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Justice In America

Episode 19: Restorative Justice

Justice In America

The Appeal

News, Politics, Prison, Law, Criminal, Justice, Jail, History, Education, Incarceration, America

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we talk about an alternative to the traditional criminal adversarial process: restorative justice. Restorative justice focuses on repairing the harm caused by wrongdoing, and values reconciliation, community-involvement, and accountability over punishment and retribution. We discuss the benefits, limitations, and potential of restorative justice. We also talk to Sonya Shah, an associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a renowned restorative justice facilitator, trainer, and expert. Sonya is a survivor of child sexual abuse, and has worked extensively with survivors of sexual abuse and people who have committed sexual harm. In 2016 she founded The Ahimsa Collective, which offers non-punitive approaches to addressing and healing harm through the lenses of restorative and transformative justice. This episode also features audio from Danielle Sered, Executive Director of Common Justice.

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0:00.0

Restorative justice is really about being a community-based solution to dealing with harm and violence when it occurs.

0:15.4

And that's completely the opposite of our criminal justice system, the retributive system,

0:19.3

which is basically a lock-em-up and threw away the key approach where no one really cares about what

0:26.3

happened to the victim.

0:27.8

They're just used for conviction and no one really cares about what happened to the person

0:32.2

that did the harm.

0:33.2

Hi, I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and I'm Clint Smith, and this is Justice in America.

0:49.0

Each show we discuss a topic in the American Criminal Justice System, and we try to explain what it is and

0:54.7

how it works.

0:55.7

Thank you so much everyone for joining us today.

0:58.3

You can find us on Twitter at Justice Underscore Podcast, like our Facebook page at Justice in America and

1:03.8

subscribe and rate us on iTunes we'd love to hear from you and it really helps.

1:07.6

We opened with a clip from our guest Sonia Shaw and associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

1:16.0

Sonia currently works at the intersection of restorative justice and issues like trauma healing, sexual

1:21.9

violence, and structural oppression.

1:24.6

And she'll be talking to us about our topic for today, which is a little different from what

1:29.5

we normally talk about.

1:31.2

So usually we talk about problems on this show because understandably there are a lot of them.

1:37.1

We talk about what's wrong with the system and we usually spend pretty much no time on solutions

1:41.8

honestly. Right and the reason for that is pretty straightforward.

1:45.0

This system is very complicated and there isn't just one reason that things are this way.

1:51.0

You know, you'll hear people say mass incarceration

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