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Workshop 2: Enhancing Criminal
Justice Reform, including Restorative Justice
Friday April 22, 2005 Bangkok, Thailand
Organized by The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy with the support of the Department of Justice Canada
In recent years there has been interest in discovering and promoting new ways that would serve to enhance the administration of justice worldwide. These modern reforms to justice have stemmed from the belief that the existing criminal justice systems are seriously limited in their ability to respond to demands for justice made by accused people, prisoners, witnesses, victims, populations such as women, children, indigenous peoples, various minorities, local communities, specific nations as well as the international community.
Workshop 2 will help identify some of the many challenges now facing criminal justice administration, offer a comprehensive review of current international, regional and domestic efforts to enhance criminal justice reforms and encourage a discussion of recent world-wide experience in improving the administration of justice. The workshop will give particular attention to the effects of criminal justice on the most vulnerable people, in particular women, children, indigenous peoples, and those from the poorer social strata. It will also attempt to identify best practices in criminal justice reform, implement restorative justice approaches, develop alternatives to imprisonment and solutions to the problem of prison overcrowding, and incorporate United Nations standards and norms relating to children in conflict with the law and restorative justice. It will also review restorative justice programmes as a means of taking into account the concerns of victims of crime.
For information please contact icclr@law.ubc.ca