Where will we find justice for Trayvon Martin?

The following is an invited guest post by my friend, colleague and fellow Morehouse College grad, David Anderson Hooker. Update July 18, 2013:  An interview with David following the Zimmerman trial can be heard here: I have good news and bad news for the family and supporters of Trayvon Martin: The ‘justice’ you seek is....

Restorative justice, mediation and ADR

Restorative justice (RJ) is often associated with mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).  I was reminded of this at the Conference of the European Forum for Restorative Justice in Bilbao, Spain, this spring.  Victim offender “mediation” was the practice most commonly mentioned and the lines between ADR and restorative justice often seemed unclear. Confusion about....

Wrongdoing (and heroism) in context

Philip Zimbardo’s 2007 book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, provides an in-depth description and evaluation of his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. To study the dynamics of prison, this famous experiment randomly assigned college student to be guards or inmates in a mock prison. Within a very short time the project had....