Through Restorative Community Meetings, Juveniles Repair Harm And Avoid Lockup [WitnessLA.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/27/174:00 AM

In a new report, the non-profit Impact Justice explored the effects of a program in Alameda County that employs restorative justice techniques to keep juveniles out of lockup.

Community Works West’s Restorative Community Conferencing (RCC) program diverts more than 100 young people away from the juvenile justice system each year, according to the report. The program brings the youth—supported by their family and community—face to face with their crime victims to engage in a dialogue to repair the harm done.

The report looks specifically at three years’ worth of data from January 2012 through December 2014, comparing outcomes between kids who graduated from the RCC program and a control group of kids whose cases were processed in the juvenile court system.

[For more of this story, written by Taylor Walker, go to http://witnessla.com/through-r...rm-and-avoid-lockup/]

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