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Restorative Justice in Prisons: Two Examples.

Van Ness, Daniel W
June 4, 2015

Source: (2005) Presentation at Ancillary Meeting #40, Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, April 24, Bangkok, Thailand. Downloaded 14 October 2005.

Before I describe two examples of restorative justice programmes
operating in prisons in a number of countries, let me make one cautionary
observation. Trying to run restorative justice programmes in a prison setting
raises a number of issues that have been discussed since early days in the
movement about how well restorative justice can be applied in the justice system. (excerpt)

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