Restorative Justice (RJ) and Gender: How Women Police are best placed to apply Restorative Justice Values in Policing Practices?

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Restorative Justice (RJ) and GenderHow Women
Police are best placed to apply Restorative
Justice Values in Policing Practices?

• Kamal Uddin Tipu PSPPolice AdviserUN Office to
  the African Union (UNOAU)

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Sequence

• What is Restorative Justice?
• Dimensions of Crime
• Needs and Roles of Victims Offenders Community
• What are the RJ principles and values?
• Traditional Justice Vs Restorative Justice
• Personal journey to Circles
• Circle values
• Feminine Values
• How Women Police Officers are best placed to
  employ the Values in Policing Practices?

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What is Restorative Justice?

• Addresses needs of victims offenders and
  Community
• Another way of looking at Crime
• Alternative way of thinking about wrong
  doingDirection for the future
• Resolution and Transformation of Conflict
• Participatory Democracy beyond Majority
  Consensus
• Principles Philosophy Guiding Questions

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Public (Societal)Private (Local and Personal)

• Dimensions of Crime

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Needs and Roles of Victims, Offenders Community

• -Crime is a violation of people and
  interpersonal relationship -Violations create
  obligations -The central obligation to put right
  the wrong.

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Restorative Justice Principles

1. Focus on the harms and consequent needs of the
   victims, as well as the communities and the
   offenders
2. Address the obligations that result from those
   harms (the obligations of the offenders, as well
   as the communities and societys)
3. Use inclusive , collaborative processes
4. Involve those with a legitimate stake in the
   situation, including victims, offenders,
   community members, and society.
5. Seek to put right the wrongs.

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What are the RJ Values? -Relationship-Responsib
ility-Respect
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Questions
Criminal Justice Restorative Justice
What laws have been broken? Who has been hurt?
Who did it? What are their needs?
What do they deserve? Whose obligations are these?
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Two Different Views

• Criminal Justice

• Restorative Justice

• Crime is a violation of the law and the state
• Violations create guilt
• Justice requires state to determine blame (guilt)
  and impose pain (punishment)
• Central focus offenders getting what they
  deserve

• Crime is a violation of people and relationships
• Violations create obligations
• Justice involves victims, offenders and community
  members in an effort to put things right
• Central focus victim needs and offender
  responsibility for repairing harm

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Old and New Justice Paradigm

• Traditional Justice

• Restorative Justice

Problem

• Defined narrowly, abstractly, legally (what rule
  was broken)
• Only legal variables (rules) are relevant
• The state (organizational authority) is the victim

• Defined relationally
• Overall context is relevant
• People are victims

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Old and New Justice Paradigm

• Traditional Justice

• Restorative Justice

Actors

• Victim and offender is primary with state
  (organizational authority) and community

• State (organizational authority) is active and
  offender is passive

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Old and New Justice Paradigm

• Traditional Justice

• Restorative Justice

Process

• Participatory, maximizing information, dialogue
  and mutual agreement
• Focus is on needs and obligations

• Adversarial, authoritarian, technical, impersonal
• Focus is guilt and blame
• Neutralizing strategies encouraged

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Old and New Justice Paradigm

• Traditional Justice

• Restorative Justice

Outcomes

• Making things right by identifying needs and
  obligations healing, problem solving
• Harm by offender balanced by making it right
• Oriented to future

• Pain and suffering
• Harm by offender balanced by harm to offender
• Oriented to past

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-Restorative Justice focus on harms-Harms
result in needs and obligations -Restorative
Justice promotes engagement
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Definition of RJ

• Restorative Justice is a process to involve, to
  the extent possible, those who have a stake in a
  specific offense and to collectively identify and
  address harms, needs and obligations in order to
  heal and put things as right as possible
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  Howard Zehr

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Definition of RJ

• Restorative Justice is a process whereby the
  parties with a stake in the offense come together
  to resolve collectively how to deal with the
  aftermath of the offense and its implications for
  the future.
• Tony Marshall

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Restorative Practices

• Victim Offender Reconciliation Program
• Victim Offender Conference/ Mediation
• Family Group Conference
• Jirga
• Panchayat
• Restorative Mediation
• Criminal Justice Programs Alternative or
  diversionary programs healing or therapeutic
  programs transitional programs
• Circles

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Circles
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Circles Values

• Respect
• Honesty
• Humility
• Sharing
• Inclusivity

• Empathy
• Courage
• Forgiveness
• Love
• Trust

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What are Feminine Values?
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Feminine values

• Compassion
• Coordination
• Connection
• Connectedness Relationship

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How Women Police Officers are best placed to
employ the Values in Policing Practices?
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• Most women possess the feminine values
• Policing practices involve engaging with people
  and community
• Investigation
• Community Policing
• Public relations

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