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| Cycle of violence,incarceration avoided by mediation skills program |
| By omglobe.com |
| Published: 11/28/2012 |
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In the world of young offenders, strong words can quickly lead to violence, turning a brief youth-detention stay into a lifetime cycle of incarceration. Law-school professors and their students are working with young offenders in Southern California to help them break this cycle through conflict mediation to solve their problems with others. Floralyn Einesman - Linda Morton For two decades, Professors Floralynn Einesman and Linda Morton of California Western School of Law have run an advanced mediation course for law students–a successful program in which their law students mediate conflicts between juvenile detainees between the ages of 13 and 18 at two detention centers near San Diego. Believed to be the only one of its kind in the country, the program helps the teens learn to get along with each other to avoid going into isolation, being transferred to another facility or facing other problems, down the road. The program, which recently earned regional recognition for its successes, including a conflict prevention award from the Center for Civic Mediation in Los Angeles, sends CWSL law students to the juvenile detention facilities to work directly with young offenders. Participants call the approach rewarding, and indicate that it often puts their communication and mediation skills to the test. Read More. |
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