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"Keynote Address in New Zealand on Restorative Justice: 'What Will Turn the Tide'"

This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "This keynote was given at at conference in New Zealand titled "Restorative Justice: Turning the Tide." The talk was delivered by Lianne Audrey Dalziel. Excerpt:

"Our [prison] system simply fails to rehabilitate or deter, and our high recidivism rate is a clear indication of that failure. One reason for that failure is that imprisonment does not confront the inmate with his or her crime. For many inmates imprisonment represents no more than a period of monotonous and rigid routine which is coped with by living each day as it comes. Even though imprisonment is for some an unpleasant experience, few prisoners make clear or realistic connections in their own minds between their crime, its consequences and their incarceration..."

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Source: idealawg, 4 April 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).