RJC briefing on Ministry of Justice consultation: Getting it right for victims and witnesses

from the Restorative Justice Council website:

On 30th January 2012 the Ministry of Justice published Getting it right for victims and witnesses as a consultation document. Alongside a wide range of proposals to reform both support services for victims and witnesses, and criminal injuries compensation, the Government’s desire to develop provision of restorative justice for victims of crime is clear.

Mar 07, 2012 Limitations, Definition, Theory, Practice, Victim, Region: Europe

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As restorative justice practitioners, hard work needed regarding victims: Five things to do

from Kris Miner's blog Restorative Justice and Circles:

I want to offer some lessons for people who do restorative justice.  These lessons are for working with victims in either a victim-offender dialogue or a talking circle.  I think its important to keep up our compassion towards victims skills.  To really do our best, I have 5 things to work really hard at:

Jan 28, 2010 Limitations, Support, Practice, Victim

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Theory of trouble

by Dan Van Ness

The very interesting website Restorative Resources has this great quote from the organization's director:

"If, by the time a student has graduated high school, they have not gotten into significant trouble at least three times and found a positive way to resolve it each time, I suggest that their education is incomplete."

--Amos Clifford

As the father of a recent high school graduate, I'm not sure that I would have wished for my son to get into significant trouble three out of the four years he was there, but I get Clifford's point.

Jul 24, 2009 Limitations, Correspondent:Dan Van Ness, Support, Practice, Victim

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