A better deal for fraud victims: Research into victims’ needs and experiences.
by Button, Mark
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) London: National Fraud Authority. This report adds to a growing body of research by presenting new findings from surveys conducted in Summer 2009 on the largest group of fraud victims in the UK to date. Using face-to-face interviews, focus groups and telephone interviews about...
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Victim offender mediation programs in Texas.
by Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Austin, TX: Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. This report is written in response to H.B. No. 2291, relating to a study of established victim offender mediation programs in Texas’ juvenile probation departments. Section I of this report provides general background...
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Victim impact: Listen and learn.
by California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime. This 32-hour program shows offenders the impact of their crimes on their victims. Units comprising this course are: getting started; introduction to victim impact; property crime; assault; robbery; hate and bias;...
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Youth accountability boards. How prosecutors are engaging communities to respond to low-level juvenile offending.
by Lynch, Alexandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) New York: Center for Court Innovation. What are these boards? A youth accountability board recruits,scr eens and trains volunteers from a designated neighborhood to mete out sanctions for low-level offenses. These volunteers meet with a young person who has committed an...
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Sequencing the administration of justice to enable the pursuit of peace. Can the ICC play a role in complementing restorative justice?
by Murithi, Timothy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) IJR Policy Brief, No. 1. Wynberg, South Africa:Institute for Justice and Reconcilation. This Policy Brief will argue that there are a number of provisions within the Rome Statute which enable the ICC to sequence its interventions in a way that complements efforts to promote...
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An empirical study on restorative affecting factors for penal mediation — A restorative justice perspective.
by Chuen-Jim Sheu, Jacqueline
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Crime and Criminal Justice International. 9(9). Penal mediation has a long history in Taiwan. It is part of local autonomy administration and has the function of auxiliary justiceã€restorationã€diversion and high acceptance by the public. They are two purposes for this...
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A study on the content of Atayal traditional concepts of justice.
by Chuen-Jim Sheu
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Crime and Criminal Justice International. 10(4). Aboriginal literature have shown that aboriginals around the world usually possess particular cultures, and used religion or tribal leaders to peacefully resolve conflicts or crime. Braithwaite (1999) pointed out that, we ought to...
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Restorative practices in Hungary — Transforming schools and prisons.
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Restorative Practices E-Forum. 14 May In April 2010 Vidia Negrea, director of Community Service Foundation (CSF) Hungary, provided an introductory training in facilitating restorative conferences for four different youth group homes in Budapest. This is just the latest...
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The Afghan Peace Jirga: Ensuring that Women are at the Peace Table.
by Hassan, Palwasha
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) PeaceBrief. 29. United States Institute of Peace In summary, the changing sociopolitical reality and the breakthrough in the perceived gender roles are bringing women to new positions of responsibility and influence around the world and also in Afghanistan. Now, more than ever,...
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An empirical assessment of the process of restorative justice.
by Shih-Ya Kuo, Jacqueline
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Journal of Criminal Justice. 38(3): 318–328. This study involved an empirical assessment of restorative justice processes with an application of a theoretical model proposed by Presser and Van Voorhis (2002). Their model identified three common procedural activities...
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Does Forum Sentencing Reduce Re-Offending?
by Jones, Craig
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Crime and Justice Bulletin. No. 129. Sydney NSW: New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Forum Sentencing, based on the concept of restorative justice, is an alternative court sentencing procedure used by the New South Wales (NSW) courts since September 2005....
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Shifting the focus: Restorative justice and sex work.
by Lewis, Jacqueline
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 52(3):285-301. In recent years, governments have taken up the concept of restorative justice (RJ) and added what they refer to as RJ practices to their sentencing arsenal. The manner in which these practices are taken up and...
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La justice réparatrice: Une aproche complémentaire des questions de justice pénale.
by Hindle, Karen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Canada: Parliamentary Research Branch. La justice réparatrice consiste en une série de principes concernant la façon dont le système de justice devrait sanctionner les activités criminelles. Il n’existe pas de définition communément admise de la...
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Restorative justice responses to sexual assault.
by Achilles, Mary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Applied Research Forum. Harrisburg,PA: National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women. A large international literature promotes restorative justice options as satisfying and empowering to crime victims. This paper examines restorative justice for sexual assault from...
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Retributive and restorative justice.
by Wenzel, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Law and Human Behaviour The emergence of restorative justice as an alternative model to Western, court-based criminal justice may have important implications for the psychology of justice. It is proposed that two different notions of justice affect responses to rule-breaking:...
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