A restorative justice model for mental health courts.
by Burns, Jessica
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice. 23:427-455. Mental health courts (MHCs) are a promising forum for combating the incarceration of individuals with mental illness. This Note explains why MHCs are particularly suited for community reintegration of those...
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Resisting simple dichotomies: Critiquing narratives of victims,perpetrators, and harm in Feminist theories of rape.
by Brenner, Alletta
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. 36:503-568. Liberal and radical feminist approaches to rape and rape law reform often display a victim/perpetrator framework. This framework presupposes perpetrator agency and empowerment, victim passivity and disempowerment, and that the harm...
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Reforms of competition law in the UK — Aims and outcomes.
by Acworth, Thomas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) North East Law Review. 2:45-50. The reforms of competition law in the UK aimed to deliver restorative justice and deter anti-competitive conduct. This paper analyses the reforms and their outcomes in the light of a move to an opt-out regime and introducing stand-alone actions as...
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Reflections on judicial views of Ubuntu.
by Himonga, C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal. 16(5):370-427. Our paper provides a critical engagement with the evolution of the judicial reception of ubuntu in the courts from the adoption of the 1993 interim Constitution until November 2013. Our contribution could have been synthesised...
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Reducing incarceration for youthful offenders with a developmental approach to sentencing.
by Buckingham, Samantha
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.46:801-884. Current sentencing practices have proven to be an ineffective method of rehabilitating criminal defendants. Such practices are unresponsive to developmental science breakthroughs, fail to promote rehabilitation, and drain...
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Recognizing the humanity of the victimizer: Clinical and social implications.
by Howard, Sally
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. 8:179–194 This article explores aspects of healing and recovery of the individual and collective imagination following experiences of dehumanizing trauma. Intergenerational cycles of violence and dehumanization in...
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Punishing perpetrators or seeking truth for victims: Serbian opinions on dealing with war crimes.
by Weitekamp, Elmar G. M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) International Criminal Law Review 13:43-62. The debate on how to deal with the past in Serhia is still ongoing almost twenty years after the end of the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia. From the very start the international community has put major emphasis on the criminal...
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Prolegomenon to a materialist history of restorative justice.
by Koen, R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Fundamina. 18(2):77-107. …the argument for restorative justice relies on history. This essay will attempt to evaluate this argument in terms of the materialist conception of history, as demarcated by the governing concepts and methodological resources of classical Marxism....
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Privatization and its discontents.
by Kozinski, Alex
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Emory Law Journal. 63:263-282. Public institutions are public for a reason. Sometimes, it’s because of the tragedy of the commons. We all need clean air and feel that the governing rules should be written with public input and enforced by a politically accountable entity,...
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Postconflict justice in the aftermath of modern slavery.
by Brooks, Roy L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) The George Washington International Law Review. 46:243-303. Modern slavery is defined as human exploitation over a period of time effectuated through coercion, fraud, or trickery. An estimated 12.3 million people worldwide are held in some form of modern slavery, including...
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Perceptions and understandings of educators working in an MLK street community school in the Central Valley of California.
by Starks, Charlane F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Dissertation. Degree of Doctor of Education. University of the Pacific Stockton, California. This dissertation utilized constructivism and identity frameworks to describe educators’ interpretations of their work in an urban school located on a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....
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A new vision for correctional officers.
by Schwartz, Sunny
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Tikkun. Winter:37-40. In this article we share our experience, as longtime developers of restorative practices in a San Francisco County Jail, of the deputized staff who have assisted in bringing about a new vision. We honor the courage of those mavericks, and acknowledge the...
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My restorative justice experience.
by Blake, Herb
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal. 3:161-164, The principles of Restorative Justice seem to make perfect sense; therefore, I have continued to work in areas that support these guidelines. Upon my release, in December 2008, I volunteered at the Office of Restorative Justice...
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A model of victims’ reparations in the International Criminal Court.
by Miller, Bryan Barnet
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) University of La Verne Law Review.33(2):255-283. The goal of this paper is to provide the International Criminal Court with a workable model so that reparations may be made to victims under Article 75, which comports with defendants’ due process rights. A three phase model...
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Lubanga and its implications for victims seeking reparations at the International Criminal Court.
by Wiersing, Anja
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Amsterdam law Forum. 4(3):21-39. This article explores the implications that the historic yet controversial Lubanga judgment is likely to have for victims seeking reparations through the International Criminal Court (ICC). It examines the reparations framework of the ICC, and,...
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