Evaluation of the Queensland Murri Court: Final report
by Morgan, Anthony
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Technical and Background Paper no. 39. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. There have been a variety of innovative court models introduced, piloted and implemented across Australia to improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in dealing with specific...
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Building bridges in Liverpool: Exploring the use of family group conferences for Black and minority ethnic children and their families.
by O'Shaughnessy, Ruth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) British Journal of Social Work. 40(7): 2034-2049. There is little national or international research that examines how Family Group Conferences (FGCs) are being used with, or viewed by, black and minority ethnic (BME) children and families. This paper describes the...
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The rural judicial facilitators program in Nicaragua – an exemplary model of restorative justice?
by Westerlund, Sara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) MFS-Report No. 43. UMEÃ… UNIVERSITY Department of Law. Our purpose is to study the Rural Judicial Facilitators Program in the light of the restorative justice theory, and examine whether it complies with relevant fundamental legal principles. This will be done in three...
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Linking informal social control and restorative justice: moving social disorganization theory beyond community policing.
by Beck, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Contemporary Justice Review. 13(4):355 – 369. Much of what is at the heart of social disorganization theory’s approach to neighborhood crime prevention has been ignored in favor of policies that are more closely associated with deterrence and rational choice...
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Responding to academic dishonesty in universities: a restorative justice approach.
by MacAlister, David M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Contemporary Justice Review. 13(4):443-453. The implementation of restorative approaches in schools has been commonly seen in elementary and high schools, yet the development of restorative approaches in post-secondary institutions has not been fully explored. In respect to...
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The recent development of restorative social work practices in Hong Kong.
by Wong, Dennis S. W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) International Social Work. 54(5):101-716. Restorative justice has grown rapidly in the last two decades with the emergence of new practice approaches in juvenile justice and school social work. This article briefly analyses the backgrounds leading to the emergence of restorative...
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The concept and challenges of collective reparations.
by Guillerot, Julie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) The Rabat Report. New York: The International Center for Transitional Justice. After transitions from armed conflict or repression, societies are often confronted by legacies of systematic or widespread human rights violations whose perpetrators remain unaccountable and whose...
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Connections and disconnections: Assessing evidence, knowledge and practices in response to rape.
by Brown, Jennifer
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) London: Government Equalities Office. This document summarises a much longer report structured in terms of the specific questions the review was asked to address and assessing the strength of evidence currently available. Here the findings are presented through a set of key...
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Watching a bargain unravel? A panel study of victims’ attitudes about transitional justice in Cape Town, South Africa.
by Backer, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) International Journal of Transitional Justice. IJTJ (2010) doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijq015 . Despite the extended nature of many transitional justice processes, collection of relevant longitudinal primary data, especially at an individual level, is rarely observed as a means of...
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Te Hurihanga Pilot: Evaluation report.
by Warren, Julie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Wellington: Ministry of Justice. Te Hurihanga (The Turning Point) is a Ministry of Justice response to the problem of youth offending. It is a three-year pilot that reflects concerns about trends in youth offending and lack of suitable options open to the judiciary when dealing...
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Reconciliation and architecture of commitment. Sequencing peace in Bougainville.
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University E Press. It has been a peace that has progressively become more resilient since 1998. The sequential sustaining of the peace has been patient—what Volker Boege (2006) has called a slow-food approach to peacebuilding. One...
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Indigenous youth and restorative justice in Western Australia.
by Potter, Deen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Journal of Judicial Administration. 20(2):92-105. The importance of understanding emotion in dispute resolution is increasingly being recognised in the literature reflecting upon current legal practices and legal education. Recently, the Australian academic Michael King pointed...
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A multilevel examination of the antecedents of procedural, distributive, and restorative justice expectations and related outcomes in the context of strong preferential selection in South Africa.
by Ramsay, Lauren Jill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Dissertation. Michigan State University. This quasi-experimental study expands our understanding of justice theory dimensions and their antecedents and outcomes by examining attitudes and experiences in a sample of potential job applicants in South Africa. This work extends...
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The implementation of restorative justice in Iceland: A comparison of police- and expert-led conferencing
by Hafsteinsson, Hafsteinn Gunnar
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Dissertation. Conflict Resolution Institute. University of Denver. On first of October 2006 the Ministry of Justice in Iceland launch a restorative justice pilot project. Building on the pilot project data, this thesis evaluates the implementation of restorative justice into the...
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Indigenous sentencing courts and partner violence: perspectives of court practitioners and elders on gender power imbalances during the sentencing hearing.
by Marchetti, Elena
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 43(2):263-281. One of the most common forms of violence in Indigenous communities is violence between intimate partners. Indigenous sentencing courts and specialist family violence courts (as well as mainstream courts) are used...
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