Judging Victims: Why We Stigmatize Survivors, and How They Reclaim Respect
by Dunn, Jennifer L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. Dunn explores the shifting perceptions over time of victims as blameworthy, blameless, pathetic, or heroic figures. She also links those images to their real-world consequences, demonstrating that they dominate the ways in which people...
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The Power of Forgiveness
by Turner, Ken
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Sydney: New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd The Power of Forgiveness is the story of how one father chose to forgive the murderer of his daughter even though justice through the court system failed and outside influences called for justice through retribution. Ken...
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Restorative Justice Dialogue: An Essential Guide for Research and Practice
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) New York: Springer Publishing Company This book provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding restorative justice and its application worldwide to numerous social issues. Backed by reviews of empirical research and case examples, the authors describe the core restorative...
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Restorative Circles in Schools: Building Community and Enhancing Learning
by Costello, Bob
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Bethlehem: International Institute for Restorative Practices Restorative Circles in Schools is an in-depth guidebook on the use of the circle, an essential restorative practice for schools. The book includes a wealth of practical knowledge on circles, drawn from the experience...
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Managing a Mediation Process
by Smith, Amy L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Managing a Mediation Process offers an overview of the process of mediating interstate and intrastate conflicts. Each of its six chapter covers a different step in the process, identifying what needs to be done at that step and...
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The Spirit and Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace
by Porter, Thomas W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Nashville: Upper Room Books The Spirit and Art of Conflict Transformation is an overview of the theology, theory, and practice of conflict transformation…For me, the work of conflict transformation is not the work of putting Band-Aids on the wounds of conflict, or...
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Drug courts and pre-trial diversion. Testimony before the U.S. House Domestic Policy Subcommittee.
by Roman, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Urban Instittute Expanding drug courts to all 1.5 million drug-involved offenders would cost more than $13 billion annually, but would return more than $40 billion in benefits, John Roman told a House of Representatives subcommittee. The criminal justice system can maximize the...
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Trying times for Rwanda: reevaluating gacaca courts in post-genocide reconciliation.
by Longman, Timothy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Harvard International Law Review. 32(2):48-52. In practice, however, the benefits of trials in Rwanda remain unclear, while their negative consequences are substantial. In this essay, I draw on an extensive field research from a project conducted in Rwanda between 2001 and 2006...
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Collective Memory, International Law, and Restorative Social Processes After Conflagration: The Holocaust.
by Gallant, Mary J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) International Criminal Justice Review. 20(3):265-279. ollective memory after war, atrocity, and genocide may continue to bind surviving generations in a vortex of violence because remembrance of the cruelty is so vivid. Yet, collective memory as it was conceptualized originally...
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Building peace, seeking justice: A population-based survey on attitudes about accountability and social reconstruction. The Central African Republic.
by Vinck, Patrick
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Berkeley, CA: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkley. DECADES OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY, state fragility, mismanagement, and a series of armed conflicts have led the Central African Republic (CAR) to a state of widespread violence and poverty. This study provides...
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Lessons Learned in Implementing the First Four Tribal Wellness Courts.
by Gottlieb, Karen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Washington, DC: US. Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. The “lessons learned” presented in this paper were drawn from the experiences of the first four tribal wellness courts (drug courts): Hualapai (Arizona), the Blackfeet (Montana), Fort Peck...
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Process and Outcome Evaluations in Four Tribal Wellness Courts.
by Gottlieb, Karen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Washington, DC: US. Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. The four tribal drug courts are the Blackfeet Alternative Court (Montana), the Fort Peck Community Wellness Court (Montana), the Hualapai Wellness Court (Arizona), and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Drug...
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Process and Outcome Evaluations of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Drug Court.
by Gottlieb, Karen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Washington, DC: US. Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. This report presents the methodology, findings, and recommendations of an evaluation of the drug court of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, located in southwestern Alabama near the Florida border. The...
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Process and Outcome Evaluations of the Blackfeet Alternative Court.
by Gottlieb, Karen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Washington, DC: US. Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. This report presents the methodology, findings, and recommendations of an evaluation of the Blackfeet Alternative Court, a pilot program of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana that provided substance-abusing...
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Whose memory? Whose justice? A meditation on how and when and if to reconcile.
by Dorfman, Ariel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) The 8th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. Linder Auditorium, Johannesburg, South Africa. 31 July. It was only after Salvador Allende died in a military coup in 1973, only after I went into exile, when I started to wander this earth like a makwerwere, that the name of Mandela...
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