Experiences of Co-victims of Homicide: Implications for Research and Practice
by Armour, Marilyn Peterson
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. 3(2): 109-124. Co-victims of homicide are a hidden and sparsely researched group whose needs, as crime victims, are neglected and subsumed by the state’s agenda for retributive justice. Likewise, their unique and distinct problems are given...
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Remorse and Neutralization Among Violent Male Offenders
by Presser, Lois
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Justice Quarterly. 20(4): 802-825. Expression of remorse by an offender to his or her victim represents healing in the aftermath of a crime. Thus, it is important to consider what may influence or impede remorse. This article analyzes interviews with 27 men who committed serious...
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Youth Justice Conferencing and Reoffending
by Hayes, Hennessey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Justice Quarterly. 20(4): 725-764. The literature on restorative justice and reoffending consists largely of comparative analyses of traditional and restorative interventions and suggests small but significant differences or no differences in reoffending. We gathered data from...
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Restitution and Restorative Justice
by Fields, Barry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Youth Studies Australia. 22(4): 44-51. Barry A. Fields examines the way the concept and process of restitution is evoked in legislation and used by the justice system in Australia as a response to youth crime. He extends discussion to the use of restitution in the discipline...
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Divine Justice
by Aitken, Jonathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) American Spactator. October. Pp. 42-43. What is justice? That sounds like the topic for a school essay. Yet in the marketplace of spiritual ideas, faith-based solutions and religious discussion, the question of justice—and an innovative answer to it—are moving up...
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Cultured Punishments: The Promise of Grid Group Theory
by Vaughan, Barry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Theoretical Criminology. 6(4): 411-431. Increasingly, criminologists have made reference to Mary Douglas’s writings on risk. Less frequently is it noted that Douglas’s work on risk is dependent upon a more fundamental classificatory scheme, what she calls...
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Crime and Peace: A Walk With Richard Quinney
by Tifft, Larry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Crime and Deliquency. 48 (2): 243-262. Two paths are inspired by Richard Quinney’s deep insights into self and society: a path that stimulates sociological imagination and helps us analyze the political economy of crime,and a path of personal and collective...
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Taking citizenship seriously: Social capital and criminal justice in a changing world
by Faulkner, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Criminal Justice. 3(3): 287-315. This article examines the ideas of citizenship, social capital and community, and of personal and social responsibility, which have become prominent in Great Britain since the election of the Labour Government in 1997, and also in a number of...
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Beyond the metaphor: Political violence, human rights and ‘new’ peacemaking criminology
by McEvoy, Kieran
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Theoretical Criminology. 7(3): 319-346. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article explores the relationship between human rights and criminological discourses concerning paramilitary abuses. The article begins with a critical introduction to peacemaking criminology....
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Sentencing in Crown Courts in England and Wales
by Rafferty, Anne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 12: S54-S58. Anne Rafferty is a judge of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court, Royal Courts of Justice, in the United Kingdom. In this essay she comments from her experience on the state of sentencing in Crown Courts in...
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The future of the Japanese criminal justice system
by Yoshida, Toshio
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 328-338. Toshio Yoshida begins this chapter with the observation that in many countries there have been developments aimed at socially constructive responses to criminal acts. In this...
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Implementing family group conferences in Belgium
by Vanfraechem, Inge
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 313-327. In recent years, family group conferencing (FGC) has begun to be implemented in Belgium. Noting this, Inge Vanfraechem points to differences between common law and legalistic...
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Anthropological reflections on restoring justice in Norway
by Hydle, Ida
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 296-312. In this paper, Ida Hydle approaches matters of criminal justice and restorative justice in Norway from the perspective of anthropology. Her approach has grown in part out of her...
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Positioning mediation in the criminal justice system: the Italian ‘justice of the peace’
by Mannozzi, Grazia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 284-295. Grazia Mannozzi asserts that the link between crime and punishment has weakened in the Italian criminal justice system. Punishment is no longer the inevitable consequence of the...
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Preparing the South African community for implementing a new restorative child justice system
by Mbambo, Buyi
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 271-283. At the time Buyi Mbambo and Ann Skelton were writing this chapter, South Africa did not have a separate statute for children accused of crimes. Following an official study by the...
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