Social Justice
Restorative Justice, based on community group conferencing, is a process that brings together victim, offender and other people involved to empower them to work towards reparation, reconciliation and healing. We believe that alternatives to imprisonment should be used more widely. These include diversion, intensive supervision, mediated restitution and community programmes.
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Prison Reform - Penal System articles
You may like to read these topical papers on Prison Reform. They were presented at a public meeting held at Auckland Quaker Meeting House in June. The first paper was given by Warren Brookbanks, Professor of Law at Auckland University, while the second was by Tony Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington.
Prof Brookbanks addressed the unfairness of the Three-strikes legislation, and Tony Taylor addressed its futility before suggesting that a conflict of ideology was the real issue.
Brookbanks_Three_strikes_Quaker_talk.doc [95KB]
AKD_PENAL_REFORM_meeting.doc [85KB]