Go to prison

posted by Andrea Schneider on Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog:

Last week I had the honor of joining my colleague Janine Geske on her regular journey to Green Bay Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison reminiscent of the prison in Shawshank Redemption.  The prisoners at Green Bay run the gamut of serious crimes from sexual assault to drug distribution to armed robbery to homicide.  Janine runs a three-day session on restorative justice, meeting with about twenty prisoners as part of a several-month program on the challenges and possibilities faced by these men.  She has been running this program here for years as part of our Restorative Justice Initiative, and I was so excited to finally fit this in my schedule.  Having done this trip last week and then spent the past weekend in services for Rosh Hashanah, I have had plenty of time to reflect on crime, punishment, repentance, and redemption.  In retrospect, I don’t know that I could have timed this better.  Suffice it to say, the experience was amazing.

Sep 30, 2009 Other, Victim, Prison

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Treasures: Victims Voice, Safe Justice and Lemonade

by Dan Van Ness

I just came across several treasures that will be extremely useful to people who have been, who love, or who work with crime victims.

The first is the website of Victims' Voice, a Canadian NGO sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee and whose purpose is "to address the revictimization of victims in the criminal justice system, to create understanding about victims among practitioners who work within the system and to give emotional and informational support directly to victims through victim-centered programs."

The website has a number of resources that can be downloaded. And it contains links to two more sites, also sponsored by Victims' Voice.

Sep 14, 2009 Practice, Correspondent:Dan Van Ness, Mediation, Other, Victim

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Christian colleges/universities in US with peace studies programs

Posted by Michael Westmoreland-White in his blog Levellers:

As a service, I thought I would list all the U.S.  colleges and universities that have programs with names like “peace studies,” “peace and global studies,” “peacebuilding and conflict resolution studies,” etc.

I found there were enough that I decided just to  list the church-related ones and do the others in a separate post. Typically, such programs are multi-disciplinary involving faculty from several departments including international studies, history, philosophy, religious studies, international law, economic development, and/or political science or sociology.

Sep 04, 2009 Academic, Other, Country:USA

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