Karen provides the KEP audience with an inspiring illustration of how Community Justice Scotland applied innovative tools to difficult social challenges

1. Reasons to be cheerful

2. Its not the despair, I can take the despair, it’s
the hope I can’t stand.
John Cleese

3. Proceed til apprehended.

4. Wicked Problems….

5. What is killing us in Scotland…

6. “The challenges we face converge, intertwine and often
remain largely beyond our understanding. Most of us
suspect that the “experts” don’t really know what’s going
on and that as a species we’ve released forces that are
neither managed nor manageable.”
Thomas Homer-Dixon
(Paper by Prof Phil Hanlon University of Glasgow 2009)

7. The Ingenuity Gap:
the space between problems that arise and our ability to solve
them
Scholar Thomas Homer Dixon describes the “ingenuity gap”
today as growing at an alarming rate (in business, industry,
education, the environment and world affairs).

11. Meaning and purpose?

12. For the creation of health....
....the social and physical environment must be:
• Comprehensible
• Manageable
• Meaningful
• ......or the individual would experience chronic
stress

14. ‘Change continues throughout the life cycles,
but changes for better or worse are always
possible. It is continuing potential for change
that means that no time is a person invulnerable
to every possible adversity, and at no time is a
person impermeable to favourable influence.’
(Bowlby, 1965).

15. Redemption; The action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange
for payment, or clearing a debt.

16. Epidemics seldom end with miracle cures. Most of the time in the history of
medicine, the best way to end disease was to build a better sewer and get people to
wash their hands. ‘Merely chipping away at the problem around the edges’ is
usually the very best thing to do with a problem; keep chipping away patiently and,
eventually, you get to its heart. To read the literature on crime before it dropped is to
see a kind of dystopian despair: we’d have to end poverty, or eradicate the ghettos,
or declare war on the broken family, or
the like, in order to end the crime wave. The truth is, a series of small actions and
events ended up eliminating a problem that seemed to hang over everything. There
was no miracle cure, just the intercession of a thousand small sanities.
Adam Gopnik
The New Yorker
A thousand small sanities

17. What works?
What Works
Community supervision
with support
Diversion of young
people
Quality assured
CBT based on RNR
principles
Self-efficacy and life
skills development
Intensive drug
treatment
Skilled, persistent, and
empathetic
practitioners
Alcohol
interventions
Mental health
interventions
Unpaid work
Peer and family
interventions
Housing
interventions
Strength-based
interventions
Mentoring
Holistic
resettlement
Employment
programmes
Housing
Restorative
justice
Short-term sentences
Intensive supervision
without support
Boot Camps / Scared Straight
Stand-alone
education programmes
Sign-posting only
Non-specific counselling for
emotion management
Simply raising awareness
of effects of substance misuse
or crime only without coping skills
Shame or guilt
(negative self-image)
What doesn’t work

18. Change is hard

19. “There is nothing more difficult to carryout, nor more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous to conduct than to initiate a new
order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by
the old order and only lukewarm defenders in all those who profit
by the new order”
Machiavelli, The Prince
#SmartJustice

22. “How selfish soever a man may be supposed, there are
evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the
fortunes of others and render their happiness necessary to him,
though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing
it.”
Adam Smith 1759

23. Leadership