Living in his father’s shadow: Exploring healing justice and reconciliation in Cambodia with Duch’s son.
by Nou, Leakhena
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Asianjoumal oJ Social Science 41:23-66. Nearly four decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide, the Cambodian people have found some solace to a tragic past that forever has defined their personal and collective identities. The first of five defendants on trial in the Extraordinary...
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Expanding opportunity through critical restorative justice.
by Knight, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Studies in Educaiton.11(1):11-33. One approach to nurturing positive youth development and creating an “opportunity pipeline†for especially vulnerable students is restorative justice. Restorative justice is an alternative to zero tolerance discipline intended to...
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Evaluating the contribution of sentencing to social justice: Some conceptual problems.
by Henham, Ralph
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) International Criminal Law Review. 12: 361–373 The sentencing practices of the courts are significant in promoting social welfare and the cohesion of communities. More particularly, the social morality which underpins punishment and its expression through sentencing is a...
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An equilibrium-centric interpretation of restorative justice and examinig its implementation difficulties in America.
by Ghoshray, Saby
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Campbell Law Review. 35:287-332. The heavy punitive focus of the current criminal justice system has failed to reduce criminality. It has also adversely impacted the crime victims. This is because the general framework of prolonged incarceration does very little to heal the...
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The effects of regulated discretion on police referrals to restorative justice.
by Crocker, Diane
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Dalhousie Law Journal. 36(2):393-418. The Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program relies heavily on referrals from police who are authorized to refer a range of property and both violent and non-violent offences. Federal legislation and provincial protocols guide referral...
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Disrupting the pipeline: The role of school leadership in mitigating exclusion and criminalization of students.
by Wilson, Michael G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) NJournal of Special Education Leadership 26(2): 61-70. In this article, I examine the literature on the characteristics of youth typically involved in the juvenile system. Additionally, I explore the ways that school leadership contributes to youths’ exclusion and their...
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Discourses on behaviour: A role for restorative justice?
by Harold, Victoria L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) International Journal on School Disaffection. 10(2):45-61. The description and management of difficult behaviour in schools has interested educational practitioners and researchers worldwide, including in the UK. Concerns have been raised about the use and implications of more...
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Discipline with dignity: Oakland classrooms try healing instead of punishment.
by Davis, Fania E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Reclaiming Youth. 23(1):38-41. A UC Berkeley Law study found RJOY’s 2007 middle school pilot eliminated violence and expulsions, while reducing school suspension rates by 87 percent. After two years of training and participation in RJ practices, whenever conflict arose,...
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Decolonizing restorative justice.
by Breton, Denise
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Tikkun. Winter:45-47, 69. Restorative justice still gives me hope, but my experiences and conversations on the 2004 Dakota Commemorative March, and my reflections since then, have dramatically changed my orientation to the restorative justice movement. I still believe that it...
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Culpability attributions towards juvenile female prostitutes.
by Menaker, Tasha A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Child Abuse Review.22:161-181. This study addresses a gap in the research literature concerning predictors of culpability attributions towards juvenile female prostitutes (JFPs). Three hundred undergraduate participants read a vignette describing a JFP and responded to a series...
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Criminal punishment and the pursuit of justice.
by Materni, Mike C.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) British Journal of American Legal Studies. 2:263-304. Since the beginning of recorded history societies have punished offenders while at the same time trying to justify the practice on moral and rational grounds and to clarify the relationship between punishment and justice....
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Criminal mediation in the Romanian law system.
by Dragne, Luminita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences. 2:91-94. Criminal mediation is a relatively new field in the Romanian legal system and is an alternative way of resolving conflicts amicably through a third party – the mediator – only for those offenses for which by...
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Creating a safe educational environment through restorative justice and the promotion of human rights in school discipline.
by Reyneke, Mariëtte
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) International Journal for Education Law and Policy. 8(2):19-43. In what follows the concept of discipline will be defined, the restorative approach to discipline will be explained briefly and in the last instance the compatibility of the different approaches to discipline will...
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‘The cooling of hearts’: Community truth-telling in Northern Uganda.
by Anyeko, Ketty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Human Rights Review. 13;107-124. Recent national and international debates on truth and reconciliation in Uganda have emphasized the importance of incorporating local-level mechanisms into a national transitional justice strategy. The Juba Peace Talks represented an opportunity...
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A victim-centered approach to justice? Victim satisfaction effects on third-party punishments.
by Gromet, Dena M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Law and Human Behavior. 36(5):375-389. Three studies investigated whether victims’ satisfaction with a restorative justice process influenced third-party assignments of punishment. Participants evaluated criminal offenses and victims’ reactions to an initial...
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