Get connected with the Crime & Community Justice Group
The CCJG Activity Group Network was launched early in 2008 and is available to any and all groups of Friends engaged in any kind of activity related to the criminal justice system and the people it affects.
The Network is carefully designed to complement Quakers in Criminal Justice (the informal network offering mutual support for individual Quakers working in various branches of the criminal justice system), and offers a way for groups of Friends to be in touch with one another and with ourselves. It gives links to other bodies such as:
- Churches’ Criminal Justice Forum: an ecumenical body, part of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, which holds twice-yearly open networking meetings
- Restorative Justice Consortium: a national body that promotes the use of restorative justice in the criminal justice system and elsewhere.
- Circles UK: the new national umbrella body for Circles of Support and Accountability around the country.
Contact is primarily via an email distribution list; we also offer to send speakers to local group events and to help the Network host an annual event at Friends House if they would like to do that.
There are currently ten groups on the Network, along with some of our partners such as Quakers in Criminal Justice and Quaker Prison Ministers Group. In some instances Friends have come together around a shared concern or specific area of action; other groups are appointed by area or local meetings. We hope the Network will inspire Friends to create specialist groups such as perhaps a Quaker magistrates group.
Contact:
Paula Harvey
paulah@quaker.org.uk
020 7663 1036
