... in some states’ budgets. Under the current system, over 6.7 million adults or 3.1 percent of the adult population is behind bars, on probation, or on parole. Research shows that incarceration—instead of curbing crime—makes nonviolent offenders into violent criminals and is a revolving door in and out...

...Laura Bowman Salzsieder Members of a Victim Offender Education Group graduating class of 2010 in San Quentin prison pose with facilitators Rochelle Edwards (at front), Jaimee Karroll (at back), and Jack Dison (far left). ...

... is still warranted. It must be because the anger is no longer warranted. And what would provide a reason that makes it no longer warranted? Answers to this question diverge at the deepest level, but here is mine: the victim’s anger at the offender should be forsworn first and foremost because...

... environmental factors in generating crime. Mainstream restorative justice operates from a different model. It is based neither on a medical model of the pathology of the offender, nor on a Christian model of the offender’s sinful nature and dependence on a Higher Power. Instead, a model of mainstream...

.... The victim’s anger at the offender, says Professor Griswold, should be forsworn only when the offender takes certain steps that render continued anger inappropriate. This includes an acknowledgement of responsibility...

... not ungracious, the Dakota elders did not come up to me, shake my hand, and say how glad they were to see me there. How could they? Restorative justice does involve bringing together victims and offenders, but only after considerable preparation has been done on both sides. Forcing those harmed to come...

... in there?” Change M ust Becom e a Mark of M anhood psychopaths—and there aren’t many of This is a travesty and it satisfies no one, T h e d r e a m m o t i f i s p r o f o u n d l y those—most people are a mix of good and not the victim, not the offender, and not the powerful. It is the philosophers stone...

...: Continuum, 1996 that forgiveness is complete and we final­ perfect” forgiveness. By that phrase I This too is a deep conceptual difference ly see the offender, not as the perpetrator mean that all of the conditions we would between our outlooks. His is predicated of our wounds but as another...

... to crime that stresses individual choice and moral accountability without relying on draconian prison sentences. Kennedy’s operational framework is disarmingly simple: offenders are told to stop their misbehavior and, if they don’t, they and everyone in their gang...

.... She doesn’t hear the speaker, long-time restorative justice promoter Kay Pranis, but reads this in her information packet: “Restorative justice recognizes that crimes hurt everyone: victim, offender, and the commu­ nity, and it creates an obligation to make things right. The three principles...

... or anger. Then, say this out loud : You, my Eternal Friend (Yud Hey Vav Hey, Shechinah, Adonai, or whatever name you give to the God or the spiritual energy of the universe), the Power of Transformation and Healing in the Universe, witness now that I forgive anyone who has hurt, upset, or offended me...

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... that often accompanies painful conflict, in which many—if not all—parties see themselves as having been wronged, and may simultaneously see others as having offended them. As an imprisoned youth told me, “The only difference between me and the other guy is the time the cops showed up. If they’d have arrived...

... current policies, including many American Jews who think they are doing the Jewish people a favor or performing an act of loyalty, are actually Israel’s and the Jewish people’s worst enemies. They empower the racists and haters who run Israel today to continue policies that would rightly offend any human...

... of a detached individual against the state, with a model that fosters direct victim/offender encounters aimed at encouraging people who cause harm to address directly the suffering of their victims. The point is to bring intersubjective concreteness to the infliction of human suffering in a way that calls...

... community and the Muslim ban has struck a deep wound into its heart. I say its heart , even though immigrants are a small minority, because the order offends the very idea of a public college, which has been the portal for immigrants into American life throughout our history. And I say heart in the sense...

... the people should consent to having the fruits of would have a vote and a voting representative in Congress that I their labor taxed to support the common good. Absent that most could petition. fundamental civil right, violent overthrow of the offending politi­ Advisers to President Bush assert...

... concerned for the plight of Chris­ ther. When corporations or entire industries offend biblical values, tians living there today. Because of their witness and missionary we choose to invest our funds where God’s Creation can be sus­ work we are Christians today. They are not Christians because of tained...