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If you’re new to our Accountability MATTERS conversations , you might begin with our first post in the series: What Offender Accountability MEANS
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Why Offender Accountability MATTERS
Offender Accountability matters because, when offenders are allowed to evade the responsibility to explain themselves – to acknowledge WHAT they did, HOW they did it, and WHY they did it – they’re also allowed to escape the responsibility to think about and reflect upon the choices they made. This enables them to minimize and excuse…
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Victim IMPACT Dialogues: the VICTIM-CENTERED term for Victim Offender Dialogues
Let’s face it: the point and purpose of Victim Offender Dialogues, even Victim-Centered Victim Offender Dialogues, continues to elude consistent objective definition. The phrase continues to mean what beholders, whether victim advocates or offender advocates, want it to mean. This could be because the phrase itself almost directly implies that neither person participating in such…
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CREDO: What Offender Accountability MEANS
Offender Accountability is a willingness – or accepted obligation – to acknowledge and admit causing traumatic harm and loss and devastation to others, and to account for the actual choices to cause those harms. This means taking responsibility for, and explaining those choices – without excuse or evasion, as difficult as that may seem to…
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Victim Silencing? – The trial of Dylann Roof
On Dylann Roof: One reason we’re compelled to keep making the case for Victim-Centered justice practices is addressed in the Washington Post piece (link below). Consider that, along with the outrage of Dylann Roof’s complaint, even the Judge has warned the Prosecution about too much emotional testimony from survivors. How have we ended up with…
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