http://www.rjcity.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-12-07.5998571453 Table 2 illustrates the vast disparity between the economic losses associated with four common crimes and the amount expended to incarcerate the offender No publisher dan 2008-09-04T18:04:41Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-12-07.6965785356 The Mediation and Restorative Justice Center, formerly the Blue Ridge Dispute Settlement Center, works daily to help increase the peace and safety in local neighborhoods, schools, and communities. When tensions build, Center mediators are available to spring into action and help parties work out disputes referred by the courts, schools, local agencies and the general public. The Mediation Center has been active in Watauga and Avery Counties for more than 12 years with the help of High Country United Way. No publisher dan 2007-12-07T12:05:40Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-12-07.2438671982 The alternative programs are starting to work. County employees are seeing fewer children go through the justice system and end up in cell blocks. "It hasn't been incredibly significant but it has made a difference,” Merriwether said. “I think they're seeing a very good response from that program from the community as well as the fact that those juveniles are not coming back." No publisher dan 2007-12-07T11:57:28Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-11-30.6249786767 A 22-year-old Luck man has been ordered to pay yearly visits to the grave of the man he ran over with a van and killed in September of 2006 as part of a sentence handed down Nov. 8. Derek Mosay will spend four years in state prison and four years under extended supervision in accordance with a sentence handed down by Judge Molly GaleWyrick. No publisher dan 2007-12-06T00:34:57Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-11-30.9886094876 The National Police Agency plans to introduce a restorative justice system for minor offenses involving juveniles, under which there will be provision for direct dialogue between offenders and victims. It is hoped that the system will prove effective in preventing juveniles from becoming repeat offenders. No publisher dan 2007-12-06T00:34:57Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-11-06.4958726885 Youths who carry out minor crimes could be forced to face their victims to make amends. If ministers give the go ahead, Devon and Cornwall police aims to run a pilot scheme administering restorative justice on youths who commit low-level crimes instead of prosecuting them. No publisher dan 2007-12-06T00:34:57Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-11-06.6271334513 There's a growing social movement that -- if fully implemented -- will dramatically change the way we deal with crime in this country. It's called "Restorative Justice." The present system of punitive justice has resulted in higher rates of recidivism and more prisons. It's clearly not working. No publisher dan 2007-11-06T17:39:39Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-11-06.4312116163 Nine deputies with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department underwent four days of intensive training in “restorative justice,” an alternative to the traditional “catch ’em, bail ’em, and jail ’em” approach to criminal justice. No publisher dan 2007-11-06T17:02:53Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-11-06.0770099361 “They will be longed for always,” the Web site said, and I believe it, imagining the hole in the lives of those who loved the three men Jeanette Sliwinski killed. I also hear the unbearable sorrow in these words from a newspaper account: “From her jail hospital bed, Sliwinski has begged for forgiveness.” No publisher dan 2007-11-06T17:00:25Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-10-01.3084521353 What does this responsibility mean? in my opinion, an opinion strongly informed by restorative justice, it means he needs to respond. No publisher dan 2007-10-01T15:11:05Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-and-prisons/blogentry.2007-10-01.9540047129 A brief description of restorative justice projects operating in Missouri prisons. No publisher dan 2007-10-01T15:11:42Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-10-01.0593352990 The Department of the Interior and Local Government has ordered the release of 114 children-in-conflict-with-the-law in compliance with the latest directive of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for prison authorities to free all juvenile offenders still languishing in jails. No publisher dan 2007-10-01T14:58:03Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-09-28.3316842159 A disturbing facet of domestic abuse has emerged from a new study of teenagers living in Boston's poorest neighborhoods.... The problem involves abusive male partners sabotaging birth control as a means of wielding power over their teenage girlfriends. No publisher dan 2007-09-28T13:55:42Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-09-28.8311882325 The world apostles of peace meeting in Nairobi have at one point been victims of violence. All the 150 civilian peacekeepers, among them a Nobel Peace Laureate, loathe revenge. No publisher dan 2007-09-28T12:05:59Z Blog Entry http://www.rjcity.org/the-project/groups/rj-today/blogentry.2007-09-27.7851575680 The city police will soon set up victim support cells at local police stations as part of the Government’s community-based policing initiative, Janamaithri Suraksha Project (JSP). No publisher dan 2007-09-27T13:31:43Z Blog Entry