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.... In this exercise, offenders meet with “surrogate” victims—real victims, but of harm caused by other offenders. I was one of three victims serving a surrogate role. Before Mack spoke, I had just finished explaining how childhood sexual abuse had stunted my emotional development. I talked about the years I had spent...

... Pazahiyayewin, who endured the march at age twenty-six with her four children and elderly mother, at the same time that her husband was sentenced by a military tribunal to death by hanging. Is restorative justice able to address harms on the scale of genocide and white supremacy? Reuben Wambdi Kitto Jr...

... to violence—whether sexual assault or other kinds—that does not rely on the courts, police, or prisons. We are eager to share a description of our work in Philly with the hope that it will encourage others to join in the growing movement to create alternative approaches to addressing harm...

... justice process as “fair,” and with some encouragement, many admitted when they did something wrong. Suspensions fell by 87 percent. Students continued to embrace these practices in high school: their principal noticed that Cole students actually accepted responsibility when they committed harm...

...Vancouver Coastal Health At Insite, a legal injection site in Vancouver, clients inject their own drugs under the supervision of nurses. Harm reduction programs such as these can decrease overdoses, reduce the spread of disease associated with unclean needle use, and connect drug users to mental...

... we have conflict, or we move out of the “bad” neighborhood. We do all of this without looking at the systemic structure that is involved in the problem behavior. We take these actions without looking at our own part in the dysfunction. And we pretend that this solution does no harm to us...

.... No restorative justice activist thinks for a moment that restorative justice is about restoring some harmful status quo. But clearly some transformative justice and abolitionist activists mistrust the restorative justice world and have formed negative judgments about it that I believe they would revise upon...

..., the criminal justice system is undergirded by a thirty-year era of “get tough” policies that have bred high rates of recidivism, a focus on punishing lawbreaking rather than attending to the harm experienced by crime victims, and ever-increasing expenditures that exceed amounts spent on education and health...

... the heads with plastic hammers that make an unpleasant noise. I found this Fcustom distressing and obnoxious even before my eyes had been opened to the harm done by Zionism. I now find it emblematic of that double harm, done to Others and to ourselves, as Jews, by adopting the ways o f violence...

... of shame about harming, the feeling of monstrousness, the feeling of having blood on one’s hands, and the sense of being contaminated; all are part of the moral trauma. As we have seen in places like Rwanda and South Africa, this trauma is transformed in the light of the other’s acceptance or forgiveness...

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..., and many community members relieved and grateful. Multiply the criminal justice cost many times for adults locked away for years. Evan Bissell ( theknottedline.us ) Evan Bissell (theknottedline.us) But the rub is, punishment is nowhere seen in this process—unless, when you have harmed someone...

... the same socially separated image that is used to interpret our civil obligations to one another, is mainly about not intruding on or causing harm to each other’s separate existences, about protecting ourselves from each other. In the operating room, we have a right not to be harmed by improper medical...

... animal kin. My dinner companions are generally those who are well attuned to the harmful ideologies of racism, sexism, and classism; they are not afraid to call out these issues when they see them. Why, then, is it so hard to broach the issue of carnism at the table? The social justice community...

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