Balanced and Restorative Justice Training Restorative Justice Foundations Module 1.
-
Upload
conrad-bumpas -
Category
Documents
-
view
227 -
download
0
Transcript of Balanced and Restorative Justice Training Restorative Justice Foundations Module 1.
BARJ
Agenda
Day One
1: Restorative Justice Foundations
2: Balanced and Restorative Approach
Day Two
3: Developing Cultural Awareness
4: Role of Victims
BARJ
Agenda
Day Two 5: Offenders 6: Community Engagement Day Three 7: Sample Practices 8: Taking Vision to Where We Live and Work 9: Action Planning. Closing Remarks and Evaluation
BARJ
Objectives
• Review agenda for this training event.• Build a set of group values from personal
values.• Relate group values to restorative justice
framework.• Define restorative justice in your own words.
BARJ
Restorative Justice …
• Is not a program.• Is a mission or philosophical framework.• Is a different way of responding to crime in
communities and criminal justice systems.
BARJ
Questions Currently Asked
• Who committed the crime?• What laws were broken?• How will we punish the offender?
Restorative Justice views the crime through a different lens.
BARJ
Van Ness Principles
1. If crime is more than lawbreaking, then:
• Justice requires that we work to heal victims, communities, and offenders who have been injured by crime.
BARJ
Van Ness Principles
2. If crime is more than lawbreaking, then:
• Victims, communities and offenders should have opportunities for active involvement in the justice process as early and as fully as possible.
BARJ
Van Ness Principles
3. If crime is more than lawbreaking, then:
• We must re-think the relative roles and responsibilities of the government and the community. Government is responsible for preserving a just order and the community for establishing a just peace.
BARJ
Howard Zehr’s Questions
• What is the harm?
• What needs to be done to repair the harm?
• Who is responsible for this repair?
BARJ
Howard Zehr’s Questions
• What is the harm?(Assessment)
• What needs to be done to repair the harm? (Case Plan)
• Who is responsible for this repair? (Roles and Responsibilities)
BARJ
Barry Stuart
“Crime should never be the sole or even primary
business of the state, if real differences are
sought in the well-being of individuals, families,
and communities. The structure, procedures, and
evidentiary rules of the formal criminal justice
process coupled with most justice officials’ lack of
knowledge and connection to (the parties)
affected by crime preclude the state from acting
alone to achieve transformative change.”
BARJ
Objectives
• Describe how restorative justice balances the three basic community expectations: community safety, accountability and competency development;
• Explain how balanced and restorative justice practices increase community safety;
• Describe how restorative accountability differs from the traditional concept of accountability in juvenile justice; and
• Describe restorative justice competency development.
BARJ
What is the Balanced Approach?
• Restorative justice = value framework or vision.
• The balanced approach = concrete application of restorative justice principles to practice.
• The balanced approach mission = a blueprint for putting restorative justice vision into practice in juvenile justice systems.
BARJ
The Balanced Approach Mission
Stakeholders
Victims
Juvenile offenders
Community
Goals
Accountability
Competency development
Communitysafety
Values
Offense occurs, obligation incurs
Offenders exit more capable
JJ must protect public from JJ youth
BARJ
Stakeholders Exercise
• Read the court report and your scenario.• Answer the Part I questions.• Meet with others to review Part I questions
and answer Part II.• Keep in mind the perspective of the person
whose information you read.
BARJ
Restorative Accountability Exercise
• Individually read the scenario.• Individually answer the questions.• Discuss the answers with the whole class.
BARJ
Accountability• Taking direct responsibility • Taking action to make amends • Allowing communities and victims to actively
determine sanctions• Encouraging the offender to feel an obligation
to the victims • Permitting the victims and the community to
set community standards for behavior and consequences
• Not using punishment • Not being responsible to abstract institution
BARJ
Competency • Is a skill that is valued by others • Is more than an absence of bad behavior• Is functioning in a meaningful, positive way• Leaves youth stronger in character, more
connected to community, remorseful, and empathic
• Is recognizing one’s potential • Makes caring individuals • Comes from opportunities to lead, belong,
mentor, contribute, form relationships, make choices, develop transferable skills
BARJ
Public Safety Increases When…• Offenders monitored & develop internal controls• Community prevents crime, resolves conflict and
reduces fear• Community justice is problem-oriented• Offender time under supervision is structured• Non-parent adults help monitor offenders• Partnerships develop for community police• JJ professionals are resources to schools, groups • Locked facilities only for youth unsuccessful at
being accountable to victims & communities• There is a continuum of alternative sanctions
BARJ
Restorative Case Plan Activity
• Read scenario.• With small group, develop 2 appropriate
supervision plan tasks for each goal (accountability, competency development, public safety).
• Be prepared to share your task with the group.
BARJ
Objectives• Define culture;• Acknowledge the widely diverse cultures in your
communities;• Explain how a lack of cultural competence
contributes to minority overrepresentation;• Reinforce how universally shared values cross
cultural boundaries; and • Demonstrate how the universal values of
restorative justice can help to develop cultural competence.
BARJ
Culture
• What is it?• How is it expressed?• How many cultures are in your community?• What cultures do you identify with?
BARJ
One County’s Minority Overrepresentation Issues
County (ages 11-17) 33%
58%
65%
69%
79%
Referred for Judicial Handling
Committed to Programs
Placed in Detention
Transferred to Adult Court
Of youth in the category, the % that are black
BARJ
Contributing Factors
From all four areas:
• Justice System• Socioeconomic Conditions• The Family• Educational System
BARJ
Potential for Improvement
• By increasing your own ability to work effectively with people who are different from you (cultural competence);
• By increasing cultural competence of the people with whom you work; and
• By increasing minority access and involvement at all levels
BARJ
Activity 3.3
Work in a medium-sized group to discuss:
• What practices in the current system may impact disproportionately on youth in communities of color, resulting in this overrepresentation?
• In what ways might practices based upon restorative justice values change that?
BARJ
Objectives
• Describe rights & responsibilities of victims of crime;
• Understand the physical, emotional psychological and financial impact of crime on victims;
• Understand immediate, short-term and long-term effects of crime on victims;
• Understand potential needs of victims; and• Describe a variety of ways to meet needs of
victims.
BARJ
Victims’ Needs Activity
• Read the scenario.• Answer the questions:
Describe your feelings about what has happened to you.
How do you think others will react to you? What do you want or need from law
enforcement and the justice system? How might this, change your behavior?
BARJ
• To have people recognize how much trauma they have been through; to express that and to have it expressed to them;
• To find out what kind of person could have done such a thing and why it was done to them;
• To hear that the offender is sincerely sorry or that someone is sorry on his or her behalf.
Needs/Wants of Victims
BARJ
• To be heard;
• To have their needs met;
• To participate in own healing;
• To participate in justice process;
• To receive assistance, compensation, information, services;
• To receive reparation from offender.
Needs/Wants of Victims
BARJ
• To give input at all points in the system;
• To help decide how the offender repairs the harm;
• To speak directly with the offender, if victim desires, to let them know how the crime affected their life, and to learn more about the offender and crime.
Needs/Wants of Victims
BARJ
Responsibilities of Victims
• To participate in the justice process, at some point;
• To report violations to the proper authorities;
• To support legal change to improve how justice is done in the future;
• To participate in community crime prevention activities;
• To participate in administration of justice as a witness, juror, and volunteer.
BARJ
Physical
• Trauma to body• Bruises• Broken bones• Cuts• Black eyes• Tremors/shaking• Fatigue• Ulcer
• Stomach pains/aches
• Loss of life• Pregnancy• Sexually transmitted
diseases
BARJ
Emotional
• Fear• Anger• Hopelessness• Helplessness• Insecurity• Sadness• Guilt
• Shame• Embarrassment• Confusion• Depression• Suicidal feelings• Vulnerability• Powerlessness
BARJ
Psychological
• Paranoia of others or of being alone
• Social isolation• Intimidation by
others• Crying outbursts• Inability to sleep
• Inability to feel clean and need to bathe or wash many times
• Depression• Wanting to die• Nightmares• Difficulty having
normal sexual relationship
BARJ
Financial
• Personal out-of pocket expenses• Loss of wages/inability to work/job loss• Insurance deductibles• Law enforcement costs• Prosecution/trial costs• Costs of jails, camps, institutions, prisons,
and community programs• Medical costs• Funeral costs
BARJ
Objectives
• Describe an approach to reintegration of juveniles based on relationships;
• Explain the changing role of offender from villain/victim to resource to their families and communities; and
• Build skills and connections based upon that changing role.
BARJ
Restorative Offender Outcomes
• Intervention goals directed at meeting the needs of the victim and community. Demonstrate competency. Document offender accountability. Show an increase in public safety.
BARJ
Victim Lens Dysfunctional Mentally ill Abused Damaged, diseased Ignored, neglected Victim of “systems” Learning disabled Sick, incapable, weak Cultural issues seen
as illness
Vulnerable, inevitably victimized over and over again
Will inevitably fall back into old patterns
Dependent –needing to heal –needing intensive therapy
Broken, but repairable Lost, without direction
BARJ
Villain Lens Evil, bad seed Predatory Without conscience Highly intelligent Selfish, arrogant,
manipulator Untrustworthy,
unreachable Therapy/treatment is
a waste of time Resistant and defiant
Dangerous Not interested in
changing Conduct disordered –
also paranoid, etc. Needs to be controlled
and contained Fundamentally
different Cultural dynamics
misinterpreted
BARJ
Resource Lens
Focus is on pro-social skills.
With assistance, youth and their families can become resources in and to their communities.
Differential balance and interplay of all three lenses predicts the best outcome.
Villain & victim lenses carry their own truths, but are inadequate to produce youth who leave the system with more pro-social skills than when they came to it.
BARJ
Values and Assumptions
Offenders have something of value to contribute.
Offenders who take responsibility for their behavior earn our assistance and recognition.
Offenders are capable of making up for their delinquent acts in most cases.
Offenders have an obligation to their direct victims and community.
Offenders need to become more competent individual members of the community.
BARJ
New Roles for Offenders
• Take responsibility for delinquent acts• Meet with victims and victimized community• Participate in designing a plan to repair harm
and to develop competencies • Service provider, not just service recipient• Citizen
BARJ
Objectives• Identify the personal relationship of the
participants to the community in which they work and live;
• Describe the relationship between a community and crime;
• Identify the primary roles of the community in restorative justice;
• Identify the elements of the community- based restorative project; and
• Determine the stage of relationship of a community partnership.
BARJ
Community of Place
• Crime generally affects those living in the surrounding geographic area.
• In those communities most impacted by crime, many residents do not have a lot of mobility.
• The process of raising children is heavily influenced by the place in which they are raised.
• For most people, the sense of safety is related to place.
BARJ
Results of State Involvement
• Professionalized conflict resolution
-Conflicts belong to the state
-Lawyer representation
-Victims isolated
-Offender and system focused
• Disempowered citizens-Isolated and depersonalized
-Decreased understanding of impact on others
-Making some conflicts invisible
BARJ
Mutual responsibility . . .
between individual and community
is the loom on which the fabric of community is woven
BARJ
What the Community Needs:The community needs and expects:• Crime to be sanctioned.• Juvenile offenders to be rehabilitated and
reintegrated.• The community to be protected.
The balanced approach mission providesgoals and objectives and priorities for practiceaimed at meeting these needs andexpectations.
BARJ
Cycle of Hope
Strongercommunity fabric
Crime
Prevention Process which
builds community
More connections
Sense ofhope
BARJ
Community Roles
• Policy development• Supporting victims• Determining the terms of accountability• Implementing the terms of accountability• Staying in relationship with offenders who are
in custody
BARJ
Stages of Relationships of Partnerships
1. Justice system operates separately from the community
2. Justice system provides information to the community about its relationships
3. Justice system provides information to the community and asks for information
4. Justice system asks for guidance in doing its work, recognizes need for help, and places more activities in the community
5. Justice system follows community leadership
BARJ
Objectives• Describe a wide variety of programmatic
applications of restorative justice principles, including: Community Service
Reparative Boards
Victim Impact Classes/Panels
Victim Offender Mediated Dialogue
Restitution
Circle Sentencing
Family, Group, or Community Conferencing
Letters of Apology
BARJ
Sample Practices
• Circle Sentencing
• Community Service Work
• Family Group Conferencing
• Community Reparation Boards
• Victim Impact Classes/Panels
• Victim/Offender Mediated Dialogue
BARJ
RJ Practices at a GlanceVictim Impact
Panels/Classes
Letters of Apology
Community Service
Restitution
Family Group Conferencing
Victim/OffenderMediation
Reparation Boards
CONFERENCING MODELS
Circle Sentencing
Balanced and Restorative Justice Training
Taking the Vision to Places Where We Live and Work
Module 8
BARJ
Objectives• Determine how restorative justice values can be
applied to other contexts;• Describe ways to operationalize these values in
other contexts;• Understand the need to manage change in an
organization.• Identify skills and strategies needed to help a
group move in more restorative directions; and• Explain how internal personal work supports
external change.
BARJ
Activity 8.1
• Brainstorm a list of settings where people interact with each other ….where person-to-person relationships are important.
• Review Restorative Justice values from Module 1 and relate them to the settings above.
BARJ
Activity 8.2
• What would a restorative _________ look like?
• What restorative practices or processes could be an effective part of how this group functions?
• What would be the first steps to take to help move a __________ toward a more restorative way of work?
• Who would be involved?
BARJ
Organizational Culture
Set of basic assumptions which members
of a group invent to solve the basic
problems of:
1) physical survival in the external environment (adaptation); and
2) social survival in the internal environment (internal integration).
Schien
BARJ
Culture allows employees, students, members to …
• Feel comfortable;• Establish meaningful relationships;• Understand what it takes to be successful;• Enjoy competence.
BARJ
Personal Introspection
As important as the organizational culture is, internal culture is even more vital.
Taking time to listen to one’s own mind and heart are very important.
BARJ
Change as an Evolution
“ It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
BARJ
Readiness for Change Audit
• Which stage is your organization ? Contentment
Renewal
Denial
Confusion
BARJ
Assumptions Underlying Change
• Change is a process, not an event
• Change is by individuals first
• Change is a highly personal experience
• Change entails multilevel development and growth
BARJ
Assumptions Underlying Change
• Change must be presented in concrete and practical terms.
• Change facilitators should approach individuals systematically.
• The real meaning of any change is the human component.
BARJ
Section Nine Purpose
• The purpose of this section is to assist participants to develop the first steps of a plan of action.
BARJ
Objectives
• Assess your local jurisdiction’s progress/readiness to move toward a restorative framework or model.
• Identify a priority goal for your local jurisdiction/organization and determine first actions toward achieving this goal.
• Select appropriate participants for the action planning process and describe the potential benefits/losses to each of the participants.
BARJ
Objectives
• Determine the impact of stakeholders on proposed changes in your jurisdiction and the extent to which these stakeholders will aid or impede the process.
• Implement first step actions within an agreed upon time frame, and continue action plan process with key stakeholders in your jurisdiction.
BARJ
Strategic Planning Overview
• System Analysis
• First Steps Action Planning
• Stakeholder Identification and Analysis