Restoring Relationships: Addressing Hate Crime
Through Restorative Justice
The Project
►Three Phases
 1) Literature Review
 2) Interviews
 3) ‘Toolkit’
Phase One
► Desk
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Research
Restorative Justice
Hate Crime
Legislation
‘Gaps’
Typology
International Examples
Restorative Justice
► Definition
► Dominant
informal-justice system
► Where it is implemented
 Schools
 Criminal Justice System
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Major concern has been the difficulty in
quantifying results and inconsistency of
approach
Restorative Justice
► More
qualitative than quantitative
► Ductility of RJ positive
Hate Crime
► Definition
► Stephen
► Victims
► Offender
► Gaps
Lawrence Inquiry
Four Key Meetings
► MPA
Race Hate Crime Forum
► Southwark Mediation
► Lambeth Youth Justice
► Restorative Justice Consortium
► Metropolitan
Crime Forum
Police Authority Race Hate
 Improve co-ordination
 Prevent and reduce hate crime
 Satisfaction of victims
► Southwark
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Mediation Centre
RJ in practice
Hate Crime
Victim-Offender Mediation
Group Conferencing
► Lambeth
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Youth Justice
Programs for young people
Reduce re-offending
Multi-agency approach
Community safety
► Restorative
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Justice Consortium
Promote RJ
Criminal Justice System
Workplace
Community
Publications
► Stockholm
Criminology Presentation
► “Restorative Justice Theory and Practice:
Addressing the Discrepancy”
► ROTA Policy Journal
► Monthly Policy Updates – ROTA Newsletter
British Journal of Criminology
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“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
Amendment to Phase IIComparative 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)
 VORP’s In California
Implementation of CASE Grant in the
U.S.
► Meeting
with JRP – Lisa Rea
► UCLA
► Emailed
Boalt Hall at Berkeley
► Youth Justice NGO in California
Benefits for Students
► LSE
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Students learn:
Policy updates
Key stakeholders
Collaboration
Research
Teamwork
Briefings
Living Knowledge Conference
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Collaboration with academia
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Working with NGO’s
Advanced training
Practical use of skills
Network
ROTA Volunteer Appreciation
CASE Grant Success
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Carter Grant allowed us to:
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Learn about important social issues
Gain VCS experience
Conduct a socially progressive project
Advance key policy issues