What makes revenge sweet: Seeing the offender suffer or delivering a message?
by Gollwitzer, Mario
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45:840-844. The present article investigates the conditions under which vengeful episodes are satisfactory for the victim/ avenger. Two hypotheses are tested simultaneously: (1) victims are satisfied if they see the offender suffer,...
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Youth crime: Whose responsibility?
by Newbury, Alex
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Journal of Law and Society. 35(1):131-149. Responsibility is an increasingly important concept within both political and academic debates about youth justice. As an alternative approach to youth crime, restorative justice ideology has contributed to this debate. Restorative...
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Youth Justice in New Zealand: Restorative Justice in Practice?
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Journal of Social Issues. 62(2):239-258. The Children, YoungPersons, and TheirFamilies Act 1989 put in place newobjects, principles, and procedures for youth justice in New Zealand. Both the philosophy underpinning this system and the use of family group conferences exemplify a...
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A Third Space between the Prison and the Community: Post Release Programs and Re-Integration.
by Peacock, Megan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 20:307-312. Post release programs are typically understood as functioning to reintegrate offenders into the community. More critical accounts have reconstructed such integrative programs – as well as the wider restorative justice...
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Timing Justice: Lessons from the Tribunals in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia.
by Whaley, Zoe B.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Honors Projects. Paper 22. Macalester College. Scholarship on tribunals for mass human rights violations overlooks how the presence or absence of conflict influences its effectiveness. I argue that implementing a tribunal during conflict undermines its ability to effectively...
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Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding after Mass Violence.
by Lambourne, Wendy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) International Journal of Transitional Justice. 3(1):28-48. Since the end of the Cold War, the international community has become increasingly involved in peacebuilding and transitional justice after mass violence. This article uses lessons from practical experience and theories...
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Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the ‘Field’ or ‘Non-Field’.
by Bell, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) International Journal of Transitional Justice. 3(1):5–27. Transitional justice appears to be an established field of scholarship connected to a field of practice on how to deal with past human rights abuses in societies in transition. The original focus of transitional...
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Trauma and Vengeance: Assessing the Psychological and Emotional Effects of Post-Conflict Justice.
by Mendeloff, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Human Rights Quarterly. 31(2009): 592–623. Do war crimes tribunals or truth commissions satisfy victims of war and atrocity and provide psychological relief from war-induced trauma? Do they make victims less vengeful and less likely to engage in or support violent...
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Apology, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair.
by Cole, Elizabeth A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Ethics & International Affairs. 22(4):421-428. Apology, forgiveness, reparations, restitution, truth-telling, acknowledgment, restorative and retributive justice, trust, repair, reconciliation: How do these processes relate to one another, how do they differ, and how do...
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American and Canadian Approaches to Sex Offenders: A Study of the Politics of Dangerousness.
by Petrunik, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Federal Sentencing Reporter. 21(2):111-113. In this Article, we describe and attempt to account for differences between American and Canadian approaches to managing the dangerousness of sex offenders, whether through community protection legislative initiatives; treatment,...
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Restorative Collaboration: The Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program
by Llewellyn, Jennifer J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Plenary presentation at the 12th World Conference of the International Institute for Restorative Practices. Bethlehem, PA.21-23 October 2009. For those of you who may not know, Nova Scotia is located on the east coast of Canada. It is a small province with a population of...
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My Restorative Journey and the Story of Hull, UK.
by Macdonald, Estelle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Plenary presentation at the 12th World Conference of the International Institute for Restorative Practices. Bethlehem, PA.21-23 October 2009. It is a privilege to be part of this conference, and I am delighted to be able to share with you my story and the beginning of the story...
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Restorative Justice? What’s That?
by Zehr, Howard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Plenary presentation at the 12th World Conference of the International Institute for Restorative Practices. Bethlehem, PA.21-23 October 2009. Do a Google search for the phrase “restorative justice†and you will get over a million “hits†– and this...
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System Rationality Encounters Lifeworld Rationality: The SONI Approach to FGC .
by Früchtel, Frank
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Plenary presentation at the 12th World Conference of the International Institute for Restorative Practices. Bethlehem, PA.21-23 October 2009. Family group conferencing (FGC) has been used in New Zealand since 1989. This new way of care and protection support planning was...
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Understanding Victims of Crime and Their Need to Deal with the Victim/Offender Trauma Bond: The 15 Elements of the Crime Victim Detour.
by Derksen, Wilma
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Plenary presentation at the 12th World Conference of the International Institute for Restorative Practices. Bethlehem, PA.21-23 October 2009. In the late 1980s, when I was directing the program development of a group called Family Survivors of Homicide, we discovered that there...
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