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County team begins to tackle racial disparities in criminal justice
from Steven Elbow's article in the CapTimes:
We've heard a lot of talk about the staggering racial disparities in the state's criminal justice system in recent years. Wisconsin has routinely ranked at or near the top of states for the rate at which it locks up blacks compared with whites. And Dane County's progressive reputation has been tarnished by the rate at which it sends black offenders to prison - nearly half of black men between the ages of 25 and 29 residing in the county are either incarcerated or under court-ordered supervision. According to a study by Pam Oliver, a UW sociology professor, black men in Dane County are 21 times more likely to be incarcerated than white men. And according to a Justice Policy Institute report in 2007, black men in Dane County were 97 times more likely to be incarcerated for drug crimes, the second-highest rate in the nation.
A team from Dane County will take on the daunting task of tackling that problem, meeting for the first time on Monday. It will be their job to take recommendations released last fall by the Dane County Task Force on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System and make them work.
Comparing coercive and non-coercive interventions
from James McGuire's article in Transition to Adulthood:
There is a widespread perception that behaviour which society finds problematic can be changed by coercive methods: that those who are perceived as creating difficulties for others, even if they are partly understood to be experiencing difficulties themselves, will only change if they are constrained, controlled and compelled to do so.
Jun 09, 2010 Conceptual, Theory
Sequencing the administration of justice to enable the pursuit of peace: Can the ICC play a role in complementing restorative justice?
from the article by Tim Murithi:
The notion of justice remains an essentially contested concept. In fact there are multiple dimensions to justice. Retributive justice seeks to ensure prosecution followed by punishment for crimes or atrocities committed. Restorative justice strives to promote societal harmony through a quasi-judicial process of truth telling, acknowledgement, remorse, reparations, forgiveness, healing and reconciliation. Retributive or punitive justice is generally administered by a state-sanctioned legal institution or through the remit of international law. Restorative justice draws upon a range of mechanisms including truth commissions and other societal reconciliation institutions.
Jun 08, 2010 Retribution, Theory, National Reconciliation
