Community Participation in Restorative Justice: Rituals, Reintegration, and Quasi-Professionalization

Rossner, Meredith; Bruce, Jasmine

doi:10.1080/15564886.2015.1125980

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“…In urban areas most affected by mass incarceration, residents and advocates have increasingly advanced restorative justice as an alternative to punitive criminal justice punishment (Rossner & Bruce, 2016). In theory, offenders can be diverted into such alternative processes that hold offenders accountable in community-based settings without relying on incarceration.…”

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Justice System Reform for Health Equity: A Mixed Methods Examination of Collaborating for Equity and Justice Principles in a Grassroots Organizing Coalition

Cooper¹,

Christens

2019

Health Educ Behav

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Recent critiques of collective impact have provided a conceptual alternative that emphasizes the necessity of community organizing, and more explicit emphasis on advancing equitable systems and policy changes. This article reports results from a study of a citywide coalition in Chicago, IL that espoused many of these same principles. The coalition focused on justice system reform—systems and policy change that would dismantle punitive policies disproportionately affecting people of color—but also sought to connect these efforts with broader social determinants of health. The organizations that comprised the coalition were a pairing of those traditionally involved in restorative justice practice, and those traditionally involved in grassroots organizing. An action research partnership provided an opportunity to investigate processes and outcomes of a coalition created to advance equitable systems and policy changes. This analysis of the coalition’s functioning employs a mixed methods approach. We utilize two waves of interorganizational social network data and qualitative data including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival document review to examine the coalition’s successes and challenges related to each of the six core principles of Collaborating for Equity and Justice. This analysis provides practical insights into the benefits and challenges of implementing deeply participatory processes to address policy and systemic drivers of social determinants of health. Findings show that fully integrating all six principles is challenging, especially when a coalition represents broad constituencies across race, geography, and organizational philosophy. In such diverse settings, considerable time must be spent to build relationships and a strong foundation for sustainable processes.

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Justice System Reform for Health Equity: A Mixed Methods Examination of Collaborating for Equity and Justice Principles in a Grassroots Organizing Coalition

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Christens

2019

Health Educ Behav

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“…In restorative justice, community members play a variety of roles, including the active and direct involvement of immediate family members of victims and offenders, concerned community members at peace-making circles, and the dedicated work of volunteers (Rossner & Bruce, 2016). I argue that restorative justice as a movement, as well as a form of practice, could benefit largely from the tested and proven methods of collective narrative practices.…”

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Narrative practices in restorative justice

Hajdu¹

2019

JMACA

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This paper gives a description of methodologies, practices and principles of narrative practices and an overview of restorative practices as a foundation for a suggested combination of the two approaches in dealing with criminal incidents. It notes similarities between the two approaches, including the importance of stories, involvement of communities and individuals in their own conflicts, rejection of blame, searching the broader social landscape for explanation and influence and acknowledging and accepting contradictory stories. The author sees the two movements as coming from different directions but occupying overlapping territories and identifies — two areas where combined use of the two approaches could be beneficial — at the interface between restorative justice and the courts and in the role of communities in restorative justice practice. It concludes with an invitation to practitioners to test the ideas for cross-fertilisation outlined in the article and to develop programmes that draw from both sets of practices for the benefit of victims, offenders and communities.

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“…McCold (2010) termed this type of community a micro community, and it comprises those who have "meaningful personal relationships" with the victim(s) and offender(s) (p. 156). A circle of care thus includes family members, friends, and significant others of the victims and offenders (Maglione, 2017;Rossner & Bruce, 2016). Pranis (2007) argues that the community acts as a resource for victims and offenders whereby they can hold each other accountable to certain values and principles.…”

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Community praxis: Exploring a community engagement framework for restorative justice in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Bangladesh

Asadullah

2020

JCSWB

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The concept of community is pervasive but ambiguous, and there is a lack of research on the role of community in restorative justice. Employing both in-depth qualitative interviews and surveys, this qualitative study unearths the role of community in restorative justice in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Bangladesh and examines existing community praxis in those places. The study proposes a community engagement framework which consists of horizontal community and vertical community. The study argues that incorporation of both horizontal and vertical communities would strengthen the quality of relationships, while also fostering innovation and creativity in restorative justice.

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Community Participation in Restorative Justice: Rituals, Reintegration, and Quasi-Professionalization

Cited by 33 publications

References 30 publications

Justice System Reform for Health Equity: A Mixed Methods Examination of Collaborating for Equity and Justice Principles in a Grassroots Organizing Coalition

Justice System Reform for Health Equity: A Mixed Methods Examination of Collaborating for Equity and Justice Principles in a Grassroots Organizing Coalition

Narrative practices in restorative justice

Community praxis: Exploring a community engagement framework for restorative justice in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Bangladesh

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