The people are the police: Building trust with Aboriginal communities in contemporary Canadian society.
by Chrismas, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Canadian Public Administration. 55(3):451-470. Policing is an important element in the spectrum of services that impact living conditions, quality of life and social justice for Aboriginal communities. The ultimate policing goal should be to contribute to the realization of...
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Teacher understanding of curricular and pedagogical decision-making process at an urban charter school.
by Cuevas, Rodolfo Jr.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Dissertation. Degree of Doctor of Education. Loyola Marymount University, This qualitative study featured two research endeavors. The first was a narrative inquiry of six teachers at Weedpatch Charter School as they understood curricular and pedagogical decisionmaking. These...
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Survey of Tribal Court effectiveness studies.
by Fortson, Ryan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Alaska Justice Forum. 31(3-4):1, 15-20. Alaska Native tribes have used sentencing circles and other cultural traditions to address problems involving tribal members for centuries. This way of dealing with disputes in a restorative and reparative manner eventually gave way to an...
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Student misconduct and isolation from the school environment: A study of student, teacher, and administrator perceptions of school discipline at an urban middle school.
by Rubio, Armando
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Dissertation. Degree of Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership. California State University, Los Angeles. The study focused on school discipline and climate while exploring differences in perceptions of students, teachers, and administrators about school discipline in an...
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Strategies for preventing neighborhood violence: Toward bringing collective efficacy into social work practice.
by Beck, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Journal of Community Practice. 20:225–240 Neighborhood violence has profound effects on issues associated with social work practice, such as health, safety, and the positive development of children, youth, and families. This article brings together the literatures in...
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The spiritual dimension of social justice.
by Gabel, Peter
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Journal of Legal Education.63:673-688. Among our efforts is participating in and providing support to the development of the restorative justice movement, a remarkable attempt to shift the framework of the criminal law away from identifying the crime, finding the wrong-doer, and...
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Social class rank, essentialism, and punitive judgement.
by Kraus, Michael W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105(2):247-261. Recent evidence suggests that perceptions of social class rank influence a variety of social cognitive tendencies, from patterns of causal attribution to moral judgment. In the present studies we tested the hypotheses...
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Shifting school culture.
by Alfred, Rita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Tikkun. Winter:48-50. My job was to create a paradigm shift within the school context by introducing restorative justice as an alternative to the traditional discipline system. After my training with Roca I returned renewed and ready to try this new way of working with student...
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Shame, angry judges, and the social media effect.
by Goodman, Maxine D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Catholic University Law Review. 65:589-623. This Article addresses the intersection between judicial anger and attempts by judicial sanctioning tribunals to correct the behavior with public sanctions. Disciplinary tribunals tend to impose public sanctions as harsh discipline for...
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Sectoral aid and urban crime victimization in Papua New Guinea.
by Gutherie, Gerard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal. 17:16-34. The purpose of AusAID’s 2003-2009 Law and Justice Sector Program (LJSP) was to develop the capacity of Papua New Guinea’s law and justice agencies to implement consistent policy, priorities and plans. This...
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A social justice perspective on bullying.
by Brooks, Keeshawna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Communıqué. 43(2):1, 4-5. Bullying as a barrier to school resources and academic achievement (Polanin & Vera, 2013), along with its moral and power-based underpinnings, becomes an issue aptly viewed through the lens of social justice. In this article, we begin by...
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Cognitive systems for revenge and forgiveness.
by McCullough, Michael E
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Behavioural and Brain Sciences. 36:1-58. Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our ancestors regularly faced such adaptive problems (including...
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Room for me? — An analysis of whether mediation is a viable solution to school bullying.
by Palmer, Angelique
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. 16:221-235. This Article will review recent efforts to utilize mediation as a solution to bullying, and evaluate whether common approaches to its use and implementation have proven to be an effective solution to the bullying epidemic. Part...
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Restoring lives, restoring justice.
by Neuhausm, Suzanne E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal. 3:156-160. Victim-Offender Dialogue and victim-sensitive offender programming is controversial. It is something that those not intimately connected to the crime may never get to understand, but perhaps the system needs to get out of the...
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Restorative justice programs in higher education.
by Blas Pedreal, Marlenee Lizeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) The Vermont Connection. 35:38-46. Numerous university campuses have adopted the practice of restorative justice to address conduct, behavior, and conflict (Karp, 2013). Currently, restorative justice teachings and trainings implement programs that are committed to student...
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