Thursday, June 2nd
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
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Our special guest this week, Dr. Dianna Williams, International Consultant at ICOD GLOBAL, will be presenting on:
Restorative Practices: A Discursive Public Health Approach to Wrongdoing and the Wrongdoer
Punishment as retribution belongs to a penal philosophy that is archaic and discredited by penologists. Our correctional system, whose raison d’etre is correcting or rehabilitating wrongdoers, serves instead to protect society against crime and exact such punishment on wrongdoers that they are expected to refrain from future wrongdoing regardless of the underlying reasons for the initial engagement in criminal activity. This logic assumes that man is a rational, pleasure-seeking creature who can be prevented from engaging in antisocial and illegal behavior simply because of the prospect that the pain of punishment will outweigh the benefits gained from the commission of the crime. This is another assumption that may again, be misplaced, if recidivism rates and prison population are any indication.
Dr. Williams brings a wide range of international conflict-related training experience. She has a strong background in the Caribbean and Latin America, in particular around criminology, conflict resolution, mediation, restorative practices, restorative justice and cultural competency. In her previous life she was a Criminologist and Consultant and has done coursework at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the International Institute for Restorative Practices as well as the National Defense University William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, where she is a rostered adjunct instructor. She is a Clinically Certified Criminal Justice Specialist, a Certified Sentence Mitigation Specialist, a Certified Social and Behavioral Research Investigator and a Certified Mediator. She is a Licensed Trainer of Trainers in Restorative Practices, a Crime Prevention through Community Engagement and a Crime Prevention through Environmental Design specialist. Dr. Williams has numerous publications and co-authored the 2012 United Nation’s Human Development Report for Trinidad and Tobago.