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Peacemaking, New York style.

Can an innovative justice model, drawing on Native American traditions, produce better outcomes than a criminal court?

Judge Alex Calabrese can wield the big stick if he needs to. But peacemakers at the Red Hook Community Justice Centre in Brooklyn often find it more effective to pass round what they call a talking stick. Joshua Rozenberg finds out whether a Native American form of dispute resolution can be transplanted to a deprived corner of New York.

Also, what the new director of public prosecutions for England and Wales thinks about screening jurors before they try rape cases. And one of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ team covering the Grenfell Tower Inquiry brings us up to date with the lines of evidence that have emerged so far.

(Picture: Alex Calabrese, Acting Supreme Court Justice for the State of New York and Presiding Judge at Red Hook Community Justice Centre)

Producer: Neil Koenig
Researcher: Diane Richardson

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28 minutes

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Thu 22 Nov 2018 20:00

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  • Tue 20 Nov 2018 16:00
  • Thu 22 Nov 2018 20:00

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