CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Parliamentary Budget Officer, Transformative Justice, Retributive Justice
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Transformative justice & strategies for achieving transformative justice. What"s wrong with what we have: expensive. Immoral: the system is based on revenge; deterrence; caging people (majority young people, failure, recidivism rates high, breeds crime, prisons do not defer, prisons do not protect society. Institutionalize: revenge not the primary drive for victim, five basic needs for victims, answers. Why me? : recognition of their wrong, victim not to be blamed, safety, restitution, cannot unmake the past. Is not about money but to restore our sense of a secure, warm, caring community (morris, p. 13: significance: madd. To use one"s own pain to build a better, safer world for others is the most healing thing possible, after the recognition of one"s own wrong . From retributive justice to transformative justice: ruth morris" journey from retributive justice to transformative justice, misery justice (the justice system we currently have, alternatives: helping, reforming (10 years, abolition, transformative justice, corporate crime consciousness.