For all options students will be expected to share briefly in class, key findings and insights from the research.
Papers should be 2-3 single-spaced pages and include in-text APA citations and a comprehensive reference list of sources—at least 5 of which should be from our course material. It is harder to write a good short paper since you have to be very organized and concise.
The task is to focus on some of the opportunities that changes to the justice paradigm may bring to relationships in a rapidly diversifying society and to propose restorative justice reforms to help alleviate problems of crime, violence, and conflicts in other contexts (i.e. schools, environmental justice challenges, disasters, war and peace, etc.).
Option 1:
Restorative Justice term paper/presentation
You will have to convince a broad base of critics and supporters. How would a conservative supporter of the crime control model reply to a call for more humanistic techniques to reintegrate people in society, relying more on working through the relative harm committed and responding to the needs of victims, offenders, relatives and neighbors, and community institutions, than on the courts or prisons and traditional criminal justice methods of responding to the problem crime?
How would an RJ advocate respond to the conservative call for tougher sentences and more prisons to bring down crime rates? How does restorative justice speak to larger issues of social justice? What does RJ have to say – theoretically and practically – to the social structural conditions that create harm?
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