Jennifer Jean Langdon - Dispute, Harm, Crime, and Conflict: Narrative Positioning in Justice Practice

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Erin Ogilvie
Erin Ogilvie
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Daniel Rothbart
Daniel Rothbart
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Sandra Cheldelin
Sandra Cheldelin
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Jennifer Jean Langdon - Dispute, Harm, Crime, and Conflict: Narrative Positioning in Justice Practice
Event Date:

November 30, 2006 3:00PM through 5:00PM

Event Location: Truland Bldg., Room 666A George Mason University, Arlington Campus
Topics of Interest: Narrative, Justice, Narrative
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This dissertation describes the changing discourse surrounding conflict resolution as justice-practice.  By redefining crime in various ways - as disputes, harms, and conflicts - conflict resolution and restorative justice practitioners construct alternative narratives of crime.  Positioning theory is used as a tool to analyze practitioner narratives of community mediation, victim offender mediation and community conferencing practice.  These alternative practices are understood as primarily discursive interventions, providing participants with narrative agency to recreate their identities in the aftermath of wrongdoing.  Thus the malignant positioning of offender and victims inherent in criminal court processing is counteracted. .

Dissertation Committee:

Daniel Rothbart , Ph.D., (Chair), Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Sandra Cheldelin, Ed.D., Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Devon Johnson, Ph.D., School of Public Policy, GMU
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