In this conversation, Dr Sarah Lewis and Edit Törs explore the principles and practices of restorative justice, its challenges, and its connection to the evolving concept of Justice 2.0. They discuss the importance of dialogue, the need for a more humane criminal justice system, and the potential for restorative justice to address both individual and institutional harms. The conversation emphasizes the significance of community, empowerment, and the necessity of integrating restorative practices into existing systems to foster healing and transformation.

To learn more about this topic please visit:

EFRJ website: https://www.euforumrj.org/

EFRJ Conference Poznan: https://www.euforumrj.org/13th-efrj-conference-poznan-2026

EFRJ Publications: https://www.euforumrj.org/publications-documents

EFRJ organisational members: https://www.euforumrj.org/our-organisational-members

REstART festival:  https://www.euforumrj.org/restartfestival2025 

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We invite Heather Whitehead, a former prison leader, to talk about how she wants to upgrade Justice. Heather discusses the challenges leaders face and why we need to change leadership culture, to grow our senior staff.

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Becky White talks with Sarah Lewis about the exciting work she is doing to support culture change from a 'victims' perspective. Focusing on authentic relationships, quality standards and providing a meaning voice for those impacted by the Justice System is the focus of this J2.0 Series. A great watch for those interested in how change from commissioner/government level can make a real difference. For more information about Becky, check out her website: www.daiscic.org.uk or LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/becky-white-644bb853email [email protected] or [email protected] for more information or visit www.growtransformbelong.com for more information about getting involved with Justice 2.0- upgrading justice together!

Jamie Rogers and Dr Sarah Lewis thrash out the issue of staff training and how we can practically make the Criminal Justice System a learning culture. We have seven new professional development courses to support practitioners in working with people in the Criminal Justice System so please visit www.growtransformbelong.com

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Yes we want to upgrade Justice but what are the things we want to let go of? Join Dr Sarah Lewis, Kam Stevens and Dan Reynolds as they discuss Justice 1.0, as part of a Linkedin Live event.

What are the top lessons we have learnt from training hundreds of Criminal justice professionals, internationally? We dive into this topic and talk about how we have integrated these lessons into our work, as we promote Justice 2.0, calling for an upgrade to Justice and an investment in people. Dan Reynolds and Kam Stevens join Dr Sarah Lewis in this session.

We held a linkedin Live event and wanted to share it with you. We discuss Justice 2.0 in a bit more detail and how you may be able to get involved. With Dr Lewis and Kam Stevens, we share our hopes and discuss some of the challenges we might face.

Justice 2.0 is a collective campaign to drive positive changes in the Criminal Justice System, calling for an upgrade to current thinking and acknowledging the need to raise awareness around Criminal Justice within our communities, so we can serve them effectively. It highlights the key ideas around the campaign, the rationale, the plan of action and some of the challenges.

Kam Stevens, Adam, Steve Farrell and Anita Dockley join Sarah Lewis to discuss our research in Hope in Probation. Alongside Jake Phillips, we delivered this project to uncover the state of play in our Probation Service around their experiences of hope. We wanted to consider how Probation can become more hopeful and capture the voices of staff and people on probation, in an authentic way.

We discuss the backstory of our Hope research, the key findings and the impact we want to achieve with this research.

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