Tag: restorative justice

columns2018

Moving from retribution to restoration

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Post date June 3, 2018

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

“…the Church proposes a form of justice that is humanising, genuinely reconciliatory, a justice that leads the wrongdoer, through an educative path of encouraged penance, to rehabilitation and total reinsertion in the community.” (Pope Francis)

A Catholic approach to restorative justice “recognizes that the dignity of the human person applies to both victim and offender” (US Bishops). We live in a violent society. Every day the media assail our senses with news of violence/disharmony/disputes. While we thrash around in an effort to find solutions, there are tried and tested solutions staring us in the face.

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columns2018

Keeping former offenders on the straight and narrow

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Post date March 4, 2018

On Tuesday, February 20, I attended Vision on Mission’s (VOM) Preparation for release launch 2018, entitled: ‘Changing the Criminal Thinking’ — held at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca. Wayne Chance and various speakers spoke with passion.

Having spent a few days at a workshop in Tobago in January with Wayne and a number of NGO leaders who go the extra mile to lift T&T out of the depths of crime and violence to which we have descended, I know that all is not lost. There are enough good T&T citizens who continue to work tirelessly to build our nation.

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columns2014

Restorative Justice: moving from ‘policy to practice’

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Post date May 4, 2014

CCSJ continues its serialisation of our March 19 response, on behalf of the Archdiocese, to the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) Discussion Paper on Restorative Justice (RJ) in TT. This is Part 4.

We agree with Paul Goggins, UK MP, who said: “I don’t want Restorative Justice to simply be reserved for serious offenders. I also want to see this approach become firmly embedded in the everyday life of local communities. It can guide the way that schools develop effective discipline and anti-bullying strategies.

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columns2012

Support fund-raising dinner for APRC

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Post date May 10, 2012

Not to promote the interests of prisoners would be to make imprisonment a mere act of vengeance on the part of society…For all to play their part in building the common good they must work, in the measure of their competence, to ensure that prisoners have the means to redeem themselves, both as individuals and in their relations to society.” (Blessed John Paul II, July 2000 – Message for the Jubilee on Prisons)

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2003

Restorative Justice seminar

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Post date November 21, 2003

The Commission hosted a Seminar during Restorative Justice Week on the theme: “Developing New Approaches to T&T’s Criminal Justice System.”The Seminar was held on Friday, November 21, 2003 at Trinidad Hilton.

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