CAAJ announces 2021 Student Design Competition
The Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ) invites architecture students to speculate issues regarding social unrest, systematic racism, discrimination, and violent protests in a design competition for a new Community Justice Centre.Society?s standard institutions and approaches to justice are being challenged in the context of these matters, according to the organization. The CAAJ states that the present court system, with long waits for trials, high rates of recidivism, harsh sentences for minor infractions, failure to rehabilitate offenders, and the overrepresentation of certain racial groups is one of these institutions being challenged.
New models are evolving that rethink how the criminal justice system operates. These models require a commensurate evolution in building typology that serves and symbolizes these changes while positively enhancing the connection between justice and community.
One example of this new typology is the Community Justice Centre. Community Justice Centres (CJCs) move justice away from the rigid hierarchy of the traditional courthouse into a more informal community setting. The CAAJ suggests that they bring together justice, health and social services for vulnerable accused people and their communities in order to provide a holistic, fair and integrated approach to the judicial process.
?CJCs improve outcomes by applying restorative approaches to justice that focus on addressing the root causes of the crime, repairing th...
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