March 21/Ohio+Web: Mass Incarceration, Retributive Justice and the Penal Substitution Doctrine of the Atonement: Restorative Justice’s Response

Tom Porter
Co-Director of JustPeace

How did American criminal justice become so punitive? What role have theories of retributive justice played in this change? How have these theories influenced and been influenced by doctrines of atonement that assume God’s justice is retributive? Does restorative justice provide a more faithful understanding of atonement, and a better theoretical and practical grounding for our criminal justice system?
Title:
Mass Incarceration, Retributive Justice and the Penal Substitution Doctrine of the Atonement: Restorative Justice’s Response
Elmer F. and Ellen Laws Burwig Lecture, presented by the
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution (CISCDR)
When/Where:
March 21, 2013
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Eastern)
Moot Courtroom (A59)
11075 East Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Also  Webcast
Speaker:

Tom W. Porter, Jr. is a lecturer at Boston University School of Theology, where he co-directs the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program. He is also co-executive director of JUSTPEACE Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation of the United Methodist Church. Mr. Porter is an ordained elder of the New England Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, a trial lawyer, and a professional mediator. In 1983, he was a founding partner of the law firm Melick & Porter LLP and was a successful litigator for many years. A member of the Journal of Law and Religion, Mr. Porter was its chair from 1989 through 2001. He is editor or author of three books on restorative justice and reconciliation, such as "The Spirit and Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of Justpeace".
Credit:
1 hr. of CLE credit available, pending approval
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
More:
http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=312

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