People think practices like restorative justice are ways to be “soft on crime.” Even left-leaning people.
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People think practices like restorative justice are ways to be “soft on crime.” Even left-leaning people. Especially white, left leaning people. Because our views on “crime” are even based in anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism.
You don’t practice restorative justice to “let criminals get off scott free.” You practice restorative justice to build your society’s ability to approach social problem from a restorative foundation.
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People think practices like restorative justice are ways to be “soft on crime.” Even left-leaning people. Especially white, left leaning people. Because our views on “crime” are even based in anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism.
You don’t practice restorative justice to “let criminals get off scott free.” You practice restorative justice to build your society’s ability to approach social problem from a restorative foundation.
@FinalGirl our view on crime is so screwed by the racists. They'll complain restricting a kid to his house for selling weed is to soft, they should go in prison (which is dumb, prison here are already at 150% capacity and in prison they meet real criminal).
Meanwhile, assign one for stealing a couple millions of public money and it's justice gone political, nevermind that justice is part of the political system and that the left didn't hold power in like the last 50 years -
@FinalGirl our view on crime is so screwed by the racists. They'll complain restricting a kid to his house for selling weed is to soft, they should go in prison (which is dumb, prison here are already at 150% capacity and in prison they meet real criminal).
Meanwhile, assign one for stealing a couple millions of public money and it's justice gone political, nevermind that justice is part of the political system and that the left didn't hold power in like the last 50 years@gkrnours @FinalGirl And not to mention that when there are conditional release from prison programs done here in the US that provide support and connections to people who will hire people with a record, we've actually seen those programs reduce recidivism better than letting people sit the full sentence.
Almost like the "soft" programs actually work...
