Collected Conference Resources

The following resources were suggested by presenters and participants during the course of the Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity Conference and included here for reference. 

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Books

Abuse of Trust: Healing from Clerical Sexual Abuse (Allan A. Hebert, et al)

Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice (Howard Zehr)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)

Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities (Edward C Valandra)

Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate (Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ)

The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ)

River of Fire: On Becoming an Activist (Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ)

Forgiving My Daughter’s Killer: A True Story of Loss, Faith, and Unexpected Grace (Kate Grosmaire)

The Little Book on Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing and Social Transformation (Fania E. Davis)

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Resmaa Menakem) 

Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Bryan N. Massingale)  

Redemption and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Restorative Justice (David Matzko McCarthy, Vicki Schieber, and Trudy D. Conway)

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi)

Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors (Denise K. Lajimodiere)

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (Gregory Boyle, SJ)

Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship (Gregory Boyle, SJ)

This Tender Land: A Novel (William Kent Krueger)

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration and a Road to Repair (Danielle Sered)

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Carol Anderson)

 

Articles

"Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?" | New York Times Magazine

"Common Justice Executive Director Danielle Sered Confronts Mass Incarceration in Her New Book, 'Until We Reckon'" | Art For Justice Fund

 

Videos

Teen Dating Violence PSA | Florida Restorative Justice Association

Restorative Justice after Murder (Conor McBride's Story) | WCTV

Segregated by Design | Mark Lopez and Richard Rothstein

Unseen Tears | Ron Douglas

 

Programs

Basic Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) Facilitator Training | The Insight Prison Project

Future Dangerousness - Two Part Webinar | Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice | The Oklahoma Eagle

Quarterly meeting of Faith and Race dialogue. Email: catholicfamilypeace@gmail.com

USD Center for Restorative Justice | University of San Diego

Certificate in Restorative Justice Facilitation and Leadership | University of San Diego

 

Resources

"Response and Implementation Plan" to the USCCB's text “Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration.”
An email copy available from Leonard Rubio at leonard@insightprisonproject.org 

Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants at the World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law | Pope Francis 

Fratelli Tutti | Pope Francis 

“The Legalization of Restorative Justice: A Fifty-State Empirical Analysis” | Thalia González

Overview of Colorado Restorative Justice Law | Colorado State Senate

 

Organizations

Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice | Website

The National Association of Community and Restorative Justice | Website

Order of Malta Pen Pal/Prison Ministry Program | Website

Restorative Action Alliance | Website

Homeboy Industries | Website

GU272 Descendants Association | Website

International Institute of Restorative Practices | Website

Awake | Website