Holistic Restorative Justice: A Response to McCold
by Mackey, Virginia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Contemporary Justice Review 3(4): 451-457 As a social movement, restorative justice has gone through several phases ranging from visioning to implementation. It is now in a strategic phase. As we decide how we want this phase to proceed, we need to keep in mind that there are...
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Rock and Roll, Restorative Justice, and the Continuum of the Real World: A Response to “Purismâ€? in Operationalizing Restorative Justice
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Contemporary Justice Review 3(4): 459-477 As restorative justice has blossomed into a social movement, it has begun to be defined in ways that appear to be contradictory to the original, basic principles of restorative justice. With new models of restorative justice such as...
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Navajo Peacemaking: Implications for Adjudication-based Systems of Justice
by Yazzie, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Contemporary Justice Review v.1: 123-131 Navajo Peacemaking works on principles of justice that take into account the needs of all involved in a dispute or harm situation. Its methods of conflict resolution seek to get to the core of the “fuzzy‿ thinking that allows...
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Family Group Conferencing in Child Welfare: Lessons from a Demonstration Project
by Hudson, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services 81(4). A child-welfare family group conferencing (FGC) project that served families who were referred for child abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment issues is reported. The stages and mechanisms used to implement the...
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Social Work and the Pursuit of Justice through Mediation
by Severson, Margaret M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Social Work 40(5). Many states have enacted legislation that authorizes the use of alternative dispute resolution methods to resolve civil, family, and criminal disputes. Originally used to relieve crowded court dockets, which were an injustice to all parties involved,...
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Justice de Proximité: The Growth of ‘Houses of Justice’ and Victim/Offender Mediation in France: A Very UnFrench Legal Response?
by Crawford, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Social & Legal Studies 9(1): 29-53. Initiatives in mediation and reparation have developed significantly across diverse European countries, none more so than in France over the last decade. This article seeks to situate and explain the recent growth in France of the...
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In the Belly of the Beast? Exploring the Dilemmas of State-sponsored Restorative Justice
by Boyes-Watson, Carolyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Contemporary Justice Review 2(3): 261-281 The ideal of restorative justice puts community at the center of the justice process. Paradoxically, the state is a key actor in the promotion of restorative justice reforms. As with previous criminal justice reforms, the intentions and...
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Reflections on the Purist and Maximalist Models of Restorative Justice
by Boyes-Watson, Carolyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Contemporary Justice Review 3(4): 441-450 Among the major concerns of those who are interested in furthering restorative justice is whether there is a place for coercion of any kind in the healing process. If our answer to this question is in the negative, we need to keep watch...
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Victimological Developments in the World During the Past Three Decades: A Study of Comparative Victimology, Part 2
by Schneider, Hans J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 45(5). Whereas the immediate psychical and social damage inflicted on victims had already been established in the 1970’s and 1980’s, the insight has been gained only during the 1990’s that...
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Victim Redress and Victim-Offender Reconciliation in Theory and Practice: Some Personal Reflections
by Fattah, Ezzat A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Tokyo, Japan: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders Although the distress of some victims might be so overwhelming that they will demand the harshest possible penalty for their victimizer, this cannot be said of the...
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Victims of Crime Research Series: The Role of the Victim in the Criminal Process: Literature Review — 1989 to 1999
by Young, Alan N
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Ottowa ON, Canada: Canada Department of Justice. This literature review focuses on the role of the victim within the criminal justice system and what types of rights, such as participation, they should have in the process. This review is divided into six sections. The first...
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Emergence of Community Justice
by Maloney, Dennis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Issues of Democracy 6(1). In Deschutes County and a few other jurisdictions across the United States, a group of judicial officials has teamed up with local elected officials, legislative representatives, and private citizens to acknowledge the criminal justice system’s...
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Community Involvement in Corrections in Hong Kong
by Kin-man, Tai
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Tokyo, Japan: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders The paper focuses on corrections under the penal jurisdiction of the Correctional Services Department, as well as the community-based corrections under the Social...
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Challenges and Possibilities Program: Increasing Social Responsibility Among Inmates
by Scott, Mike
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) CTM-Corrections Technology & Management 5(5). The program, founded by two teachers at the institution, is 10-weeks long, with capacity for 15-20 inmates. It is open to all men at the institution, but those who apply must be approved by Security and Social Services through a...
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Participation of the Public and Victims for More Effective Administration in the Treatment of Offenders
by Norapoompipat, Pornpit
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Tokyo, Japan: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders This paper on the participation of the public and victims in the treatment of offenders addresses the participation of the public in institutional and community-based...
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