Take a listen. Hear victim of violent crime and survivor Cheryl Ward Kaiser. She talks about why she supports restorative justice and how she chose to be in contact with the offenders who killed her husband and raped her daughter.
Don’t think restorative justice belongs in prison? Think again. Some of the best in-prison restoraive justice programs are operating today whether you know it or not.
Do victims of crime really want restorative justice? Read on. Lisa Rea’s article on speaking at a law school on restorative justice. Do we really know what victims want after they are injured by crime? http://www.restorativejustice.
I am greatly encouraged, as I always am, when I meet a victim of violent crime who has found restorative justice. Ms. Therese Bartholomew is one of those crime victims. I just read her book, “Coffee Shop God” which she sent me a few days ago.
http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/violent-juveniles-serving-life-without-parole-when-victims-of-crime-disagree Can crime victims support restorative justice yet hold differing positions on juveniles serving life without parole ? Yes. Read on.
When crime victims speak about the effect violent crime has had on their lives you have to listen.
INTERVIEW with Dan Van Ness Dan Van Ness is Executive Director of the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation, (www.restorativejusticeonline.org), a programme of Prison Fellowship International, PFI, (www.pfi.org),based in Virginia (USA).
What do the following news stories have in common? The Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme responsible for the biggest corporate securities fraud in history, the Austrian rape and murder case of Josef Fritzi whose daughter was enslaved for 24 years, and