Reducing violence through victim identification, care, and support programmes.
by World Health Organization
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Violence prevention, the evidence. Series of briefings on violence prevention. World Health Organization. Identifying, caring for and supporting victims of violence through the use of evidencebased initiatives is thus crucial in protecting health and breaking cycles of violence....
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Victoria’s neighbourhood justice centre.
by Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Current Initiatives Paper 1.State of New South Wales through the Department of Justice and Attorney General. Experience with community justice centres suggests that they can have a significant effect on the quality of local community life (Berman 1998). Indigenous communities,...
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One in 31: The long reach of American corrections.
by Pew Center on the States
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Washington, DC: The Pew Charitable Trusts With far less notice, the number of people on probation or parole has skyrocketed to more than 5 million, up from 1.6 million just 25 years ago. This means that 1 in 45 adults in the United States is now under criminal justice...
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Dilemmas of Justice and Reconciliation: Rwandans and the Gacaca Courts.
by Megwalu, Amaka
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 18.1 Following the 1994 genocide, several justice initiatives were implemented in Rwanda, including a tribunal established by the United Nations, Rwanda’s national court system and Gacaca, a ‘traditional’...
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Democratic sentiment and cyclical markets in vice.
by Braithwaite, Valerie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) British Journal of Criminology. 46:1110–1127. Aggressive tax planning is found to be a cyclical phenomenon in Australia and the United States. While people strongly disapprove of it, mass participation in aggressive tax planning occurs during cyclical upswings, probably...
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Conflict resolution, restorative justice, approaches and bullying in young people residential units.
by Littlechild, Brian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Children and Society. DOI:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2009.00259.x Restorative justice has been an increasing feature in the discourses within adult and youth justice criminal justice systems in recent years. This article examines interpersonal conflicts arising from crime, bullying and...
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Complementarity and alternative justice.
by Gordon, Gregory S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) ExpressO Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gregory_gordon/5 . Based on these questions and others, this Article proposes a set of evaluative criteria the ICC can use to formulate an admissibility test for conducting complementarity analysis in difficult cases of domestic...
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Community policing or zero tolerance?: Preferences of police officers from 22 countries in transition.
by Lum, Cynthia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) British Journal of Criminology. 49: 788-809. Since the 1970s, approximately 60 countries in the world have experienced major political transition away from authoritarianism towards democracy and more liberal modes of governance. Subsequently, this era has provided opportunities...
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Can amnesties and international justice be reconciled?
by Mallinder, Louise
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) International Journal of Transitional Justice. 1:208-230. When states are attempting to recover from periods of serious human rights abuse, they often must try to reconcile the competing demands of different stakeholders. These demands may range from claims that complete...
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Beyond retribution: Conceptualizing restorative justice and exploring ts determinants.
by Okimoto, Tyler G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Social Justice Research. 22:156-180. Previous research considering reactions to injustice has focused predominantly on retributive (i.e., punitive) responses. Restorative justice, a relatively understudied concept, suggests an alternative justice response which emphasizes...
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Russia and youth crime: A comparative study of attitudes and their implications.
by Mcauley, MARY
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) British Journal of Criminology. 47:2-22. We present, within a comparative context, data from the first Russian research on attitudes to youth crime and sentencing. In Russia, the harsh treatment of young offenders, which existed in the Soviet period, has softened, but...
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An evaluation of the Inafa’ Maolek’s mediation program and potential impact in resolution of child-custody cases on Guam.
by Fleming, Pamela S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy. Capella University. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the mediation program that was conducted by the Inafa’ Maolek Mediation Program and to determine whether...
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Anamnestic Solidarity: Immigration from the Perspective of Restorative Justice.
by O'Neill, William
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings. 64:158-159. Restorative justice has emerged as a “moral squint†in modern Catholic social teaching. In section (i) of his paper, O’Neill explored the Catholic interpretation of restorative justice against...
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Reconstructing justice in the land: How urban evangelical congregations in Cotonou and Porto-Novo can respond to the escalating phenomenon of antisocial behaviors.
by Gnonhossou, Mathieu Segbegnon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Dissertation for degree of Doctor of Ministry. Asbury Theological Seminary. The current context of escalating antisocial behaviours in Benin, in general, and in its major cities, in particular, demands that urban evangelical churches be freed from whatever is holding them back...
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Moral repair: Reconstructing moral relations after wrongdoing.
by Spelman, Elizabeth V.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Hypatia. 23(4):228-233. Here, as in her earlier Moral Understandings, Walker treats morality “as a phenomenon of human life in real time and space consist in trust-based relations anchored on our expectations of one another that require us to take responsibility for what...
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