Restorative Discovery Items

Prof Lawrence Sherman, one of the world’s leading experts in restorative justice, said the meeting between Ghey and Sutton was “extraordinarily unusual”. He said: “I’ve never heard of anything like that before. In 30 years, I have never heard a victim or survivor of crime offering through the media to have a meeting – and for that offer to be accepted so quickly. The fact they may even partner on these issues is even more remarkable.”

Mother of murder victim Brianna Ghey and mother of her killer meet and decide to campaign together on dangers of mobile phones

One specific focus of the new policy is developing students' abilities to behave better in the future rather than using temporary solutions such as suspensions.

"Restorative justice shifts the focus of student discipline from strictly punishing the student to helping the student reflect, learn and repair," Mitchell said.

Washington Elementary School implemented a new anti-bullying measure called

https://www.academia.edu/70240636/Urban_design_guidelines_for_places_wit...

State of Australian Cities Conference 2015
Urban design guidelines for places with restorative values

Abstract: This paper evolved from a case study of three Gold Coast beach precincts that examined the complex relationships between the urban design attributes and spatial arrangement of beach precincts and their effect on public access to activity, amenity and facility.

Australian and overseas urban design guidelines were examined along with the requirements of restorative places.

The focus of the scrutiny of the guidelines was to identify the nature of urban design principles that enhance egalitarian, walkable access to the restorative values found in beach precincts.

The intended goal was to produce urban design guidelines for walkable places with restorative values, where their design, planning and governance would reduce conflict amongst different groups.

This paper proposes an urban design model for the governance of accessibility to the inviting, secure and comfortable places associated with the values found in restorative environments. This model is a synthesis of the requirements of restorative environments and the urban design principles developed in
the course of the research.

The concept of restorative justice is an evolving notion that is still developing in the Indian judicial system. Practices of restorative justice aims to redress the dehumanisation that individuals in the traditional criminal justice system endure. This research examines the evolution of restorative justice concepts in the Indian judicial system, emphasising its ideological basis in respect of primary elements and potential impact, on both the victims and offenders Further, the research discusses the ways in which restorative justice incorporates the victim, the offender, and the community in an effort to repair the suffering created by criminal behaviour.

The concept of restorative justice is an evolving notion that is still developing in the Indian judicial system. Practices of restorative justice aims to redress the dehumanisation that individ...

Restorative Practices (RP) provide a powerful framework for leadership, conflict management, and enhancing leadership competencies. Grounded in the principles of mindfulness and inclusion, RP facilitates the building and maintenance of positive relationships within organizations. This holistic approach is crucial for fostering healthy supervisory relationships and enhancing the capacity for positive interactions, which is essential in navigating the complexities of workplace environments where conflict is inevitable.

Restorative Practices (RP) provide a powerful framework for leadership, conflict management, and enhancing leadership competencies. Grounded in the principles of mindfulness and inclusion, RP facilitates the building and maintenance of positive relationships within organizations. This holistic appro...

Recent book by John Braithwaite

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Argues for the importance of simple, stable institutions and regulatory bodies to contain complex catastrophes

Presents a positive 'politics of hope'

Explores contemporary global issues

Includes a section:
Imagining Restorative Diplomacy

Abstract
Restorative diplomacy outperforms realism at preventing war, climate change, financial crises, pandemics, and at accomplishing national interest objectives. Peacebuilding Compared finds narratives of the broken promise have been impediments to peace in 41 out of 73 armed conflicts. Restorative diplomacy requires promise-keeping that learns from American Indigenous wisdom on ritualizing peace agreements, with regular commemorations at which statecraft speaks from the heart, apologizes, forgives, ritualizes collective memory, and builds new commitments atop growing architectures of peace. Learn restorative diplomacy lessons from the Marshall Plan. Put deposits, financial and emotional, in the banks of old adversaries. Learn restorative diplomacy lessons from South African spymaster Niël Barnard. South African nuclear weapons destruction, Africa as a nuclear weapons-free continent, and Apartheid abolition illustrate the possibilities of restorative diplomacy.

This open-access book argues for the importance of simple, stable institutions and regulatory bodies to contain complex, global catastrophes.

Australia: The ACT Government is increasing access to restorative justice with additional funding from the Confiscated Assets Trust (CAT) and the 2024-25 ACT Budget.

This funding will allow for extra resources to reduce waiting times for restorative justice, and continued progress to enhance the Restorative Justice Scheme and increase accessibility for victim-survivors of sexual violence.

Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury said improved access to restorative justice would provide better outcomes for more victim-survivors in the ACT justice system.

The ACT Government is increasing access to restorative justice with additional funding from the Confiscated Assets Trust (CAT) and the 2024-25 ACT Budget.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-26/compass-what-is-restorative-justi...

'Restorative justice brings together perpetrators of crime and victims — but not everybody is ready to meet.'

'Restorative justice was first introduced to the criminal justice system in Australia in the 1990s.

Choosing to come eye to eye with the person who has devastated your life is a big decision.

"It's important to realise that it's not just a one-off meeting that occurs often," Professor Forsyth says.

The process can take months, sometimes years, and involves a lot of emotional hard work.'

Restorative justice programs can bring healing to victims' families and perpetrators. But it's not for everyone.

Maps for restorative justice

Restorative mapping is an important part of the Living Black Atlas: It helps bring visibility to Black experiences that have been marginalized or forgotten.

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Restoring a sense of place

An important idea behind restorative mapping is the act of returning something to a former owner or condition. This connects with the broader restorative justice movement that seeks to address historic wrongs by documenting past and present injustices through perspectives that are often ignored or forgotten.

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/black-communities-mapping

The CBSCM map is not a conventional paper map. While it includes many things you would find in such a map, such as road networks and political boundaries, the map also includes links to fiction writing and the Chicago Renaissance, art and music, as well as expressions of food, family life, education and politics that document a hidden history of Black life in the city.

Historian Carter Woodson sought not to just celebrate prominent Black historical figures but to transform how white America saw and valued all African Americans.

'Some advocate for training SROs to be more restorative; however, SROs have shown that training on how to interact with students as mentors does not change their racist policing behaviors.

Before Minneapolis Public Schools terminated their contract with the MPD, they had been unsuccessfully trying to transform the role of their SROs from “enforcer” to “mentor” and still police officers were disproportionately “interacted with” black students. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) In 2016, the Police Accountability Task Force released a report that found systemic and institutionalized racism in all areas of the Chicago Police Department.

The task force concluded that “CPD’s own data and other information strongly suggests that CPD’s response to the violence is not sufficiently imbued with Constitutional policing tactics and is also comparatively void of actual procedural and restorative justice in the day-to-day encounters between the police and citizens.”'

'Restorative practices, and relationship management more broadly, can be part of broader exercise of consciously redesigning for a more conflict resilient workplace. Again, this approach is based on foundational principles of: causing no further harm, working with those involved, and seeking to set relations right.

A “restorative” approach asks a different set of questions.'

'Myth 3: Restorative justice requires forgiveness and becoming friends with the offender.

Fact: The victim in a restorative program is not under any pressure or compulsion to forgive or reconcile with the offender. RJ simple engineers the process that helps the victim get answers to their toughest questions'

Although the place of forgiveness and reconciliation cannot be denied in several restorative processes, it is not the primary goal of any restorative process. RJ has come under so much heat because people often argue that any process that encourages becoming friends with an assailant should be discouraged.

However, RJ is a voluntary process where victims move at their pace and can decide whether or not to forgive the offender or become friends with them, and no restorative process forces reconciliation and forgiveness on the parties.

Restorative Practice is about creating and nurturing meaningful and just relationships. Rooted in Indigenous traditions and thinking, Restorative Practice helps us recognise our inherent connections to one another and our communities. Good quality relationships between students, teachers, school leadership and other staff humanise the classroom and help create an effective learning environment. Restorative Practice is a way of being, thinking, interacting, teaching and learning – with relationships at the centre of all we do, every day.

The website for those curious about Restorative Practice in Australian schools

Restorative practice is a strategy that seeks to repair relationships that have been damaged, including those damaged through bullying. It does this by bringing about a sense of remorse and restorative action on the part of the offender and forgiveness by the victim.

Restorative practice seeks to repair relationships that have been damaged through bullying.

Restorative Justice has been around in one way or another for centuries. But Restorative Justice as we know it today is a relatively new practice, starting out in its modernised form in the 1970s. There are 5 long-standing principles of Restorative Justice/restorative practice:

Relationship
Respect
Responsibility
Repair
Reintegration

There are 5 long-standing principles of Restorative Justice/restorative practice.

Restorative processes are valuable in all of those situations where members of a community, whose ongoing relationships are underpinned by some shared concern, regularly need to build, maintain, deepen / strengthen, or restore / re-set relations.

This sort of relationship management is essential in workplaces.

Restorative practices are consistent with emerging best practice approaches in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations. Restorative practices help organisations move beyond an over-reliance on bureaucratic “grievance procedure” systems.

Join us for an enlightening presentation by JCU Lecturer, Filitsa Kounias, as she sheds light on the profound potential of Restorative Justice to revolutionise our society. This presentation will delve into Restorative Justice principles and practices as they come to life within the captivating realm of Youth Justice. Filitsa will explore the ability of Restorative Justice to foster empathy, repair harm and rebuild relationships. By prioritising dialogue, healing and accountability over punitive measures, restorative justice presents a unique approach that empowers individuals and communities to collectively address conflicts and injustices. Don't miss the chance to be part of this seminar and look at this fascinating approach to achieving justice.

Presentation replay

Monday 28 August 2023, 3.00pm - 4.00pmWhere: Bld 028, Room 002, JCU Townsville, Bebegu Yumba Campus, Douglas Join us for an enlightening presentation by JCU Lecturer, Filitsa Kounias, as she sheds light on the profound potential of Restorative Justice to revolutionise our society. This presentation....

Anna – who works as a mental health researcher – is among the clients and carers from Victoria’s public mental health system calling for the Andrew’s government to initiate a restorative justice process to acknowledge harms and human rights breaches in the sector.

A report commissioned by the state’s health department has recommended that the government formally apologise for harms caused by the system, along with a truth-telling process to hear and document those it says are unresolved.

It points to a variety of mistreatment in the mental health system such as the use of practices like seclusion and restraint and making the loved ones of clients feel invisible.

‘I chewed my way through the restraints in front of two security guards who were laughing at me’, one woman says

They've been married for 45 years and have shared careers in education, but now Vic and Liz O'Callaghan have one more thing in common.

The Springwood residents were both awarded Medals of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2024 Australia Day Honours.

Mr O'Callaghan received his honour for service to restorative practices while Mrs O'Callaghan was recognised for service to education.

They've been married for 45 years and have shared careers in education, but now Vic and Liz O'Callaghan...

Reynol's dissertation examines the implementation of restorative justice in the context of Taiwanese juvenile justice.

Given the relational nature of restorative justice, his findings are based on participant observation and interviews with a wide range of respondents, including people responsible, people harmed, their supporters, and justice practitioners such as judges and facilitators. Theoretically informed by Reintegrative Shaming Theory, Transformative Mediation Studies and Confucian Relationalism Studies, this research reveals a form of shame transformation and a pluralistic justice system.

Reynol's dissertation examines the implementation of restorative justice in the context of Taiwanese juvenile justice.

Restorative processes are valuable in all of those situations where members of a community, whose ongoing relationships are underpinned by some shared concern, regularly need to build, maintain, deepen / strengthen, or restore / re-set relations.

This sort of relationship management is essential in workplaces.

Restorative practices are consistent with emerging best practice approaches in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations. Restorative practices help organisations move beyond an over-reliance on bureaucratic “grievance procedure” systems.

Australian Association for Restorative Justice | AARJ

https://gazette.education.govt.nz/notices/1HAfX0-live-online-elevate-you...

This Safe for Children live online course is ideal for school leaders, teachers, teacher aides, OSCAR staff, recreation staff, teacher support staff, and alternative education teachers. 

This initiative aims to transform Newcastle into a restorative city by building social cohesion and healthy communities. Newcastle has pockets of disadvantage in relation to unemployment, income, education, housing, child welfare, and criminal justice.

The School of Law and Justice is initiating change by working with a growing network of community partners to support the city’s proposed social and cultural transformation.

In the criminal justice system, it is anticipated that there will be less offending, decreased recidivism, increased rehabilitation of offenders, and greater victim and offender satisfaction with the process.

Additionally, members of the community will be provided with skills to effectively build relationships and resolve disputes, which aim to result in greater wellbeing, social coherence, and improved educational and social outcomes. Workplaces and organisations will have improved communication skills, improved productivity, and strengthened relationships.

As a result, Newcastle will become a happier and safer city, where residents can address harm and inappropriate behaviour.

Adam Voigt has been teaching and leading schools in some of Australia’s most challenging locations for more than twenty-five years. He has a history of transforming student lives and teacher practice by fostering school cultures that are strong, relational and hallmarked by stakeholder trust.

More than ever, we need inspired and inspiring teachers and school leaders. Yet their status and morale have never been lower.

Restoring the pride, focus and community perception of our educators is now a national imperative that involves cultivating a positive account of teaching expertise in every Australian school.

The future of a respected teaching workforce lies in a brave, new frontier of work. It starts with applying the principles of Restorative Practices to the contemporary school context – creatively and practically.

'Connecting individuals building restorative communities on campuses around the world. Restorative universities care about community. That means respectful relationships come first. We work to build these respectful communities in our student body, residence halls, faculty and staff.'