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Rights-based Restorative Justice: Evaluating Compliance with International Standards.

Moore, Shannon
June 4, 2015

Source: (2009) Youth Justice. 9(1): 27-43.

The authors’ aim is to promote compliance with international legal standards by articulating intersections between young people’s human rights and restorative justice principles — for legal theorists through transdisciplinary thinking and for practitioners by introducing the Rights Based Restorative Practice Evaluation ToolKit developed through this conceptual framework (Moore, 2008). This comprehensive approach was developed within the Canadian legal, social policy and youth justice contexts. Notwithstanding potential bias stemming from cultural or political milieu, the authors argue that rights-based restorative justice could contribute to the advancement of ethical practice in many UN-member states attempting to adopt these common frameworks. (author’s abstract)

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