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Created: November 30, 2003
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A Deeper Perspective of Restorative Justice: Bakhtinian Answerability

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"Understanding the Other in Terms of Bakhtinian Answerability." Paper presented by Michael Griffin, CSUDH, and Jesus Garcia, CSUDH. This paper draws the distinction between accountability and answerability, with special emphasis on the voice of the Other, in this case, either the Victim, or the Perpetrator. Answerability requires that each be heard in good faith; while accountability requires that some resolution to harms voiced be found.

"Understanding Crime as Cultural in the Sense of Answerability and Exploring Avenues of Voice for the Other," Paper presented by Larisa Machaneva, CSUDH, and Rita Brown, CSUDH. This paper focuses on the structural context in which the harm occured, and recognizes that the cultural context for both perpetrator and victim must be recognized and expressed for illocutionary and restorative discourse to begin.

"Unstated Assumptions of Transparency in Justice Discourse," Paper presented by Zerrona Fitts, CSUDH, and Marlene Whittaker, CSUDH. This paper focuses on the assumptions that the Other understands the context of what Person says, and examines the consequences of unstated assumptions.

"Answerability as a Means to Repairing Past Miscommunication in the Apperceptive Mass," Patricia Acone, CSUDH, and Nancy Romero, CSUDH. This paper focuses on the need for healing the pain of past miscommunications for the perpetrator as well as the victim, to permit real illocutionary discourse to begin to take place between them in the interest of restorative justice.

Commentary and Critique. Dwayne Sanders, CSUDH.

This session is designed to approach criminal justice from a restorative justice aspect, but with special focus on the fact that we are dealing with two humans, both perpetrator and victim, not one. We focus also on a recognition of the role of the individual in the social community, and the need for answerability for all within that context.