Circles of Support & Accountability: A National Replication of Outcome Findings
by Wilson, Robin J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Ottawa, Ontario: Correctional Services of Canada. Research Branch. Results show that the offenders who participated in COSA had significantly lower rates of any type of reoffending than did the matched comparison offenders who did not participate in COSA. Specifically, offenders...
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Merrill Middle School Meets Restorative Justice.
by Nelson, Tanya
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) The Crime Victims Report. September/October 2009:51-52. Schools are a microcosm of our world. They demonstrate the outcome of our investment, the potential, and its continuous need to adapt to changing times. Walking into an elementary school, middle school, high school, you may...
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Locked up potential: A strategy for reforming prisons and rehabilitating prisoners.
by Prison Reform Working Group.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) London: The Centre for Social Justice. We make a number of recommendations that would give victims a more important role in the criminal justice system and prisoners a proper awareness of the damage they do to the victims of their crimes. These recommendations include...
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Off-court misbehavior: sports leagues and private punishment.
by Kim, Janine Young
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) (Symposium: Essays on the Intersection of Professional Sports and the Criminal Law).Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 99(3):573-597. This Essay examines how professional sports leagues address (apparently increasing) criminal activity by players off of the field or court....
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Reflections on the Restorative Conference Facilitator’s Script.
by Shapero, Kate
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Practices E-Forum. 14 October. In mathematics and science, the term elegant is used to describe a formula or explanation that is both simple and comprehensive. Elegant ideas use evidence to braid together many of the messy strings dangling from a problem. They reveal...
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Restorative Justice in the Reentry Context: Building New Theory and Expanding the Evidence Base.
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Victims and Offenders. 4(4):375-384. Although there is currently considerable activity around improving the reentry process for former prisoners returning to society, much of this work lacks a strong theoretical and empirical foundation. With its well-developed theoretical...
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Persistence and desistance: examining the impact of re-integrative shaming to ethics in Taiwan juvenile hackers.
by Da-Yu Kao, John O
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Computer Law & Security Report. 25(5):464-477. The Internet community has been addressing the unethical behavior of juvenile delinquents for years. Nevertheless, the concepts of hacker shame and ethics have received little empirical study from a theoretical perspective in...
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Victims, “Closure,” and the Sociology of Emotion.
by Bandes, Susan A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):1-26. For the families of murder victims, the grief, anger, and pain a murder leaves in its wake must to some degree unfold in public, institutional settings. Grieving is rarely an entirely private, internal experience. In every culture,...
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A Reflection and Response to Using Criminal Punishment to Serve Both Victim and Social Needs.
by Downes, Kenneth R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):227-231. One of the benefits of O’Hara’s and Robbins’ proposal to give greater power and choice to victims is that, for those who choose VOM and for those who choose to exercise their choice in sentencing, it creates a...
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Comment on Using Criminal Punishment to Serve Both Victim and Social Needs.
by Haley, John O
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2): 219-225. By expanding the frame of reference, restorative justice can be defined as a paradigm whose scope encompasses more than victim–offender mediation (VOM) and whose emphasis includes the needs of society and offenders as well as...
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Using Criminal Punishment to Serve Both Victim and Social Needs.
by O'Hara, Erin Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):200-217. In this article we propose changing the manner in which control rights over criminal sanctions are distributed. This modest change has the potential to increase victim well-being without interfering with social needs. Specifically,...
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Examining the Applicability of the Concepts of Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation to Multi-stakeholders, Collaborative Problem-solving Processes.
by Miles, Jennifer Pratt
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):193-198. The Meridian Institute, an organization with expertise in designing, facilitating, and mediating collaborative problem-solving processes, works with parties to address conflicts and decisions associated with natural resources,...
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Legitimacy and Effectivness of a Grassroots Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
by Williams, Jill E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):144-149. This article provides a brief background on the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation process and the event it was created to address. It will then apply some of the lessons described in Professor Gibson’s article2 to...
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On Legitimacy Theory and the Effectiveness of Truth Commissions
by Gibson, James L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):123-141. But are truth commissions effective? Of course, the first part of the answer to this question requires an answer to an earlier query: Effective at what? Can a truth commission create a democratic political system? Probably not. Can...
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Truth, Understanding and Repair.
by Dukes, E. Franklin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):57-61. Based primarily upon what I have found through the course of my work with damaged communities, I have developed the following conceptual framework, which allows conflict interveners as well as the parties themselves to think clearly...
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