Making it Right: Restorative Justice for Youth
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 2:19PM Feb. 6, 2012, 3-4 pm Eastern, 2-3 pm Central, 1-2 pm Mountain, 12-1 pm Pacific
Restorative Justice offers a novel approach to dealing with criminals. Both offenders and victims become integral to the process with offenders encouraged to take responsibility for their actions — apologizing to victims, repaying stolen money and performing community service — in lieu of jail time.
Locally, social worker and mediator Linda Harvey and former Kentucky State Trooper Diana Queen have a pursued a vision for restorative justice in Kentucky. Harvey leads Juvenile Restorative Justice in Lexington, a program that works with juveniles who commit public offenses or who are considered beyond the control of their families or schools. Queen is the Executive Director of the Restorative Justice Center of Kentucky and is engaged in bringing restorative justice practices to schools, courts and the community.
On this segment of Spotlight on Youth, Harvey and Queen will talk about their work and what more can be done to expand the use of restorative justice in the juvenile justice arena and possibly shift the paradigm of our deeply embedded adversarial system of justice for the benefit of both offenders and the community.
Guests:
Linda Harvey, Juvenile Restorative Justice, Lexington
To listen to the show, go to Spotlight on Youth five minutes before the show is scheduled to start. If you would like to ask the guests a question live on air, you can call (347)994-1149 and push number 1 on your keypad.
Resources:
- Restorative Justice Fact Sheet
- Benefits of Juvenile Restorative Justice Process
- Restorative Solutions For Fayette County Middle Schools
- Cornerstones of Restorative Justice
- SaferSanerSchools
- Central Virginia Restorative Justice Principles and Values
- United Nations - Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes
Kentucky listeners are invited to attend the Restorative Justice: Transforming Youth one day conference on April 18, 2012 in Lexington, Kentucky. See the flyer for more details.