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'In this plenary, Professor Ivo Aertsen from KU Leuven Institute of Criminology (Belgium) presented on "Re-shaping restorative justice to environmental crime".'
All victims of crime in England and Wales should have a legal right to have contact with offenders, MPs say.
'The university is raising £20 million in reparations, an act that has been widely regarded as the first from an United Kingdom institution as regards "restorative justice." This money, to be raised and spent in the next coming 20 years, will be for research purposes in collaboration with the University of West Indies. It will be used on setting up and operating the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research.'
'According to Lightoller, the school’s headteacher, Jon Fordham, described the session to them as “restorative justice”. He questioned “why we’d bothered to raise it and why we even had an issue with it in the first place”, Lightoller said. '
'The EFRJ will launch 6 new short videos, with interviews with some of our Board members responding to the question “Why does RJ matters?“. They will be uploaded on the EFRJ Vimeo channel and disseminated on our social media one each day of the RJ Week. The EFRJ will also publish a booklet on restorative environmental justice, similar to the thematic publication on arts and RJ in 2017. If you wish to contribute with an article, please do so before 15 September.'
'Restorative justice – where victim and offender meet to talk about the damage done and potential reparation – is not a new concept. Versions of it can be found in antiquity. Under the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, for example, victims were entitled to receive payment for certain property offences. In the modern era, the idea began to regain traction in New Zealand in the 1970s. “It started in Maori populations because young boys were disproportionately represented in prisons for all sorts of petty crimes,” says criminologist Estelle Zinsstag, a senior researcher for KU Leuven, currently based in Glasgow.'
'This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of Building Bridges, a programme of restorative meetings between victims and prisoners in seven European countries. The authors first describe how participation affected victims and offenders. Then, through case studies in three countries, they frame the social-ecological contexts of the programmes, discussing the organisational and socio-political factors that influenced how these programmes were delivered and what is necessary for them to be sustained.
Reflections and actual projects, including arts, activism, youth movement in the field of environmental justice, will be included in this new EFRJ publication. Send your article (or photo) by 15 September.
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Martin Howard's answer: Restorative Justice views the whole problem of crime and provides intelligent, sustainable responses to harm at the ground level - as well as providing a way to assess the systems we use to respond to harm. This gives birth to processes that give crime victims a voice in h...