Comments on: Barriers to accountability http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2009/08/22/barriers-to-accountability/ Dr. Howard Zehr, Professor of Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite University\'s graduate Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, discusses restorative justice issues, reflects on other issues from a restorative justice perspective and dialogues with others around justice issues from a restorative perspective. Thu, 16 May 2013 08:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Weber Genesis E 320 Grill http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2009/08/22/barriers-to-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-5031 Weber Genesis E 320 Grill Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:15:32 +0000 http://emu.edu/blog/restorative-justice/?p=303#comment-5031 <strong>What A Wonderful Blog Post...</strong> [..] I saw this really great post today and I wanted to link to it. [..]... What A Wonderful Blog Post…

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]]> By: Rocket http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2009/08/22/barriers-to-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-2553 Rocket Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:25:44 +0000 http://emu.edu/blog/restorative-justice/?p=303#comment-2553 This is an angle of accountability that deserves more thought. This is an angle of accountability that deserves more thought.

]]> By: Shane Dillon http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2009/08/22/barriers-to-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-840 Shane Dillon Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:22:06 +0000 http://emu.edu/blog/restorative-justice/?p=303#comment-840 What a great insight into the work that you so highly value. I am beginning a second career as a Youth justice conference convenor, a career steeped heavily in restorative justice, and I find your work has been invaluable to me up to this point. Restorative justice is so much more than the "lock em up and throw away the key" mentality that contemporary society and our elected officials sold fast to. An ideal that speaks of compassion, empathy and of having an understanding for the impact felt by both members of the criminal event. As someone who is new to this field, I sense a communal shift towards this style of criminal justice response, a shift, while glacial, that is helping to bring society to a place where we will see less youth crime and ultimately a smaller criminal population. What a great insight into the work that you so highly value. I am beginning a second career as a Youth justice conference convenor, a career steeped heavily in restorative justice, and I find your work has been invaluable to me up to this point.

Restorative justice is so much more than the “lock em up and throw away the key” mentality that contemporary society and our elected officials sold fast to. An ideal that speaks of compassion, empathy and of having an understanding for the impact felt by both members of the criminal event. As someone who is new to this field, I sense a communal shift towards this style of criminal justice response, a shift, while glacial, that is helping to bring society to a place where we will see less youth crime and ultimately a smaller criminal population.

]]> By: Margot Van Sluytman http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2009/08/22/barriers-to-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-828 Margot Van Sluytman Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:37:31 +0000 http://emu.edu/blog/restorative-justice/?p=303#comment-828 Academic writing, infused with soul, is truly hope-filled. This is a rich article. As an individual who has met the man who murdered her father, twenty-nine years later, I value the fact that both the one/s on caused harm and the one/s who have the harm caused can have 'passionate objectivity' in view of what accountability means for healing and hope, even where painful paradox lives, empathy can find voice. Sincerely, Margot Van Sluytman Academic writing, infused with soul, is truly hope-filled. This is a rich article. As an individual who has met the man who murdered her father, twenty-nine years later, I value the fact that both the one/s on caused harm and the one/s who have the harm caused can have ‘passionate objectivity’ in view of what accountability means for healing and hope, even where painful paradox lives, empathy can find voice.
Sincerely,
Margot Van Sluytman

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