Mediating Sexual Assault: Justice for Victims Within and Beyond the Criminal Justice System.
by Schroeder, Ainslie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Department of Justice, Canada. Restorative justice measures, such as victim-offender mediation and family group conferencing, have been touted as bringing a richer and more lasting justice to all parties involved—victims, offenders, family members and the community alike....
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The Penal Crisis and The Clapham Omnibus: Questions and Answers in Resotrative Justice.
by Cornwell, David J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Hook, Hampshire: Waterside Press. The title selected for this volume, The Penal Crisis and the Clapham Omnibus: Questions and Answers in Restorative Justice, represents a deliberate attempt to bring together and discuss issues that critically affect the development of...
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Opening the “Black Box”: A Naturalistic Case Study of Restorative Justice.
by Choi, Jung Jin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Dissertation submited to the School of Social Welfare and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the Univeristy of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosopy. To develop an in-depth understanding of restorative justice process, this...
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Improving School Climate: Findings from Schools implementing Restorative Practices.
by Groothues, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. Summer 2009:11. Inspired by the failure of authoritarian responses to falling academic standards and increasing violence in schools the International Institute for Restorative Practices developed an alternative...
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Social Capital in a Civil Society: Power in our hands.
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. Summer 2009:9. What started as Restorative Justice could lead to a wider concept of civil society, and even help to make it a reality. That was the message of a seminar of the European Forum for Restorative Justice, in...
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An Eventful Journey: Restorative Justice and Leicestershire Police.
by Hastings, Sandie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. Summer 2009:8-9. Below Sandie describes the latest chapter in her RJ story beginning with an opportunity to pilot restorative justice in neighbourhood policing on two estates in Leicestershire. The selection of...
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Can Murder ever be Forgiven? A Restorative Justice Case Study.
by Goldstone, Sharon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. Summer 2009:6-7 For Christmas in 1985, Marlon* went to visit his daughter who was living with his ex-wife, her aunt and her four year old cousin, Tanya. Marlon went with the intention of giving both girls a Sindy doll as...
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Restorative Justice and Protective Behaviours: A Perfect Match.
by Bassett, Penny
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. Summer 2009:4-5. On the 21st May 2009 at Egrove Park,Oxford, 120 people attended the launch of the Oxfordshire Young Victims of Crime project; one of several Home Office initiatives intended to improve support for young...
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With ‘Restorative Justice,’ Colleges Strive to Educate Student Offenders.
by Lipka, Sara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Chronicle of Higher Education; 4/17/2009. 55(32):A26-A28. The article discusses the use of restorative justice at universities and colleges in the United States. Restorative justice is defined as a blend of mediation and restitution that resolves conflicts by identifying the...
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Restorative justice: an alternative model whose time has come. (Dealing With Deliquents)(Report)
by Schetky, Diane H.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter 25(9):1-3. abstract...
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Inuit customary law meets criminal law in Nunavut–what’s the status ten years after?
by Tomaszewski, E. Andreas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) LawNow. 34(1):18-21. In an article published not long before Nunavut, Canada’s third northern territory, was created on April 1, 1999 1 argued in favour of an innovative approach to criminal justice in Nunavut, one that should be grounded in Inuit culture. I did so because...
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Circles: Use of the Talking Stick, Feather, Rock.
by Restorative Justice Initiative, Wayne
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Minnesota Department of Corrections Resotrative Justice Initiative. Generally, a piece which has particular meaning to the community is used as the talking piece passed to facilitate and share speaking time in the circle....
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The Cross: God’s PeaceWork – Towards a Restorative Peacemaking Understanding of the Atonement.
by Northey, Wayne
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) M2/W2 Restorative Christian Ministries. New Testament theologian Walter Wink, author of a significant three-volume study on the Powers, writes: “I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the Reformation’s ‘How can I find a...
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A Brief Look at Restorative Justice.
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) M2/W2 Restorative Christian Ministries. The above story, known in the Restorative Justice movement as “The Elmira Caseâ€2 became a kind of proverbial shot that echoed around the world. Over 200 mediation programs in North America alone trace their origins to the...
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The Sex Offender as Scapegoat: Vigilante Violence and a Faith Community Response.
by Northey, Wayne
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) M2/W2 Restorative Christian Ministries. Many have witnessed the hostility of the community to people like Bobby Oatway and other sex offenders. How does the dialogue happen that moves beyond such scapegoating violence to address the real needs in the situation, the concerns of...
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