An Outcome Evaluation of a Restorative Justice Alternative to Incarceration.
by Bonta, James
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Contemporary Justice Review. 5(4): 319-338. Restorative justice has become an increasingly popular alternative to traditional applications of criminal justice. The emphasis on victim needs and the personalizing of conflict resolution offers an alternative choice for those...
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Evaluation as Peacebuilding?: Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes
by Mika, Harry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Contemporary Justice Review. 5(4): 339-349. An evaluation approach that is collaborative and elicitive may well serve as a catalyst for transforming relationships of power, standing in stark contrast to more conventional and staid evaluation practices that are techinical in...
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Working With Male Batterers: A Restorative-Strenghts Perspective.
by Van Wormer, Katherine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services. Sept-Dec: 557. The Duluth model of batterer intervention is based on a feminist critical theory paradigm that makes sense from the point of view of the victim/survivor. Male batterers in treatment, however, may...
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Transforming the Punishment Environment: Understanding Public Views of What Should be Accomplished at Sentencing
by Doob, Anthony
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Canadian Journal of Criminology. 42(3): 323-340. Canada does not have a sensible and defensible sentencing policy. The problems with sentencing are much more serious than the often repeated mantra that “sentences are not harsh enough.” Most Canadians are intelligent...
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Improvised justice: Constitution vs. Reality in South Africa
by Hootnick, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) American Scholar. 72(1): 53. In this paper, Adam Hootnick reflects on the realities of formal and informal justice structures in South Africa. A new constitution was enacted in 1996 in South Africa. While it borrows substantially from liberal democratic ideas in the...
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Adversarial Injustice: Questioning Limits
by Carson, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Western Criminology Review. 4(2): 124-133. Interviewing, and then examining in court, children who report that they have been abused is difficult. Various reforms have been introduced in different countries to ameliorate the problems. But should we be reforming a rotten system?...
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Welcome Home? Examining the “Reentry Court” Concept from a Strengths-based Perspective.”
by Maruna, Shadd
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Western Criminology Review. 4(2): 91-107. The idea of a reentry court for ex-convicts returning to the community is an important new idea, but the premise behind it is rather familiar. Most of the modesl developed for reentry courts are based on what former Attorney General...
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A reconciliation project with Ruandese Hutu and Tutsi.
by Patfoort, Pat
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Eighteenth General IPRA (International Peace Research Association) conference, held at Tampere, Finland, 5-9 August. According to Pat Patfoort, many Hutu and Tutsi refugees from Rwanda live in Belgium. In the late 1990s, Patfoort and others began working...
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The role of reconciliation in changing inter-communal accommodations.
by Kriesberg, Louis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Eighteenth General IPRA (International Peace Research Association) conference, held at Tampere, Finland, 5-9 August. Terrible conflicts often occur between peoples about how they should live together in the same country or in neighboring counties....
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Repair or Revenge: Victims and Restorative Justice.
by Strang, Heather
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Claredon Studies in Criminology. Oxford and New York. Oxford University Press. As Heather Strang comments at the beginning of her book, the criminal justice system as currently organized and administered in most countries ill serves victims and offenders. Hence, she sets out to...
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Implementation Evaluation of the Juvenile Justice Reform Provisions of 1998; Part Two: Case Studies of New or Changed Juvenile Justice System Processes
by Lavery, Timothy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Chicargo, IL: Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. This report presents three case studies of juvenile justice processes that were changed or created due to Illinois’ Juvenile Justice Reform Provisions of 1998 (Public Act 90-590). The featured change of the Juvenile...
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Implementation Evaluation of the Juvenile Justice Reform Provisions of 1998; Part One: Surveys of Juvenile Justice Professionals
by Lavery, Timothy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Chicargo, IL: Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. This report presents findings from a survey of juvenile justice professionals in Illinois in order to determine whether the guiding philosophy (“balance and restorative justice”) of the Illinois Juvenile Justice...
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Comprehensive Restorative Justice: An Overview of the Relationships Among Restorative Justice, Quality of Life, and Offender Rehabilitation
by Williams, D. J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Offender Programs Report. 6(5):67-68, to 75. This article examines the natural linkages between restorative justice, quality of life, and offender rehabilitation in an attempt to provide an understanding of the connections and strengthen collaboration between community and...
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Participants’ Attitudes in the Utah Juvenile Victim-Offender Mediation Program.
by Elton, Kathy M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Juvenile and Family Court Journal. 53(1): 37-45. This study examined the attitudes of participants in Utah’s Juvenile Court Victim-Offender Mediation Program (VOMP) and compared these findings with those of other published evaluations. The Utah VOMP began in 1994 and is...
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Juvenile Justice.
by Appleby Jr., E E
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Juvenile Justice. 3(1). These articles examine the restorative model of juvenile justice, the community-based aftercare initiative of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the use of satellite teleconferencing for training juvenile justice and child...
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