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Frank, Cheryl and Skelton, Ann. How Does Restorative Justice Address Human Rights and Due Process Issues?
In this chapter, Ann Skelton and Cheryl Frank explore risks to the human rights of victims and offenders in restorative justice processes. In the criminal ...
McEvoy, Kieran and Newburn, Tim. Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice
This book consists of a collection of essays exploring, from different angles, the intersection of criminology, conflict resolution, and restorative justice. ...
Borland, Rosilyne M. The Gacaca Tribunals and Rwanda after Genocide: Effective Restorative Community Justice or Further Abuse of Human Rights?
The genocide in Rwanda in the spring of 1994 was one of the world’s most horrific acts of collective violence. National and international attempts to deal with ...
Smith, Melodee. Restorative Justice is a Human Right: A Transformative Discourse Within UN Paradigms.
Some justice systems are not broken or flawed, but are rather working precisely the way they were designed to work against marginalized human beings, ...
Reimund, Mary Ellen. The Law and Restorative Justice: Friend or Foe? A Systematic Look at the Legal Issues in Restorative Justice.
In this paper, Mary Ellen Reimund discusses the role of lawyers and legal issues in relation to restorative justice in the adult criminal justice system. As ...
Verwoerd, Wilhelm. Toward a Response to Criticisms of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In this paper I begin by describing the main criticisms encountered by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These criticisms highlight the ...
Wichert, Tim. A Mennonite Human Rights Paradigm?
Mennonites are uneasy about human rights. We have not ignored them entirely, and sometimes use the language of rights when convenient. But human rights ...
Amstutz, Mark R.. Restorative Justice, Political Forgiveness, and the Possibility of Political Reconciliation
The essays in this collection explore different moral, legal, and institutional resources available in promoting national reconciliation in the aftermath of ...
Eriksson, Anna and McEvoy, Kieran. Restorative justice in transition: ownership, leardership, and 'bottom-up' human rights
In this chapter we wish to draw out the significance of a number of features of these programs which have not been fully developed elsewhere. In particular we ...
Cunneen, Chris. Exploring the relationship between repatriations, the gross violation of human rights and restorative justice
The relationship between reparations, responses to the gross violation of human rights and restorative justice is only recently finding a place in the broad ...
. The rights of the young person in the New Zealand youth justice family group conference.
The youth justice family group conference (FGC) is a statutory decision making process whereby the young person, their family/whanau, state officials and the ...
Problems with legal aid
from Chris LaHatte's blog Legal Rambling: What is the answer? Encourage more appropriate charges instead of over prosecution-always a problem. Then, if ...
Durmortier, Els. Neglecting due process for minors: A possible dark side of the restorative justice implementation?
Expressing skepticism about what he perceives to be the optimistic nature of restorative justice perspectives, Dumortier scrutinizes the language of ...
Parker, Lynette. The Use of Restorative Practices in Latin America
Several Latin American countries are looking for alternative methods for dealing with crime and conflict. This opening has spurred both government and civil ...
Van Ness, Daniel. Legislating for Restorative Justice
In this paper Daniel Van Ness addresses the topic of legislating for restorative justice.
Dignan, James. Restorative Justice and the Law: the case for an integrated, systemic approach
Dignan advocates the promotion of restorative justice (RJ) principles and outcomes for widely reforming the existing criminal justice system.
McElrea, FWM. Partners or Adversaries?
Address at JUST PEACE? Peace Making and Peace Building for the New Millennium an international conference held at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand. 24-28 ...
Rojas Mendoza, Dionisio. 2006. Design of a Restorative Justice Process: Inter-Sectoral Commission for Life and Human RIghts. Barrancabermeja (Colombia). Eastern Mennonite University. Conflict Transformation Program.
This article discusses the possible design of a restorative response to mass violence in Colombia.
von Holderstein Holtermann, Jakob. Outlining the Shadow of the Axe—On Restorative Justice and the Use of Trial and Punishment.
Most proponents of restorative justice admit to the need to find a well defined place for the use of traditional trial and punishment alongside restorative ...
Prichard, Jeremy. Net-widening and the diversion of young people from court: A longitudinal analysis with implications for restorative justice.
Internationally, many youth justice systems aim to divert young people from court through informal mechanisms, such as police cautions and restorative ...
Daly, Kathleen. Diversionary Conferences in Australia: A Reply to the Optimists and the Skeptics.
Daly explores four critiques of restorative justice. These inclusd (1) due process, (2) Anti-racist, (3) feminist, and (4) a potpourri. While noting the ...
Braithwaite, John. Standards for Restorative Justice.
Braithwaite discusses the benefits and the pitfalls of regulating restorative justice practices. One main concern is power imbalance and control by a ...
Van Ness, Daniel W. "Restorative Justice and International Human Rights."
Restorative justice theory offers a conceptual framework which may reconcile apparently inconsistent criminal justice norms and standards. The apparent ...
Lerman, David.. "Restoring Dignity, Effecting Justice."
Discusses the role of the restorative justice movement in providing human rights. Aims of the restorative justice movement; Example of cases wherein ...
Trepanier, Jean. "Restorative justice: A question of legitimacy."
Trepanier examines the question of legitimacy with respect to juvenile justice. Legitimacy refers to the question of whether the measure imposed on a juvenile ...
Braithwaite, John. Setting Standards for Restorative Justice
Three types of restorative justice standards are articulated: limiting, maximizing, and enabling standards. They are developed as multidimensional criteria for ...
Hudson, Barbara. Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence: Diversion or Effective Justice?
Although the last few years have seen considerable advances in the theoretical clarification of restorative justice as well as proliferation of programmes ...
Parmentier, Stephan. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Towards restorative justice in the field of human rights
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) conducted its work from 1995 to 1998. A vast amount of commentary has been generated on the TRC, ...
Kiss, Elizabeth. Restorative vs. Retributive Justice as Vehicles for a Human Rights Culture
Can justice be done without punishment? The idea of retributive justice denies this possibility, asserting that punishment is required to correct a moral ...
Akester, Kate. Restorative Justice, Victims' Rights and the Future
Noting that restorative justice has become established in juvenile justice in England following the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, Kate Akester ...
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