Search results for category: Restorative SystemsThe 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.
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.
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.
What does this responsibility mean? in my opinion, an opinion strongly informed by restorative justice, it means he needs to respond.
Afghanistan's latest National Human Development Report has called for a new and hybrid justice system that will bring together modern formal justice systems and the local traditional shuras and jirgas that have functioned as dispute-resolution mechanisms.
A woman who killed her common-law husband continues to fight for a sentencing circle, despite the opposition of the victim's family.
Since 1996, South Canterbury's Project Turnaround has been one of the success stories for restorative justice around the country, changing lives and healing wounds. But a cloud is looming on the horizon.
Wakefield’s young offenders will help raise money for Macmillan Cancer Research by taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning this month.
Washburn University School of Law, the editors of the Washburn Law Journal and the Symposium Planning Committee are pleased to host Humanizing Legal Education, a symposium/conference, October 19-21, 2007.
A new report has found a New South Wales Government pilot program has failed in one of its main aims to divert young non-violent offenders from jail.
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