Restorative justice—which brings together crime victims, offenders and community members to address the impact of crime while developing solutions for lowering crime statistics—is the subject of an ...

Restorative justice conferencing is a process to identify, address, and to the extent possible offer repair and transformation harm that has occurred to the impacted party, the community in which the ...

RJUW offers training in circle keeping practices as well as for the role of Community Member Volunteer. We are a community of practitioners that convenes for ongoing training, relationship building, ...

Interesting as an academic text, Fox's work is also thought-provoking and challenging for the practitioner, writes John Whitfield. The author provides us with a short history of restorative justice as ...

Restorative Justice helps to address the relationship between victims, offenders and the community in a way that repairs the impacts of an incident, holds the offender accountable for their actions ...

Author, professor, and trailblazing activist bell hooks once said: “To build community requires vigilant awareness… rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of community.” ...

A recent report which details the skyrocketing societal and financial costs of rising crime rates in Colorado, coupled with a dismal 50% recidivism rate, which is one of the worst in the country, have ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office was awarded funding this month from the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to expand its Emerging Adult Program. The EAP is a ...

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.

As the prime sponsor of most of Colorado’s restorative justice legislation, I thank Carol McKinley for her Dec. 20 article in The Denver Gazette. She accurately highlighted the astounding 1% ...

When a crime occurs, it sets in motion potential tragic consequences that are often unseen by the American justice system. However, this "benign neglect" may lead to traumatic consequences for the ...

Restorative justice is a key component to the government's approach to tackling youth crime. Since 1 April 2002 in England and Wales, under the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, the courts ...