CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Legal Culture, Canadian Association Of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Restorative Justice

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 100
• Professor: Dan Horner

Document Summary

Crm 100 week 11: reforming the criminal justice system. John howard society: works with men in prison. Influence of first nations practices are used in rj. Form of accountability that is practiced in the current cjs is very abstract (ex. You rob a bank and you arrested and put on trial, the trial is actually an abstract of the community). With rj, you would need to sit around a table and look in the face of people you did wrong and realize what you did was wrong a(cid:374)d feel re(cid:373)orse, it"s a (cid:373)ore si(cid:374)(cid:272)ere for(cid:373) of a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)ta(cid:271)ility. It"s really just an alternative to the adversarial approach. This option is only open once someone has revealed their guilt, and rj can work at a variety of intervals. Rj is praised because it can divert people from incarceration. Provides the role of victims, victims are central for the mediation of the rj process.