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Young vandals ordered to put Somerset factory damage right
from the article in the Western Gazette:
A gang of youths who broke into a Castle Cary factory have been ordered to make amends by washing site windows and picking up rubbish by a restorative justice panel.
A three-month police campaign which tracked down 14 children involved with causing £1,000 of damage to the Torbay Road factory ended last month.
Jan 30, 2012 Juvenile, Case:Burglary, Country:England&Wales, Practice, Region: Europe
This is restorative justice. And it works.
from the entry by danphillipsphoto on Liberal Sell Out:
Strathclyde police deserve heavy praise. Not only have they curbed gang violence (see this Guardian piece from yesterday) they have persuaded a Tory (led) government of the merits of restorative justice.
In the wake of the summer riots Cameron pointed to the success of Strathclyde police in dealing with gang violence: “I want us to use the record of success against gangs some cities like Boston in the USA and indeed the Strathclyde police in Scotland – who have done this by engaging the Police, the voluntary sector and local government. I want this to be a national priority”(full text here)
Jan 16, 2012 Policy, Politics, Country:England&Wales, Region: Europe
Restorative justice approach to schoolboy assault
from the Nottinghamshire Police webpage:
A new approach to resolving criminal matters has been used to deal with an assault on a Nottingham schoolboy.
A 14-year-old pupil collapsed after he was assaulted in a classroom by a fellow schoolboy at the National Church of England Academy on 22 September 2011.
Jan 13, 2012 Juvenile, Country:England&Wales, Practice, Story, Case:Violence, Region: Europe
“Humanistic” mediation: Another approach to manage and settle disputes?
from the entry by Christophe Imhoos on Kluwer Mediation Blog:
....Greek tragedy tends to express human pain and grief. So does mediation in a post-modern world that rejects feelings and emotions. Today politic does not address human needs: people move from an established to a negotiated order. This can be expressed through a ritualized practice, inspired from Greek tragedy that comprises the three following phases:
Jan 11, 2012 Dialogue, Theory, Country:Greece, Region: Europe, Country:France
