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Sex Offending |
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Sex Offences: hysteria v reality
This issue exposes the contradictions of personal behaviour, commercial interests and government responses like no other. Justice Action has for many years defended the apparently indefensible, embraced the most reviled, and feels that handling this issue properly will lead to a reconsideration of community values on punishment. The furore around Ray (Dennis) Ferguson has given us the focus.
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Prisons as part of the Community |
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Analysis of the conflicting policies of social exclusion and community building, giving examples of how they apply in practice. This is a key to JA's work. Presented to the NSW Legislative Council 2009 as part of the campaign against the corporate privatisation for prisons. download
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Therapeutic Communities |
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Therapeutic communities with restorative justice and mentoring are effective
solutions to community problems. Our own experience of positive responses to
trust and sharing are entirely applicable in the area of crime. The Alexander
Maconochies Norfolk Island experience, Jimmy Boyles story of the Barlinnie
Unit in Scotland, and the Special Care Unit in Long Bay are documented
examples of how they work effectively.
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JA Mentoring on youTube |
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Mentoring is about building a relationship
of mutual trust, friendship and support within which help, advice and
assistance can be offered as part of the process of re-building a life
after being labelled a criminal and where many barriers actively prevent
return to normal life.
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JA Mentoring |
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Changing the culture of criminal justice
Justice Action sees restorative justice and mentoring as the way
forward with social problems. Both are rational extensions of community
support which satisfy the needs of victims and make us all safer. But
the prison industrial complex is fighting tooth and nail to keep its
hostages, and us all afraid. New 4th Edn Handbook (pdf 1.4mb)
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Mentoring
