Annotated Bibliography

Athens, Laura A. “ADR SPOTLIGHT: The Role of Restorative Practices in Effectively Addressing Gender Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace.” LegalNews, January 31, 2020. http://legalnews.com/oakland/1484292.

This article addresses the issue of gender discrimination in the workplace. It offers research and statistics showing that gender-based discrimination and harassment in the workplace is more prevalent in STEM than the average for all fields. Knowing this is important since Mines is a STEM campus that is predominantly male and it has a different culture than non-STEM campuses would. I think this article also offers a different perspective on restorative justice since it is not strictly about college campuses but rather about workplaces; college campuses also function as workplace for an array of people, ranging from teaching professors to research assistants to student teaching assistants. This resource can give us a perspective on how to, or if we should, handle gender descrimination in workplace scenarios different than perhaps in a student-on-student social scenario.

Best Practice Guidance for Restorative Practice. London, England: Restorative Justice Council, 2011.

This book provides great information to start creating procedures for restorative justice. This could act as a sort of skeleton for us to build upon and customize based on what we think will be most beneficial for our campus. It provides guidance for case supervisors, line managers, and service providers, which could be helpful for us during training the faculty and staff involved in restorative justice. It even offers insight into sensitive and complex cases, which will be helpful for us starting to better prepare for similar situations so we can better assist.

Draper, Jordan, Carries Landrum, Mary Jo Lopez, and Kaaren Williamsen. “Restorative Justice in Practice: Lessons and Insights from Campus Implementation.” NASPA Strategies Conference 2019. Lecture presented at the NASPA Strategies Conference 2019, January 2019.

This lecture provides information and insight on restorative justice based on implementation at the College of New Jersey and the University of Michigan. It provides an introduction to restorative justice, facilitating conferences, Title IX case studies, and recommendations. This provides invaluable insight in how to edit our basic procedures and scripts to better address issues experienced when used in practice as opposed to just theory.

James Madison University, Student Accountability and Restorative Practices, “Tip for Writing an Apology Letter.” Harrisburg, Virginia, n.d.

This is a list of steps and an example of writing an apology letter in restorative justice cases from James Madison University. This document could be a good start to creating an example apology letter to include in our assisting documents if we choose to go down that route, or provide the facilitator with tips on how to help any of the responsible party’s questions about writing their own apology letter should that come up.

Karp, David. Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and Universities Repairing Harm And Rebuilding Trust In Response To Student Misconduct. New York, NY: Good Books, 2015.

This book provides a lot of in-depth information about restorative justice, including examples of it in practice, formats for restorative justice conferences, even facilitator scripts and more. The “Little Book” is a great way to gain background knowledge and a strong understanding of restorative justice and a starting point for creating procedures and scripts. It also provides a list of sources and resources at the end for more reading.

All of us in the restorative justice working group started by reading this book to gain a better understanding of restorative justice by learning its background and the common practices. It has proved to be a great resource for us so we all have at least a basic starting point as we continue to build our knowledge through other resources as well.

Karp, David K., and Kaaren R. Williamsen. Rep. NASPA Research and Policy Institute Issue Brief: Five Things Student Affairs Administrator Should Know About Restorative Justice and Campus Sexual Harm. NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, n.d.

This brief from NASPA lists five important concepts in restorative justice and goes into depth of each: restorative justice is a philosophy of justice as well as a set of practices; restorative justice seeks to address harm through active accountability; restorative justice has a strong evidence base that guides assessment and successful implementation; restorative practices must be voluntary, trauma informed, protected, and safeguarded; restorative practice require extensive training and preparation. It explains how restorative justice tries to address the root of issues that survivors face and really try to achieve justice for survivors that focuses on repairing relationships rather than focusing on punitive justice. I think this will provide some concepts that we can do our best to emphasize in our trainings when preparing faculty and staff to handle restorative justice and why it is important.

Restorative Initiatives for Sexual Violence Working Group. Report from the Working Group on Restorative Initiatives for Sexual Violence. Edmonton, Alberta, 2018.

This lecture provides information and insight on restorative justice based on implementation at the University of Alberta. The report details the university’s procedures and recommendations based on experience with their implementation. It also addresses common concerns with restorative justice and explains advantages of restorative justice for sexual violence, which I think will really help us while we plan procedures and also how to address concerns others may have with this new system. The report compares the differences between disciplinary processes and restorative justice practices, which I believe will help us to better distinguish the two and make sure to keep them very separate. This all will provide us invaluable insight in how to edit our basic procedures and scripts to better address issues experienced when used in practice as opposed to just theory. The bibliography offers a detailed list of great resources as well for further reading.

Restorative Justice: An Alternative Process to Justice. It's On Us, n.d.

This handout from It’s On Us provides a simple, straightforward, and easily digestible introduction to restorative justice in the context of gender-based violence. The information provided could be good for the introductory sections in the Facilitation Guide about restorative justice and its uses in Title IX cases. The handout also provides a list of links to twenty colleges that are using or examining the use of restorative justice on their campuses, which provides great insight into what is working for other colleges and universities.