For Immediate Release 					January 23, 1996
 
Restorative Justice Examined in Lawrence University Main Hall Forum
 
 
	APPLETON, WIS. - Walter Dickie, former director of the Wisconsin
Department of Corrections, will discuss the role of restorative justice in
today's society in a Lawrence University Main Hall Forum Thursday, Feb. 1. 
Dickie's address, 'Forgiveness in the Criminal Justice System," will be held at
4:15 p.m. in Main Hall, Room 109.  The event is free and open to the public.
	A proponent of creative sentencing options, Dickie advocates a shift
toward the increased use of restorative justice in the judicial system. 
Restorative justice, according to Dickie, emphasizes the notions of social and
individual healing as well as apology, forgiveness and restitution over
vengeance and punishment.
	"Restorative justice is not forgetting; it is not condoning or 
pardoning; it is not inconsistent with punishment," said Dickie. "It relies on
recognition of the wrong so that repair can occur.  It also relies on the
taking of responsibility for the wrong in a personal and social way."   	
	Dickie has been a leader in the national "Campaign for an Effective 
Crime Policy," which advocates a national debate on the merits of incarceration
versus other forms of punishment.  Professor of law at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, since 1976, Dickie earlier this month was appointed Chair
of the Governor's Task Force on Corrections in Wisconsin.  He served as the
director of the state's Department of Corrections from 1983-87.
	Widely published as a scholar, Dickie has written extensively on a wide
variety of criminal justice issues, including violent juvenile offenders,
low-level drug offenders and boot-camp prisons.        
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