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	Transformative justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Transformative justice seeks to see problems, as not only the beginning of the crime but also the causes of crime, and try to treat an offense as a transformative relational and educational opportunity for victims, offenders and all other members of the affected community.
		Transformative justice is concerned with root causes and comprehensive outcomes.
		In contrast to restorative justice, no quantification or assessment of loss or harms or any assignment of the role of victim is made, and no attempt to compare the past (historical) and future (normative or predicted) conditions is made either.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transformative_justice (504 words)

	Crime Peace & Justice In Jamaica
		Transformation is about change; it begins, importantly, with having the will and the courage to change.
		Both restorative and community justice are based on the premise that communities will be strengthened if local citizens participate in responding sensibly to crime; and both envision responses tailored to the preferences and needs of victims, communities and offenders.
		THE PRACTICE OF restorative justice, aspects of which are already in place in areas around the country, holds that criminal justice systems should actively engage the parties touched by crime in repairing the injustices caused by crime.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/crime/crime2.html (2748 words)

	Central committee document - Being church and overcoming racism:
		Churches, as communities of transformative justice, are called to confess when "wittingly or unwittingly, [the church] condones attitudes which allow injustice to continue or which obscure the root causes of injustice.
		Understanding that transformative justice has to be rooted in specific contexts led to the decision to base this session in specific experience.
		Applying transformative justice in the structures and institutions of societies means redressing the deeply rooted inequalities expressed in the poverty of racially and ethnically oppressed peoples, especially women and children.
	www2.wcc-coe.org /ccdocuments.nsf/index/plen-4-en.html (12310 words)

	Directory - Society: Issues: Crime and Justice: Prisons: Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Equal Justice USA, A Project of the Quixote Center · cached · Equal Justice USA works to abolish the death penalty through its Moratorium Now campaign; works for human rights in the U.S. justice system.
		JUSTICE ACTION - Australia · iweb · cached · Information concerning New South Wales prisons and statistics, extensive criminal justice links and resources, JA issues and campaigns, Framed magazine and the International Conference on Penal Abolition and others.
		Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice · cached · The Fund supports the WMK Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, celebrates our heroes at an annual awards evening, and makes grants to fierce and energetic projects to help guarantee the legacy of William Moses Kunstler.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=136188 (1635 words)

	Restorative Justice and School Discipline
		Restorative justice in the school setting, views misconduct, not as school-rule-breaking, and therefore a violation of the institution, but as a violation against people and relationships in the school and wider school community.
		On a practical, "consumer" level, restorative justice processes such as community conferencing, generate greater levels of participant satisfaction (procedural, emotional and substantive) including a sense of justice, greater levels of social support for those affected and reduced levels of reoffending, borne out by the evaluations in both studies (Department of education, 1996, Education Queensland, 1998).
		Restorative justice views indiscipline as harm to relationships and in doing so, problem-solving can be focused on the present (repairing the harm), and the future (transforming the system in some way to prevent further harm).
	www.iirp.org /library/schooldisc.html (5342 words)

	[PRISONACT] report: International Conference On Penal Abolition (ICOPA X)
		He touched upon areas related to Healing Justice and problems with the present Criminal Justice System: racist, classist etc. He stated that the death penalty is generally "in favor of politicians" and pointed out that "picking out enemies is publicly convenient." He ended off by stating that the death penalty has no redeeming value.
		Penal abolitionists are vehement in their pursuit for true social justice and feel that this begins with the proper recognition of all harms followed thereafter by properly represented=, relevant necessary actions as defined by the voiced needs of all affected victims, offenders and community members.
		To transform is to look at the roots of why the harm occurred and to deal with the poisons that allowed it to grow into harm (i.e.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2002-October/005959.html (11490 words)

	Transformative Justice by Karlene Faith
		Often this is because of lack of trust in the criminal justice system, but often it is because the person who offended and the victim are personally connected in some way.
		They still have to be held accountable for the theft, but rather than mindless punishment in a prison where legal and illegal addictions are maintained, they should be given a chance to work with their problems in a supportive environment where true healing can occur.
		Retributive justice is in the hands of the state and assumes adversarial outcomes: one side wins, the other loses.
	www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca /issues/transform_justice.html (1587 words)

	Seeking Transformaive Justice For Women: Views from Canada.
		A shift toward restorative or transformative justice, theoretically, is reintegrative in that it benefits the offender, the victim and the community.
		As employed by criminal justice agencies, however, restorative justice can also have the effects of both "net-widening," that is, extending the boundaries of criminal justice surveillance and authority, and re-entrenching women’s subordination through informal conflict resolution which fails to address structural power imbalances.
		Transformative justice affirms that mindful, collective work, within a region or a jurisdiction but with international alliances, may incrementally transform social conditions and human relations, and build or strengthen communities.
	www.bridgew.edu /SoAS/jiws/nov00/seeking.htm (5621 words)

	Criminal justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The present system of retributive justice, based on punishment and infliction of pain, serves to continue rather than stop, the cycle of violence.
		Instead of removing the offenders, be they individuals or corporations, from the consequences of, and responsibility for their actions, green justice systems should involve them as much as possible in the process of restoration and compensation for what they have done.
		Restorative and transformative justice would emphasize crime prevention by looking at the systemic roots of crime in inequality and alienation.
	www.greenparty.org /plat/p_crim.html (658 words)

	Stories of Transformative Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Stories of Transformative Justice she outlines why the current adversarial system of justice fails victims, offenders, their families, and ultimately society in general.
		She is the spiritual force behind CSPI’s Social Justice series.
		Twenty years of work in the criminal justice system as a university professor, social activist, speaker and author have enabled her to build many alternatives, including the Toronto Bail Program, a mediation service, and two halfway houses.
	www.cspi.org /books/s/stories.htm (346 words)

	Statement on Transformative Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Transformative justice seeks to change forms of behaviour that society cannot accept, and wherever possible to do this without the need for retributive prison sentences.
		Restorative Justice, based on community group conferencing, is a process that brings together victim, offender and other people involved to empower them to work towards reparation, reconciliation and healing.
		Our ultimate vision is of a transformative justice system which meets the true needs of both crime victims and offenders - and of a society where prisons as we know them now will cease to exist.
	www.quaker.org.nz /whoweare/transformative.htm (649 words)

	Meta United at www.metaunited.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Transformative Justice is but one of many restorative justice models aimed at healing the wounds created by crime in our communities.
		But it is one of the most remarkable because it seeks to heal the wounds between the families of murder victims and the murderers.
		So she entered a Transformative Justice program and began a year long process, with the agreement of her son's murderer, preparing to meet him.
	www.metaunited.net /transformativejustice90.html (818 words)

	The Minnesota Restorative Justice Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Restorative justice," "community justice," "transformative justice"—whatever term we like best—the vision is one calling us to build a society which honors the individual dignity of every human being and the centrality of relationships which give meaning to our lives.
		The purpose of the DOC Restorative Justice Initiative is to promote and support the use of practices, policies, and programs chat focus on repairing the harm of crime and strengthening communities in all jurisdictions around the state.
		The Restorative Justice Initiative is also assisting several city neighborhood groups in developing ways for neighborhoods to be involved in holding offenders accountable and reintegrating offenders into the community fabric to avoid future offenses.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /nij/rest-just/ch1/mnrjmodel.htm (2170 words)

	Restorative Justice - Morris, Ruth. Why Transformative Justice? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this address, Ruth Morris describes her transition from an advocate of restorative justice to an advocate of transformative justice.
		In particular, she details how she believes restorative justice suffers from flawed words and analysis, and why transformative justice accurately diagnoses the problem and offers the appropriate response to the problem.
		Restorative justice is a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused or revealed by criminal behaviour.
	www.restorativejustice.org /asp/details.asp?ID=2768 (198 words)

	The Centre for Restorative Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The course will contrast restorative justice with the dominant retributive/punitive model of justice and provide an introduction to a variety of both established and emerging expressions of restorative justice including, victim/offender reconciliation programs, family/group conferencing and circle remedies.
		The idea of “justice” is problematized in the comparison between restorative and retributive justice concepts.
		This is a course on praxis: the marriage of theory and practice in development and implementation of restorative (transformative) justice models.
	www.sfu.ca /cfrj/courses.html (1470 words)

	Central committee document - Report of the policy reference committee II
		Transformative justice is a costly commitment to justice.
		Justice and equity must be at the heart of any sustainable economic, social or environmental system supporting the whole earth community.
		The Central Committee recommends that the churches advocate through their governments, through the UN and its environmental agencies, that instruments be put in place for the restoration and repair of damages caused by the exploitation of Third World resources and of the environment.
	www2.wcc-coe.org /ccdocuments.nsf/index/gen-17-en.html (3132 words)

	APMF abstracts - Practice theory
		In their recent book, Transforming Conflict, David Moore and fellow Transformative Justice Australia Director John McDonald introduced a theory of conflict transformation and a very practical guide to using “conferencing” to transform conflict in workplaces and other communities.
		He taught at Melbourne University and Charles Sturt, where he coordinated Justice Studies and was centrally involved in the Australian pilot of community conferencing.
		He is the Program Director, Bachelor of Management (Justice) at the University of South Australia, an Associate of the Australian Institute of Criminology, and, most recently, the author of (with John Tomaino, eds), Considering Crime and Justice: Realities and Responses, Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing, 2000.
	www.unisa.edu.au /cmrg/apmf/2001/abstracts/theory.htm (1300 words)

	JusticeAction Australia : ICOPA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The resolutions illustrate the extent to which the elements of crisis in criminal justice and penal systems are experienced by countries from all over the world.
		The delegates to the 8th International Conference on penal abolition, held in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand in February 1997, come from 17 countries and four continents; we are justice officials, agency workers, lawyers, community workers, judges, and people who have lived in prison as well as been victims of crime.
		We urge that victims and offenders and officials who have experienced youth justice family group conferences be consulted as to methods of implementing such conferencing with a view to achieving restorative/transformative justice outcomes.
	www.justiceaction.org.au /ICOPA/icopa_8res.html (765 words)

	Full Story
		The restorative justice movement has given Christopher Marshall a new angle from which to see what so many have overlooked the kind of justice taught in the New Testament.
		Beyond Retribution does not simply protest against the present dysfunctional criminal justice system, based as it is on a hodgepodge of retribution, deterrence, and rehabilitation, nor does it only advocate a better practice of victim-offender reconciliation; instead, it offers a developed theory underlying a changed and much improved system that could finally be called just.
		His chapter titled The Justice of God in Paul and Jesus strikes a gospel chord and provides the benchmark for thinking about both atonement theory and penal philosophy and procedures in society.
	www.ecapc.org /newspage_detail.asp?print=Yes&control=786 (616 words)

	Young Adult Ministries: Young adults and justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Welcome to the Young Adults Justice Page, a source for information about social justice issues and action/advocacy opportunities for young adults as well as feedback from UCC young adults participating in such issues across the globe.
		The multiracial/multicultural group, representing justice offices of ecclesiastical groups from around the world, gathered at the WCC offices in Geneva, Switzerland, in Oct. 2004.
		One of those young persons was Amritha Perumalla, a member of the Church of South India (a partner church of the United Church of Christ and Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]) and a recent graduate of Ohio Wesleyan College.
	www.ucc.org /youngadults/justice.htm (694 words)

	Living Justice Press -- Contact Us
		Do you have restorative justice stories and experiences that may inspire or be instructive for others?
		If we could help arrange for a local journalist to do a story about restorative justice in your area, would you be willing to tell him or her about your work?
		We also invite you to join the Living Justice Press community by adding your name to our mailing list.
	www.livingjusticepress.org /index.asp?Type=B_LOC&SEC={8E5B84FC-9764-42D1-BC76-9E168257B505} (328 words)

	SFU Library - Restorative Justice
		Restorative justice is a valued-based approach to criminal justice, with a balanced focus on the offender, victim, and community.
		The foundation of restorative justice is to determine the harm resulting from a crime, what needs to be done to repair the harm, and who is responsible for repairing the harm.
		The dominant approach to criminal justice at the present time is sometimes called retributive justice and is focused on determining what law was broke, who broke it, and how should they be punished.
	www.lib.sfu.ca /researchhelp/subjectguides/crim/classes/crim033315.htm (3218 words)

	Lot more to it than longer sentences - Green Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, overall justice policy should not be based on the small minority of truly sadistic criminals.
		Courts are necessary for some cases, but far greater victim satisfaction and offender accountability result from the use of Restorative Justice, Marae Justice, Transformative Justice and the like.
		Ensuring justice for victims and holding offenders to account, combined with reducing unemployment and other forms of social and economic marginalisation, are our most powerful weapons against crime.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/other7645.html (1003 words)

	Restorative Justice - FCL Education Fund CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Over the past twenty years, significant practical and theoretical work has been done in many countries to establish a form of victim-oriented justice that is described as restorative, transformative, or community centered.
		In practical terms, this often means that avenues of communication are re-opened between victims and offenders so that the people who have been injured by a crime can recover a sense of safety, and get answers to their questions about the crime and the offender.
		The Judicial council has outlined a framework for "collaborative justice" projects that emphasize the community-building possibilities for the judiciary.
	www.webcom.com /peace/PEACTREE/fcl/edufund/rp-rest-j.html (359 words)

	FALL SEMESTER 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An examination and analysis of the principles, assumptions, key concepts and applications of restorative (Transformative) justice.
		The course will contrast restorative justice with the dominant retributive/punitive model of justice and provide an introduction to a variety of both established and emerging expressions of restorative justice including, victim/offender reconciliation programs, family/group conferencing and circle remedies.
		This course is an introduction to the restorative/transformative justice paradigm.
	www.sfu.ca /criminology/outlines/02-3/315le023.htm (178 words)

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