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Kamal Uddin Tipu PSP Police Adviser UN Office to the African Union (UNOAU)

Restorative Justice (RJ) and Gender: How Women Police are best placed to apply Restorative Justice Values in Policing Practices?. Kamal Uddin Tipu PSP Police Adviser UN Office to the African Union (UNOAU). Sequence. What is Restorative Justice? Dimensions of Crime

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Kamal Uddin Tipu PSP Police Adviser UN Office to the African Union (UNOAU)

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  1. Restorative Justice (RJ) and Gender:How Women Police are best placed to apply Restorative Justice Values in Policing Practices? Kamal Uddin Tipu PSPPolice AdviserUN Office to the African Union (UNOAU)

  2. 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?

  3. 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

  4. Dimensions of Crime Public (Societal)Private (Local and Personal)

  5. 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.

  6. Restorative Justice Principles Focus on the harms and consequent needs of the victims, as well as the communities’ and the offenders: Address the obligations that result from those harms (the obligations of the offenders, as well as the communities and society’s) Use inclusive , collaborative processes Involve those with a legitimate stake in the situation, including victims, offenders, community members, and society. Seek to put right the wrongs.

  7. What are the RJ Values? -Relationship-Responsibility-Respect

  8. Questions

  9. Two Different Views Criminal Justice Restorative Justice 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 • 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

  10. Old and New Justice Paradigm Traditional Justice Restorative Justice Defined relationally Overall context is relevant People are victims Problem • Defined narrowly, abstractly, legally (what rule was broken) • Only legal variables (rules) are relevant • The state (organizational authority) is the victim

  11. Old and New Justice Paradigm Traditional Justice Restorative Justice Victim and offender is primary with state (organizational authority) and community Actors • State (organizational authority) is active and offender is passive

  12. Old and New Justice Paradigm Traditional Justice Restorative Justice Participatory, maximizing information, dialogue and mutual agreement Focus is on needs and obligations Process • Adversarial, authoritarian, technical, impersonal • Focus is guilt and blame • Neutralizing strategies encouraged

  13. Old and New Justice Paradigm Traditional Justice Restorative Justice 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 Outcomes

  14. -Restorative Justice focus on harms-Harms result in needs and obligations-Restorative Justice promotes engagement

  15. 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 Howard Zehr

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Circles

  19. Circles Values • Respect • Honesty • Humility • Sharing • Inclusivity • Empathy • Courage • Forgiveness • Love • Trust

  20. What are Feminine Values?

  21. Feminine values • Compassion • Coordination • Connection Connectedness Relationship

  22. How Women Police Officers are best placed to employ the Values in Policing Practices?

  23. Most women possess the feminine values • Policing practices involve engaging with people and community • Investigation • Community Policing • Public relations

  24. Thank you! ???tipu@un.org

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