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     Western  judicial  procedures  tend  to  focus   upon
isolated  individuals and the laying of fault,  blame  and
guilt upon isolated individuals.  The community is seen as
the  arithmetic  sum  of the  isolated  individual  parts;
rather than as a fabric woven together in multiple, inter-
connected  ways.    The whole community is not seen  as  a
whole  which  transcends the arithmetic sum of  the  parts
into which it is analyzed by analysts who are  preoccupied
with elementary parts and linear relationships.

     Judicial procedures might be quite different if  they
were   based   upon  a  different  set   of   assumptions,
presuppositions,  approaches,  attitudes and beliefs which
are  taken  on faith.   What if the following  were  taken
seriously?

     1.  Individuals  are  conceived and  nurtured  within
communal  contexts  which  transcend the  individuals  who
participate in those communal contexts.

     2.  Individuals  are  as much the products  of  their
communal contexts; as communal contexts are the product of
individual  contributions to the the communal contexts  of
the individuals.

     3.  It  is impossible to trace with great  confidence
the  woven fabric of cause/effect relationships which lead
to criminal actions and to the subsequent consequences  of
criminal actions.

     4.  It is just as likely that addressing and changing
communal  contexts within which crimes occur will lead  to
the decrease of future criminal activity;  as it is likely
that  passing  judgement  and  imposing  punishments  upon
selected "criminals"  will lead to the decrease of  future
criminal activity.

     5.  Efforts  to  reduce  alienation,    estrangement,
ignorance  and  confusion are more likely to lead  to  the
decrease  of future criminal activity;  than will  efforts
which  will  naturally  lead  to  additional   alienation,
estrangement,   ignorance  and confusion on  the  part  of
"criminals."

     6.  In   instances  of   condemnation,    alienation,
estrangement  and excommunication,  all  the  participants
involved,   and/or dis-involved,  are affected;  not  just
those individuals who are rejected,  banished,   condemned
and/or excommunicated.

     Justice,  mercy and humility will not grow so long as
people  who might grow in them  are dominated  by  narrow-
minded assumptions, presuppositions, approaches, attitudes
and beliefs which are taken on faith---and are not  tested
against  the experiences of many different kinds of people
in many different kinds of contexts.

                                                                                                                               
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