Community justice centres are bold and radical. But do they work?

The North Liverpool Community Justice Centre developed a vision of justice, but statistics show thereapeutic Department of Justice does not reduce recidivism

Pioneer North Liverpool Community Justice Centre (NLCJC) started at a different time and more informed (well, 2005), which is based in the United States. His model was the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, which has helped to regenerate parts of Brooklyn, once described as one of the leading American "crack" infested areas by Life magazine.

In 2002, Lord Woolf visited Red Hook and I was impressed. Then Interior Minister, David Blunkett, followed by the Chief Justice of the Atlantic. He became something incredible to convert an unprecedented experience and is unlikely to be repeated in our criminal justice system.

Ten years later NLCJC is a bold and radical problem. It does not work.

least not according to an analysis by the Department of Justice, published this month, the latest in a series of reports suggesting that the court had zero impact. A 2010 Green Paper, although positive on a better community involvement in the criminal justice process, said that the "prohibitive cost" of the center.

It does not take a pessimist to believe that the "age of austerity" - large cuts of Justice and a reduction program closing -. That day the court are numbered pioneer

But the ideas of "community justice" persist. The Minister of Police and Criminal Justice Nick Herbert has recently promised "justice fast and reliable" and inevitably invoke the notion of 'community justice' increasingly Shaggy. He spoke of judges in each of the community centers that offer "level fast and efficient justice down uncontested cases."

New Labour had a greater idea. It was a vision for troubleshooting network type of community justice centers that address criminal behavior and listen to what communities expect their courts. Liverpool North, located in a former school in the borders being Kirkdale, at a cost of £ 5.2m commissioning, was the center of the court only built on this model - despite the proliferation of so-called " justice community centers ", which are often little more than rebranding exercises.

The center has four rooms with a local population of 65,000 inhabitants and is a resource center, including Citizens Advice, probation officers and drug treatment. A judge, Fletcher, presides over all cases. Fletcher is a strong advocate of what he called TJ - a phrase that could make a lot of brothers in the back seat in horror. Even when comparing the role of a judge to that of a social worker.

I've been in court several times - the last time to make this film. "The role of the judge in the criminal justice process has changed," said Fletcher.

"There was a time that we were responsible for the case. There to ensure that the perpetrators were not convicted. Were very concerned about the criminal justice process, not results ".

therapeutic approach "from the judge and the court became increasingly involved in the causes of crime in the hope of securing not recur," he said.

I also met Gary

Kirkdale. "I was arrested many times I lost count. Fuck my life, "he said. Gary had the choice of going to prison for six weeks or by a treatment program for six months under the close supervision of Fletcher. Far, so good: Gary had managed to maintain a decade of alcoholism in check. As Fletcher said, the problem-solving approach to community justice is "put it all together, head bowed, clarify the problem, then." The alternative was to "lock people up for short periods and back into the community," without addressing the underlying problems, he said.

Unfortunately

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Is teaching a profession? Discuss

announced that Michael Gove teaching qualification will no longer be required to teach in the schools of the Academy will do nothing to reassure those who have questions about teaching is a profession

recent announcement that Michael Gove Qualified Teacher (QTS) will no longer be required to teach in the schools of the Academy will do nothing to reassure those who have questions about teaching is a profession. In fact, usually referred to as an art.

I was at a party and another customer asked what I was doing in life. I replied: "By profession I am a teacher."

"Well, teaching is not a profession." He replied. When asked why he did this view, said: "Because teachers are willing to to strike the current members of the professions non-strikers. ".

any point of view, it is a very narrow definition of the profession. But I get asked this question all the new teachers I know, "Teaching is a profession?"

Most said: "Yes, of course" but I ask them to define "profession" and how is it different from any other work. Can I get a variety of answers. Example Some say: "professions such as teaching are generally respected, trusted, and are expected to be role models." Others add that to enter a profession "generally requires education, training, skills, commitment, dedication and passion itself. "Some repairs and say:" Well, but this definition may include electricians and mechanics, hairdressers as "

I agree, at least to some extent. My mechanic probably all these qualities - it certainly has a passion for cars and seems very dedicated to my satisfaction as a customer

But I wonder if a member of the public, and especially as a parent, I expect the same thing from an electrical mechanic, plumber, hairdresser or car as you would for a doctor, lawyer or professor my son?

And this is where I realize to expect something different.

For example, I know that my mechanic has no qualification in automotive, though it was repairing my car for years and it is awesome. To be honest with you, I do not mind that he is a great auto mechanic and does a very good job repairing my car at a good price.

• But I mind if my child's teacher was not qualified. For some reason, I want to know what the person in front of my child is well trained and qualified to do this work for the high level that we all expect.
back to my auto mechanic. He is a good guy, but I do not know. I have no idea about his background, for example, if you have had a conviction would mean that we, serious injury, or the drug trade category A.

if this is a problem for me if it did? I'll be honest. It is not. The only thing that worries me is that if you do a good job in my car at a reasonable price. What he has done in his past life or private is not a concern for me.

But what if my child's teacher has a conviction for serious injury or dealing Class A drugs? Now, this is a question I would be much more interested in knowing the answer.

This does not mean that the company must not forget the stupid mistakes made by people of a misspent youth. But - call me old fashioned - I think most people have problems that need security

continue to expect more people like doctors, nurses, lawyers and yes, teachers, those who do not necessarily expect people like electricians, plumbers, hairdressers and mechanics. It can be related to concepts rather ill-defined as trust or reputation or a bad concept further defined as a model to follow. Anyway, I think that hope still exists and is real.

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London 2012 protests: heavy-handed policing is an affront to rights | Wail Qasim

Stop Critical Mass cyclists

shows how far can the police - a low tolerance for the Games and beyond

"People have the right to protest and is a very important part of our democracy," the Metropolitan Police said in its usual form, having stopped 182 people on the path of the ongoing cycle of Critical Mass opening ceremony of the Olympics. But - there's always a "but" here - we are invited to understand that they must balance this right with the rights of others to go about their business. "This appeal to the rights of a fictitious group of people perceive the police as being in danger, in this case, a group of cyclists, is used to derogate from the rights otherwise to provide demonstrators. It is not uncommon, but still disturbing.

However, the mass arrest of cyclists who disrupt Friday should not be considered as an over-the-top reaction from the police. This is the last low point of an attitude which shows a very low tolerance for dissent leading up to the London Games in 2012.

Back in April of this year, we saw the first "Olympic asbo" delivered, which prevented Simon Moore, arrested for protesting against the construction of basketball in Leyton Marsh "approach based on Olympic activity, or an officer. "The conditions of this order would soon become the model for the conditions of the bail given to most of the protesters arrested in the months before the Games, even including those who have no link to protest against Olympics as a series of ex-graffiti artists.

• The actual role of these draconian conditions of release that would have a significant impact on people's lives while they wait for months before they appear in court or pay seems twofold: extrajudicial police and boring easy ways by which they can criminalize dissent lowest level for the Games. We have only to look at the people, in fact, most of the 182 free, we must now go anywhere near the Olympics prohibited.
• This exercise control over people's lives to avoid protest against or near the Olympics extends beyond the police can impose conditions by a bond or ASBO. The weekend before the Games officially began on agricultural Carpenters residents in Newham hold a "round gentrification" of the area of ??present plans to regenerate the property by a possible agreement between the city and Newham University College London. Yet as the tour tried to access the local residents that he was prevented from doing so by the BBC security and police, as a broadcaster uses the first five floors of the tower to cover the Olympics. It seems that the mere proximity of the inhibitor of the Olympic event responsible for the police, even if you try to access your own home.

dystopian farce and acts as the arrest of six persons for pour custard on street theater often invited comments that events like the Olympics to present a "state of emergency" - where human are repealed standard to provide a spectacle. But the Italian theorist Giorgio Agamben, who is best known for discussing the issue should not be misinterpreted. It is a state of emergency, but far from being a period outside the norm in that the normal duties do not apply, there is a possibility for the lack of right to be duly inaugurated right after the exception Olympics is over.

clearly stronger when the exception is known by contact with the police, which appear as sovereign, and not the number of judicial opinions can make the freedom brought by them after all. Claiming to balance the "right to protest" against the "rights of others to go about their business" well practiced his line requires just really manage our lives in order to make dissent as invisible and unattractive as possible during the Olympics and beyond.

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Vince Cable announces £120m investment for UK aerospace industry

Business

efficient secretary said he hopes will help maintain the UK's status as the largest aerospace industry in Europe

business secretary Vince Cable has moved to the specter of decades of failed paris "winners" of the industry rise government support for aerospace with a £ 120m funding announcement.

Cable welcomed the investment, which includes funding for the engines low carbon, as a key step in maintaining the UK's position as the second largest producer in the global industry of aerospace. The industry is on the verge of rapid expansion in the coming decades, driven by demand from emerging markets for new planes million pounds in potential exports for British companies.

Recent injection of cash into the sector will be divided between the taxpayer and the private sector, led by an investment of £ 40 million each in a program led by Rolls-Royce to develop engines had greener. The announcement is supplemented by joint investment of £ 15 million in research and development 11 pounds 6m in education 500 aeronautical engineers to master and an investment of 20 million euros in the aerospace industry a center of excellence for aerodynamics.

Speaking at the Farnborough Air Show, Cable said the government did not hesitate to show bias toward certain sectors - the extension of a policy change that began plan during the previous administration scrapped car in 2008/2009. Before that, the government's attempts to collect favored companies that manufacturer British Leyland in 1970 were considered costly failures.

he said. "In the past, we were rather inhibited in government have been accused of picking winners

• "But I'm not at all ashamed to say that this area is one of our winners. There is nothing wrong with the government to get behind performing sectors of the economy."
• Airbus, one of the largest customers of the aviation industry in the UK, said the announcement of the cable into the engine at low carbon - which runs a program launched in 2009 - Large Britain maintained through the development of new aircraft to succeed the A320neo and A380. Günter Butschek, head of Airbus COO responsible for manufacturing, said: "This is the right time to make this commitment because 95% of our commitments to research and development of ecology, especially in the energy efficiency of this commitment is directed towards it. objectives means that the UK is in perfect harmony with the general direction towards the next generation of aircraft. "

Airbus, with its U.S. rival Boeing using the Farnborough Airshow this week to fight for new orders. Boeing was the winner of the second day, as awarded two prizes worth a little over $ 11 billion (EUR 7.1 billion) for its short 737 remodeled including GE Capital Aviation Services, Rental commercial aircraft and the financial arm of General Electric. Meanwhile, Cathay Pacific Airbus says it has placed a firm order worth $ 4.2 billion for its long-haul A350-1000.

Boeing sees demand for 34,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years, which equates to $ 4.5tn sales and double the current fleet of commercial aircraft in the world.

Cable announced the investment of £ 120m next to a "strategic vision" for the British aerospace industry developed by the Aerospace Growth Partnership -. Composed of representatives of government and the private sector

The secretary said that the company's strategy to maintain the UK's status as host of the aviation industry in the world and the second largest in Europe. The vision includes the creation of a banking forum aerospace to help SMEs to obtain financing from banks and closer financial institutions. "We recognize there is a problem and every time I go there companies that manufacture reinforce this message."
cable added that he was interested in creating an equivalent to the Aerospace Growth Partnership for the defense industry, which has expressed concern about the apparent lack of a strategic plan to support joined-up government defense contractors. "We have a strategic objective of the class we have for the aerospace industry," he said.

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Richard Dawkins in furious row with EO Wilson over theory of evolution

Book Review

sparks war of words between the great man of the biology and highest profile Darwinian Oxford In case of disagreement between the two giants of the genetic theory, Richard Dawkins and EO Wilson, is fought by rival academic areas in an effort to understand the evolution of species. Sage spat was prompted by the publication of a critical review of the new book searingly Wilson Social Conquest of Earth

Perspective

Magazine this month. The review, written by Dawkins, author of the popular and influential books

The Selfish Gene The Blind Watchmaker

and

The God Delusion

caused more letters and online comments than any other article in the recent history of the journal and attack Wilson's theory "as unlikely, as supported by the evidence. " "I'm not funny when I say the last book of Edward Wilson are interesting and informative chapters on human evolution, and forms of social insects (he knows better than n ' any man alive), and it was a good idea to write a book comparing the two summits of social evolution, but unfortunately, we have to go many pages of misunderstandings and downright perverse theory of evolution wrong, "Dawkins wrote.

Oxford evolutionary biologist, 71, was also outraged many readers by listing other authority established academic said, are on your side when it comes to accurately represent the mechanism by species evolve. Wilson, in a written quickly in response to the negative criticism of Dawkins, was also clearly annoyed by this attempt to overwhelm.

"In any case," Wilson wrote, "making these lists is useless. If science depends on rhetoric and surveys, we would still be burning objects phlogiston [a mythical fire as an element] and navigate maps location-centric. "

Wilson, 83, is a professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University who became famous in the 1970s with his study of social species on their books

The

companies insects

and

Sociobiology

• . It is internationally recognized as the "father of sociobiology," and is the main authority in the world of ants.
• lay audiences, the line is a symptom of the long and controversial idea of ??evolution. Basically, there is a dispute as to whether natural selection, the theory of "survival of the fittest" first by Charles Darwin in 1859, occurs only to preserve the single gene. Wilson is an advocate of the "theory of multilevel selection", a development of the idea of ??"kin selection", which means that other priorities biological, social and environmental issues, perhaps even this process.

But Dawkins is not convinced: "Wilson is now rejecting kin selection" and replaces it with a cover of "group selection" - the view that ill-defined and inconsistent changes is driven by differential survival of all groups of organisms. "

Conflict is part of a long tradition of academic attempts to interpret and apply the theories that have been provisionally established by Darwin in

The

The Origin of Species

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Said & Done: Euro 2012 football diary, week three

Euro 2012, three weeks Platini about the legacy, the point of the week, Russia reunified most Loulou views

Men

of the week

Michel Platini

in real winners of Euro 2012. "Poland has won Euro Euro Ukraine won by people who love football to thank us for the tournament ... The people we do thank you for his legacy "Among them: £ 2.5 billion of public funds lost to so-called" waste or steal "in Ukraine since its £ 6.5 billion total tournament revised estimates. Government of Ukraine. "This is science fiction"

(Among the "costs of concern" identified in the country before the tournament:

£ 55 000

spent 10 wooden benches more £ 320,000

spent 10 portable toilets - dubbed by the media. Donetsk "Well our gold")

tempt fate

24:

hours before England beat Ukraine Platini has celebrated the success of UEFA officials promoted the goal line. "With five officials, who see everything. They do not take a decision without being fully aware of the facts ... I am very, very happy. "

elsewhere Euro 2012 no man of the week : former Fifa transparency icon Jack Warner - celebrating a new job in politics as Minister of Trinidad - national security. PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar: "Our priority is the fight against crime, and Mr. Warner is a man of action." Jack:. "'M will hit the ground running"

Clock commitment

2011:

Polish Federation head Grzegorz Lato denies alleged corruption and agrees to resign if Poland did not leave his group in Euro 2012. "Yes, I decide virile I am not the President of welded stool FA". .

2012:

"Disclaimer I see no reason to give up?".

News

PR: clarification of the week

June 16

, Andrey Arshavin of Russia for the fans: "We did not meet your expectations That's your problem, not ours. ". June 21

." As captain, I want to apologize to our deficits was disappointing at all. "

Reactions in Russia

. Aa

communist politician Sergey Malinkovich
: "Kim Jong-il send these traitors football rice idiots What prevents us to send our construction sites ". Ex-player Aleksandr Panov

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The Paycheck Fairness Act's realpolitik | Naomi Wolf

On average, women represent only 77 cents for every dollar men receive. But demagoguery election year has paid attention to the equity value

Again, with depressing regularity, another bill to make it easier to fight for equal pay between men and women has been the subject of debate Congress. And once again, we are bombarded with misleading scholarships funded think tanks interested.

Is it a dead issue, as - and if so, is one of the main justifications for the claim that feminism is not necessary, right? Unfortunately, the answer is a resounding "no".

Paycheck Fairness Act oppose were stealthy and effective debate to disseminate misinformation. Iteration very worn on television and in magazines wise analysis is that the wage gap is actually due to a "breach of options" - which means that, nowadays, any wage gap between men and women should be only with different life choices women make. They say women are opting for a "mommy track", for example, or professions that offer greater freedom to stay home with the children.

National Center for Women Act (NWLC) has been targeting these hoaxes for years, arguing that the wage gap "is not simply a matter of choice in employment" for women are "generally paid less than men in the same profession," regardless of the wage level.

The truth is that women working full-time are paid on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a white man in the United States. The situation is even worse for black and Hispanic women, who earn 62 and 54 cents, respectively, for every dollar a white man.

According to a fact sheet (pdf) prepared by the NWLC, the annual gap between women and white men a total of $ 10,784, and the trend is that volume growth in recent years, especially for university graduates. Emphasizes the organization:

"Even when women are career opportunities as men work the same hours and earn less."

And as women age, the sex wage gap is increasing. This may help explain why so many young women think it is a very important thing, while older women do not wake up to the magnitude of systemic injustice until is too late to act organized many.

Who would be against equity compensation for the same work, or against a bill to strengthen the role of women as they try to document and challenge demonstrable gender?

• Chambers of Commerce
• powerful in America, that's who. The title sounds familiar, "chamber of commerce", which sounds like "Main Street" is actually a euphemism for Aggregate Global corporate interests - including the interests of the company. A paycheck fairness bill passed in the House of Representatives in January 2009, but was rejected by the Senate in November 2010. Why can not the Senate to pass this law? Because a non-pilot said profits for American companies ... ability to pay women less with impunity.
• women constitute the majority of the population, and are about to be half of its workers. If the wage gap, which remains stable at around 23%, is forced closed, businesses are looking for an increase of 12% of the total workforce - and a corresponding portion of the profits
• This equation was very clear to me early on in life, when work Yale Union - Local 34, a union of food workers who were mostly women - go on strike . They made the case that the gender wage was lower than the norm for men. But the direction of Yale students said, indeed, that the university would not negotiate with the strikers. The reason is simple: if women were paid more equitably, Yale lose the significant benefits that are now gone to cover other expenses. His argument was that Yale could not be profitable to bridge the gap between the sexes: the bank need to balance the benefits that are right on the gender gap. These "savings" for businesses and corporations are easily identifiable throughout the country and, indeed, international -. While women are ill-equipped in the struggle for the rights of equal pay

What is behind this fight, the more resistance companies to take unfair advantage cut aggregates from systematic injustice?

Party policy is the answer: before the Senate vote, the Washington Post reported that the bill will not pass. This result reflects the Post has a strategic advantage for the President's team:. Democrats will use this defeat the Republicans look like they could not care for gender less

Obama team is the calculation of a short-term impact on the business side is compensated by maximizing the gender gap in November - a region that has long been biased toward Democrats but was reduced in the latest polls. Obama is the creation of gender "lens" - including a surprise appearance during a conference call on Equal Remuneration, comfortably, including journalists. With this handy public media, the president makes his case:

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