Restorative Practice Resources Tagged With: sydney

This page is an attempt to create a sampling of resources in the Restorative Practices field that are currently visible on the Internet and in Social Media that might in some way indicate, and eventually perhaps define, the conceptual and praxis territory of this field. The sample resources are collected together here, and in a well-specified process migrated into a database for the particular purpose of building up coverage of the field. The database is growing, and exists on a Vultr Server in Sydney Australia, and also captured regularly onto Amazon S3. There are currently (at 2 November 2019, 10am AEST) 362 records in the database, corresponding to 362 data items that can over time be presented in various ways. The current presentation is visible at:

'Sally Varnham, professor of law at the University of Technology Sydney, said there was emerging evidence that a “restorative justice” approach to youth crime was more effective than the “short, sharp shock” approach proposed by Senator Hanson. “Schools are introducing restorative practice also in Australia and New Zealand in an attempt to keep young people in schools, as there is such strong evidence of the ‘schoolyard (instead of) jail yard track’,” Dr Varnham said.'