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Criminal Justice Track
CRIMINAL JUSTICE TRACK
LAUREN ABRAMSON & MISTY FAE
12 Years of Restorative Justice in inner-city Baltimore: The vital role of affect and affect transformation.
Date of Presentation: Friday October 15th at 3:45 pm
Length of Presentation: 2 hour
Presentation Description: Community Conferencing is a community justice process that brings together victims, offenders, and their respective supporters to collectively resolve crimes and conflicts instead of going to court. Conferencing provides justice that is fair and effective--a big part of which is attributed to the role biology and affect play in this process. Conferences let participants transform their crimes into cooperation, moving the group from a roiling cauldron strong negative affect (created in the wake of harm), through to positive affects that help them find lasting and creative resolutions. Participants in this workshop will learn about the principles of this work, the innovative uses of conferencing in urban settings, and will hear many moving stories about how residents in inner-city Baltimore have safely and successfully resolved difficult crimes and conflicts themselves. This work has not only been instrumental in reforming the criminal justice system, but has also helped residents build safe and connected communities.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Lauren Abramson is a psychologist who has worked with children and families in communities for the past 25 years. She is currently Founder and Executive Director of the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, Maryland and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Lauren has applied Community Conferencing in justice, education, community development and business settings. She is a firm believer that the "Jerry Springer model" of handling conflicts isn't working well, and that we need to learn ways to better manage relationships and conflicts--and understanding affect is vital to doing so. Community Conferencing and Daily Rap provide structures for people to experience and learn affect expression, management, and conflict transformation.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Misty Fae is enjoying her second engagement with the Community Conferencing Center. First trained as a Community Conferencing Facilitator in 2000, Misty worked with the CCC until 2002, when she returned home to Michigan. After 6 years in Detroit using the conferencing processes in a variety of programs and administrative applications, Misty returned to the CCC in January 2009. Misty feels firmly that Community Conferencing in an integral part of creating a healthy, inclusive, and cohesive culture, where people feel safe to live, learn and love one another. Misty has a social work background, and studied at the Center for Humanistic Studies.
To learn more about the innovative work of the Community Conferencing Center, visit their website at http://www.communityconferencing.org/
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Lauren Abramson is a psychologist who has worked with children and families in communities for the past 25 years. She is currently Founder and Executive Director of the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, Maryland and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Lauren has applied Community Conferencing in justice, education, community development and business settings. She is a firm believer that the "Jerry Springer model" of handling conflicts isn't working well, and that we need to learn ways to better manage relationships and conflicts--and understanding affect is vital to doing so. Community Conferencing and Daily Rap provide structures for people to experience and learn affect expression, management, and conflict transformation.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Misty Fae is enjoying her second engagement with the Community Conferencing Center. First trained as a Community Conferencing Facilitator in 2000, Misty worked with the CCC until 2002, when she returned home to Michigan. After 6 years in Detroit using the conferencing processes in a variety of programs and administrative applications, Misty returned to the CCC in January 2009. Misty feels firmly that Community Conferencing in an integral part of creating a healthy, inclusive, and cohesive culture, where people feel safe to live, learn and love one another. Misty has a social work background, and studied at the Center for Humanistic Studies.
To learn more about the innovative work of the Community Conferencing Center, visit their website at http://www.communityconferencing.org/
PETA BLOOD & VICK KELLY
How affective are we? Working restoratively with victims, offenders and significant others.
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th at 10:15 am
Length of Presentation : 2 hour
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th at 10:15 am
Length of Presentation : 2 hour
Presentation Description: Victims, Offenders and their significant others often feel significant shame about what has happened to them or what they or their loved ones have done to others. Shame that is denied, hidden, avoided or otherwise unexpressed and unprocessed is a significant impediment to being an effective, accepted member of a community. Restorative processes create a milieu in which all the negative affect related to an incident can be explored in the presence of all involved. These processes help to un-package shame, expose it to self and others, so that all parties can hopefully move on and the community involved in the incident can be restored and strengthened.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Peta Blood was a Australian police officer for 15 years with much of that time spent dealing with the aftermath of crime and wrongdoing as a forensic officer. Whilst still an officer, Peta was struck by the power of restorative justice to make a difference in the lives of others. Since this time she has worked extensively in the field and deepened her understanding of affective theory. Peta is a co-founder and current director of Restorative Practices International.
More about Peta Blood's work can be found at: http://circlespeak.com.au/
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Vernon C. (Vick) Kelly, Jr., M.D. is a co-founder and the first Training Director of the Tomkins Institute. Working with Silvan S. Tomkins in the late 1980's, he developed the first cogent definition of emotional intimacy based on affect script psychology. After an eclectic training in child, family and adult psychiatry, he has worked with multiple generations of children, families, couples and individuals in private practice since 1975. He has lectured nationally and internationally on the basic tenets of affect script psychology, as well as its significance for understanding relationships and restorative justice practices. He is currently serving as Co-chairman of the Board of the Tomkins Institute and as a Director on the Board of Restorative Practices International.
To learn more about Restorative Practices International, go to: http://restorativepracticesinternational.org/
DAVID MOORE
The AFFECTs and SCRIPTs of
JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th
at 1:45 pm
Length of Presentation : 2 hour
Presentation Description: At an early Tomkins Institute Conference (1994), David Moore introduced participants to the Group Conferencing process. Group Conferencing was then being used for decision-making in youth justice and in care and protection. Conferencing helps groups of people transform conflict into cooperation, so that they can determine how best to improve their situation. It is considered a key example of “restorative (or transformative) justice.” The most widely used Group Conferencing training programs are explicitly informed by Affect Psychology.
Over the last decade and a half, Conferencing programs have been introduced in many jurisdictions. Evaluations show that these programs deliver lower rates of reoffending and higher rates of participant satisfaction than other programs can deliver for comparable cases. Yet administrators and legislators have been slow to extend Conferencing programs to the adult justice system. This presentation considers the passions and themes that drive reform and resistance to reform in criminal justice.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: David Moore consults as a facilitator, writer, designer & academic. David has taught in politics, history, law and peace & conflict studies at Melbourne, Charles Sturt, La Trobe and Queensland Universities. In the early 1990s, he coordinated Charles Sturt University’s Justice Studies program and was involved in international reforms using the Conferencing process in justice and education systems. David subsequently worked in Queensland’s Office of the Premier and Cabinet before co-founding Transformative Justice Australia (TJA). From 1996 – 2002, he trained Group Conference facilitators in Australia, North America and Europe, and provided facilitation and training services to Australian organizations across corporate, government, and community sectors. This work inspired David Williamson’s critically acclaimed Jack Manning Trilogy of plays: Face to Face, A Conversation, and Charitable Intent (1999 - 2001). (In 2010, Director Michael Rymer made Face to Face into a feature movie.)
In recent years, David has worked with colleagues to improve the ways individuals and organizations learn constructive communication. Much of this work is done as Principal Consultant with Primed Change Consulting. For more information about this innovative work, visit their website at: http://www.primed.net.au/
Over the last decade and a half, Conferencing programs have been introduced in many jurisdictions. Evaluations show that these programs deliver lower rates of reoffending and higher rates of participant satisfaction than other programs can deliver for comparable cases. Yet administrators and legislators have been slow to extend Conferencing programs to the adult justice system. This presentation considers the passions and themes that drive reform and resistance to reform in criminal justice.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: David Moore consults as a facilitator, writer, designer & academic. David has taught in politics, history, law and peace & conflict studies at Melbourne, Charles Sturt, La Trobe and Queensland Universities. In the early 1990s, he coordinated Charles Sturt University’s Justice Studies program and was involved in international reforms using the Conferencing process in justice and education systems. David subsequently worked in Queensland’s Office of the Premier and Cabinet before co-founding Transformative Justice Australia (TJA). From 1996 – 2002, he trained Group Conference facilitators in Australia, North America and Europe, and provided facilitation and training services to Australian organizations across corporate, government, and community sectors. This work inspired David Williamson’s critically acclaimed Jack Manning Trilogy of plays: Face to Face, A Conversation, and Charitable Intent (1999 - 2001). (In 2010, Director Michael Rymer made Face to Face into a feature movie.)
In recent years, David has worked with colleagues to improve the ways individuals and organizations learn constructive communication. Much of this work is done as Principal Consultant with Primed Change Consulting. For more information about this innovative work, visit their website at: http://www.primed.net.au/
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