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Taos mother’s love triumphs over tragedy
from Chandra Johnson's article in The Taos News:
Four years after her death, Antonia Miera’s voice comes through her mother’s aging cell phone, dim but clear: “Hi, Mom. Call me when you get this.” Tammy Roybal-Gonzales has been holding onto that last voicemail from her 16-year-old daughter since a drunk-driving accident killed her in October 2006....
The man who killed Roybal- Gonzales’ daughter, 27-year-old Arturo Mondragón Jr., was released from prison in Los Lunas last month. And Roybal-Gonzales and her husband David are prepared to help Mondragón move on. Roybal-Gonzales and her husband David Gonzales credit a ground-breaking healing process called restorative justice for their ability to forgive Mondragón and welcome him back to Taos....
Nov 02, 2010 Story
Social work and restorative justice
from Howard Zehr's entry on Restorative Justice Blog:
Social Work and Restorative Justice: Skills for Dialogue, Peacemaking and Reconciliation, edited by Elizabeth Beck, Nancy P. Kropf and Pamela Blume-Leonard (Oxford University Press, 2011), is an important collection of essays on this subject. It will be of interest to both social work and restorative justice practitioners. The following is the Afterward that Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz and I were invited to contribute:
The field that has come to be known as restorative justice was born in experiment and practice rather than theory; the term “restorative justice” and the conceptual framework came later. Although it did not directly emerge from the field of social work, restorative justice was born in a context and era much influenced by social work. It is appropriate, then, that the fields of restorative justice and social work are again converging, as the authors in this volume so convincingly argue....
Nov 01, 2010 Distinguishing, Potential, Theory, Book Review
