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Offering Up Comfort for Crime Victims

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a Q & A with Howard Zehr, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.  It's subtitled, "Liaisons foster good will between families, defense counsel."The Anglo-American criminal justice system hasn?t done a good job of taking care of crime victims. That was clear to a couple of parole officers in Quebec, Canada in 1974, after two drunk teenagers vandalized 22 properties on one street. The neighborhood was outraged, but everyone knew the kids were unlikely to have to face up to what they had done or make restitution. The judge was asked to make the boys go back and meet the victims. Reluctant at first, upon sentencing the judge did just that. It was so successful, says Professor Howard Zehr, that it launched the field of restorative justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).