Restorative Justice. With the aim of repairing harm, rebuilding trust, and building community, you may be asked to participate in the following measures: provide an apology, restitution, mediation, community service, victimless workshop, and restorative workshop. If you are unable to complete this requirement, another consequence will be assigned.
Restorative Justice. Participation in a discussion by a trained facilitator with any persons or department harmed development of a shared agreement of how to correct the hard. Unlike other sanctions, all participants must voluntarily agree to participate in the restorative process. Restorative practices may not be available to Recognized Student Organizations responding to or being found responsible for any physical sexual misconduct.
Restorative Justice. This process of storytelling and dialogue enables people to realise that identity is multi-dimensional and open rather than singular and closed. Identity is derived from personal characteristics, family, place, gender, nationality, religion and culture. But identity is also a basis from which one makes moral choices, enters into to commitments and takes a stand. It is a product of both structure and agency. To deal with fears of difference people need to respect the equal worth of all human beings, to engage in rigorous critical thinking and to assume a curious and empathetic imagination. Community can be a communicative activity the purpose of which is to establish connection and to live interdependently. Community is something you do rather than something you passively belong to. Building community requires shifting the conversation from problems, fears and retribution to one of possibility, generosity and restoration. Security is ultimately derived from relationships; people sharing norms and values, looking out for each other’s wellbeing and coming together to address problems and to create new possibilities. This is a dynamic form of security which neither the state nor the market can ever deliver. Restorative processes can create a temporary sense of community that is hospitable to parties in conflict. Such a community requires a host who enables the parties to communicate, understand each other and make agreements across frontiers and across time through telling and listening to each other’s narratives. These processes must be based upon deep respect. This manual provides guidance on how to create this sense of community, which we define as: Community is an active and reflexive communicative practice, which enable people to live equitably in interdependence with an increasingly diverse range of others. The Context and Development of Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland Xxx Xxxx and Xxxxxx (2010:46) distinguish the role of government and that of the community in relation to justice. They argue that government is responsible for preserving a just order whereas community is responsible for establishing a just peace. Order can be measured in the achievement of instrumental goals measurable by crime statistics. Peace is less tangible; it is derived from the quality of relationships between people living in community and from how they set about resolving conflicts and breaches of norms. Community restorative justice developed out of the violent conflic...
Restorative Justice. In addition to both Prosecution and out of court disposals, restorative justice techniques can run alongside any of the above disposals. Restorative justice brings those harmed by a crime or conflict and those responsible for causing the harm into communication, enabling everyone affected by the incident the chance to play a part in repairing the harm and to find a positive way forward. This communication can take various forms, including a face-to-face restorative justice conference or indirect restorative justice (letter, a video message or the use of the facilitator as a ‘go between’). Restorative Justice Services are provided by an accredited service provider, which are normally commissioned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. Out of court disposals tackle low-level crime and can represent a proportionate and effective response to first time offending that can focus on the needs of the victim. They mean that: • More time can be spent tackling serious and complexcrime; • There is a means of providing reparation and a prompt resolution forvictims, ensuring swift and streamlined justice is secured; • There is opportunity for offenders to be directed into rehabilitative or educational services to tackle the causes of offending behaviour reducing the likelihood of re- offending; • An offender can be sanctioned by means of a financial penalty or unpaid work. Out of court disposals are not intended for serious, persistent or contested cases where Court would be the right forum for deliberation and adjudication. However, in rare instances it may not be in the public interest to prosecute an offender for what appears to be a serious or persistent offence. An Out of Court disposal should be considered on the facts of the case and are only suitable when the assessment of the circumstances is that a case should not proceed to court.
Restorative Justice. Very much a part of our approach to bullying and to discipline in general is the restorative justice model for managing student behavior. Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender. Victims take an active role in the process, while offenders are encouraged to take responsibility for their actions. In addition, it provides help for the offender in order to avoid future offenses. Research shows that restorative justice that fosters dialogue between victim and offender shows the highest rates of victim satisfaction and offender accountability. Restorative Justice is an approach that has been adopted by many schools in many countries and is an approach that is endorsed by the local social services here in South Africa as a method for the better management of student behavior. SCHOOL COUNCIL One of the responsibilities of the AISCT School Council is to assist and advise the Head of School and the board in relation to the creation and implementation of policy and the management of the school. The School Council consists of both elected and selected members, who are generally parents of students at the school. SCHOOL FEES School fees, which consist of tuition fees and a capital fee, are payable before a student commences classes. School fees are payable in advance for the entire school year. Parents may request a semester payment plan. A full one term’s notice is required for any subsequent school fees refund. Students who withdraw during the course of a semester are not entitled to any refund of that semester. No payment period smaller than a semester will be approved except in extraordinary cases. In addition to tuition fees, a capital fee must be paid for each student in K1-Grade 12. While tuition fees provide for the school’s operating budget (teacher salaries, books, and materials), the capital fee is the basis for the capital budget of the school, which finances the lease of the property, the maintenance of our campus, and the annual rental, renovation, and maintenance of the school buildings. The capital fee is paid if the student attends for any part of the school year and paid for the first four years of attendance at AISCT. The capital fee is non-refundable. Special requests regarding the payment of school fees, including requests for financial aid or concessions, must be made in writ...
Restorative Justice. Establish and maintain a restorative justice program serving juvenile offenders in Taos County. Performance Measures: Outputs:
Restorative Justice. At any point during the investigation, discipline, or grievance process, the Chief may offer or union may propose reduced punishment if employee agrees to participate in restorative justice. Restorative Justice is a system of justice that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large. Restorative justice may include, but not limited to, meeting with complainant, Department sponsored community service, or training.
Restorative Justice. When a student has made poor choices leading to sanctions, it is sometimes both important and helpful to ensure some form of restorative actions are undertaken to “put things right”. This may simply be a restorative conversation in which the student has the opportunity to apologise and clear the air for a fresh start. For serious incidents of graffiti or vandalism, students may be required to carry out community service assisting the site team with cleaning of graffiti or other maintenance tasks. Students may also be required to pay for repairs, in partnership with parents/carers who will be asked to ensure that the funding for this is earned by the student at home. For incidents of dropping litter or being rude to staff on duty, students may be required to undertake litter duty or help with other tasks / events.
Restorative Justice. 5. Role play
Restorative Justice. While consociationalism addresses political reconciliation through an institutional framework, society must also find ways to move on from political violence and come to trust one another as I argue in chapter 2. Anger, created by violence, erodes trust and can lead to retributive acts by citizens. Citizens’ retribution is an attempt for justice where the perpetrator is punished for the crimes they have committed. In a new state created by violence, retribution is aimed at those political actors who used violence for political aims. Retribution can be conducted through violence, imprisonment, economic punishments or other types of sanctions. The problem with retributive justice is that it involves a form of punishment that, rather than promoting trust, can escalate hostilities between groups. If the punishment is violence, such as executions or other physical harm, this can create a cycle of violence where groups respond to each other’s violence 155 Ibid., 228 with more violence. Each group believes the other group deserves to be punished for previous acts of violence, thus creating a retributive cycle with escalating acts of violence.156 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx explains that this cycle of violence can be broken by forgiveness and reconciliation. By forgiveness, Xxxxxx means a process that is not itself conditions of violence. Whereas retribution responds in kind with violence, forgiveness marks an unanticipated response, “freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.”157 As such, it serves as a new act, contrary to the very anticipated response of violence with violence.158 To create a unified democratic society, the state must institutionalize justice according to forgiveness and reconciliation that restrain acts of retribution where the populace feels that justice is absent.159 Social relations must be restored through institutions for democracy to continue. Otherwise conflicts between groups will endure preventing groups from cooperating in a democratic framework. A transitional and restorative justice that restores relationships while also providing justice for victims of political violence is necessary to create a democratic society and prevent acts of retribution. Transitional justice is the act of giving justice for victims of political crimes when the state is to attempting reestablish a peaceful society.160 Various groups during political transition have opposing interests. The outgoing regime and its supporters want ...
