Restoring Relationships: Addressing Hate Crime Through Restorative Justice

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Restoring Relationships Addressing Hate Crime
Through Restorative Justice
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The Project

• Three Phases
• 1) Literature Review
• 2) Interviews
• 3) Toolkit

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Phase One

• Desk Research
• Restorative Justice
• Hate Crime
• Legislation
• Gaps
• Typology
• International Examples

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Restorative Justice

• Definition
• Dominant informal-justice system
• Where it is implemented
• Schools
• Criminal Justice System
• Major concern has been the difficulty in
  quantifying results and inconsistency of approach

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Restorative Justice

• More qualitative than quantitative
• Ductility of RJ positive

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Hate Crime

• Definition
• Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
• Victims
• Offender
• Gaps

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Four Key Meetings

• MPA Race Hate Crime Forum
• Southwark Mediation
• Lambeth Youth Justice
• Restorative Justice Consortium

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• Metropolitan Police Authority Race Hate Crime
  Forum
• Improve co-ordination
• Prevent and reduce hate crime
• Satisfaction of victims

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• Southwark Mediation Centre
• RJ in practice
• Hate Crime
• Victim-Offender Mediation
• Group Conferencing

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• Lambeth Youth Justice
• Programs for young people
• Reduce re-offending
• Multi-agency approach
• Community safety

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• Restorative Justice Consortium
• Promote RJ
• Criminal Justice System
• Workplace
• Community

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Publications

• Stockholm Criminology Presentation
• Restorative Justice Theory and Practice
  Addressing the Discrepancy
• ROTA Policy Journal
• Monthly Policy Updates ROTA Newsletter

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British Journal of Criminology

• RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND HATE CRIME ADDRESSING
  THE GAP BETWEEN PRACTICE AND POLICY
  (Forthcoming)
• Recommendations made in Paper
• Multi-agency approach to defeat hate crime
• Need a definition for hate crime
• Adapt the CJS to combat hate crime
• Assessment of both punitive and preventive
  measures
• Funders supporting innovative projects
• Practitioners and Academics need to work together
  
• Support for long-term solutions

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Amendment to Phase II- Comparative Element

• Meeting W/Practitioners, Offenders and Victims in
  the U.S.
• Ample RJ programmes in the U.S.
• Balanced and Restorative Justice An Information
  Manual for California.
• BARJ (Balanced and Restorative Justice Project)
• VORPs In California

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Implementation of CASE Grant in the U.S.

• Meeting with JRP Lisa Rea
• UCLA
• Emailed Boalt Hall at Berkeley
• Youth Justice NGO in California

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Benefits for Students

• LSE Students learn
• Policy updates
• Key stakeholders
• Collaboration
• Research
• Teamwork
• Briefings

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Living Knowledge Conference

• Collaboration with academia
• Working with NGOs
• Advanced training
• Practical use of skills
• Network

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ROTA Volunteer Appreciation
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CASE Grant Success

• Carter Grant allowed us to
• Learn about important social issues
• Gain VCS experience
• Conduct a socially progressive project
• Advance key policy issues