Adolescent transfer, developmental maturity, and adjudicative competence: an ethical and justice policy inquiry.
by Sellers, Brian G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 99(2):435-487. Based on the empirical evidence, automatic adolescent transfer to adult criminal court poses significant processing, treatment, and recidivism problems for youths, especially when issues of developmental maturity and...
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What works with adolescents? Family connections and involvement in interventions for adolescent problem behaviours.
by Robinson, Elly
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse Briefing Number 16. Adolescence is an important period of growth in which healthy transition from dependence on family ideally occurs, particularly in Western societies. This may be perceived, however, as meaning that young people...
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On the efficacy of victim-offender mediation in cases of partnership violence in Austria, or: Men don’t get better, but women get stronger: Is it still true? Outcomes of an empirical study.
by Pelikan, Christa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) European Journal of Criminal Policy Research. 16(1):49-67. Put in a nutshell, the core finding of this study reads thus: The efficacy of VOM in cases partnership violence is to a large part due to the empowerment of the women victims, but partly, albeit to a smaller percentage,...
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Restorative Practices in Schools – A progress report.
by Hamilton, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Presentation at Restorative Practices in Schools: The Way Forward. 20 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia. This PowerPoint is from a workshop describing a systems approach to the implementation of restorative practices in the school setting. The workshop description...
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Peer mediation in secondary school.
by Stern, Fred
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Presentation at Restorative Practices in Schools: The Way Forward. 20 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia. This workshop provides an overview of peer mediation in secondary schools where the presenter has worked with teachers/students in this program since 1990. What’s...
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Bumps, knocks and potholes on the restorative roadway.
by Broomfield, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Presentation at Restorative Practices in Schools: The Way Forward. 20 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia. This PowerPoint presentation is from a workshop exploring presenter’s experience with implementing restorative practices in the school environment. It includes both...
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Teacher talk, restorative practice, and tricky kids.
by Blair, Geoff
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Presentation at Restorative Practices in Schools: The Way Forward. 20 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia. This PowerPoint presentation was from a workshop exploring the topic of teacher language. The workshop description was “A practical and theoretical session on the...
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Near Chaos to Near Calm.
by Buckeridge, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Presentation at Restorative Practices in Schools: The Way Forward. 20 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia. Aldercourt P.S., Frankston North, is on a journey of improvement in student social wellbeing, self esteem and resilience. Changes in behaviour management practices have...
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Multicultural Challenges for Restorative Justice: Mediators’ Experiences from Norway and Finland .
by Albrecht, Berit
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. 11(1):3-24. Since today’s civil society in the Nordic countries is multi-ethnic, participants and mediators in restorative justice procedures often have diverse cultural backgrounds. This can lead to...
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Restorative justice: An International Perspective.
by Armstrong, Marg
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Presentation at Restorative Practices in Schools: The Way Forward. 20 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia. This PowerPoint highlights the use of restorative practices in schools in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, New...
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Peer mediation in primary school.
by Stern, Fred
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Presentation at Restorative Practices in Schools: The Way Forward. 20 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia. PowerPoint presentation from a workshop giving an overview of the use of peer mediation in primary...
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Competency courts: A creative solution for restoring competency to the competency process.
by Finkle, Michael J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 27: 767-786. It is well accepted that jail is a poor setting for treating the acutely mentally ill, yet the number of mentally ill persons in jail has increased such that Los Angeles County Jail and Riker’s Island in New York house more...
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Gender differences in effects of teen courts on delinquency: A theory-guided evaluation.
by Wilson, Denise M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Journal of Criminal Justice. 37:21-27. Teen Court (TC) is an innovative juvenile diversion program that has spread rapidly across the United States in recent years. Despite its popularity, rigorous research on TC effectiveness is lacking. This study used data from a recent...
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Reconciliation and welfare: Victims’ Perspectives on the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
by Androff David Kime, Jr.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley. This study investigates the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC), an...
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Harmony and transformative mediation practice: Sustaining ideological differences in purpose and practice.
by Folger, Joseph
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) North Dakota Law Review. 84(3):823-860. The objective of this article is to articulate and clarify the key differences between the harmony and transformative frameworks of mediation practice and to argue for the importance of maintaining an awareness of these core differences...
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