Restorative Justice: Imagining a New Future for Criminal Law in New York City
Additional Resources
Indigenous Roots of Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice in Action: A Man Killed Another Man, Then He Sat in a Circle With His Victim’s Family by Lucy Lang
Reclaiming Restorative Justice: An Alternate Paradigm for Justice by Shailly Agnihotri & Cassie Veach
The Myth of Legal Leverage? Toward a Relational Framework for Court-Based Treatment by Julian Adler, Joseph Barrett, and Michael Rempel
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered
A National Portrait of Restorative Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence
A PBS clip depicting the Center for Court Innovation's Restorative Justice in Schools Project
Organizations
The Restorative Center - https://www.therestorativecenter.org/
The Restorative Center is a 501(c)(3) organization which advances and advocates for restorative justice to address the profound issues of social disconnect. The organization has led hundreds of restorative justice circle processes and many trainings across the country since its creation in 2015, and the result is not only a strong programmatic portfolio but also a robust training curriculum.
Social Media - Twitter:@TheRestorativeC & Instagram:@therestorativecenter
Integral Justice - https://www.integraljustice.com/
Integral Justice seeks to collaborate with like-minded individuals, allies, organizations and media outlets that support and promote restorative, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive practices.
Justice Refined - https://www.justicerefined.org/
JUSTICE REFINED provides awareness, education and advocacy about fair approaches court systems that are responsible and hold individuals and communities accountable in the reformation of the way our society addresses harm and violence. Justice Refined is a group of allies made up of directly-impacted people and community members who promote awareness and encourage community involvement through participatory defense and legislative advocacy.
Center for Court Innovation - https://www.courtinnovation.org/
Originally founded as a public/private partnership between the New York State Unified Court System and the Fund for the City of New York, the Center for Court Innovation creates operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performs original research to determine what works (and what doesn't), and provides expert assistance to justice reformers around the world.
Federal Defenders of NY - https://federaldefendersny.org/
The Federal Defenders of New York began as a division of the Legal Aid Society after the Supreme Court's decision in Gideon v. Wainwright. In 2005, it became an independent, non-profit corporation dedicated solely to defending poor people accused of federal crimes.
Common Justice - https://www.commonjustice.org/
Common Justice develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration. Locally, we operate the first alternative-to-incarceration and victim-service program in the United States that focuses on violent felonies in the adult courts. Nationally, we leverage the lessons from our direct service to transform the justice system through partnerships, advocacy, and elevating the experience and power of those most impacted. Rigorous and hopeful, we build practical strategies to hold people accountable for harm, break cycles of violence, and secure safety, healing, and justice for survivors and their communities.
Project Reset - https://www.projectreset.nyc/bronx
Project Reset and Reset+ offer people the opportunity to resolve their criminal cases by participating in community-based programming. If you complete the programming, your case will not be prosecuted. You will not have to appear in court, you will not get a criminal record for this case, and your arrest record for this case will be sealed.