feb. 5 - 11, 2012).

The...

In this piece, "Less Prison, better prevention of crime,"Australian criminologist John Braithwaite argues that the evidence shows in so many areas that restorative rather than...

MEREPS – Mediation and Restorative Justice in Prison Settings – was a three-year project funded by the EU. According to the now freely available PDF Handbook on Using Restorative...

(From left) Justice Minister Mark Golding, Chief Justice Zaila McCalla, and Robert Rainford, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Justice, share a light moment prior to Thursday’s...

Susan Miller, professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware, has received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences...

"We must also propose new ways of life... that means shifting from a punitive mindset to a restorative one."

I'm working on a new eForum article about a program called FaithCARE...

As a followup to Wednesday's post about the upcoming student-led initiative in Philadelphia - "End Violence Through Restorative Justice" - organized by The Campaign for...

Here's a post written by Sylvia Clute on her Genuine Justice blogand based on a workshop she attended at IIRP's 14th Conference in Nova Scotia last summer. The workshop was given by...