International Restorative Justice Week
by Editor, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. Two women who presented at an event hosted by the Restorative Justice Unit in honor of International Restorative Justice Week tell about their experiences with victim-offender...
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Restorative Justice Conferences Reduce Trauma from Crime, Study Shows
by Editor, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. Dr. Caroline M. Angel conducted a study showing the psychological effects of restorative justice conferencing on post traumatic stress symptoms and found that conferencing...
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The Charter of Victims Rights and Beyond: Helping Victims to Recover and Regain their Physical, Psychological, and Emotional Well-Being
by Editor, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. The Charter of Victims Rights protects and promotes the rights of victims of crime in New South Wales and sets the standards for their appropriate treatment by government and...
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International Restorative Justice Week; Facing the Questions
by Editor, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. An article relating the story that Denis Collins, the key speaker at an event sponsored by the Restorative Justice Unit, told about his son’s murder and Denis’ subsequent...
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Victim offender interventions in 2007
by Editor, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. Nine short summaries of the outcomes of several victim-offender conferences for various...
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April 2008 Participation in a Victim Offender Conference presents offenders with a number of opportunities
by Editor, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. A story illustrates how a victim-offender conference can have positive effects for the offender who is finally able to make some headway on behavioral...
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Sino – Australian Seminar on the Protection of Criminal Victims
by Editor, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. A report of the proceedings of the Sino-Australian Seminar on the Protection of Criminal Victims, where Chinese and Australian people involved with restorative justice came together to...
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A Balanced Approach in Dealing with an Offense
by Lucey, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. The personal story of someone who has worked in a non-restorative justice-oriented area of the criminal justice system and his reflection on the differences between the two...
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New Ways Forward; Pathways to Change National Victims of Crime Conference September 2008
by Editor, Nancy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. A summation of what the Pathways to Change National Victims of Crime Conference September 2008 was about, focusing particularly on Dr. Jo-Anne Wemmers’ keynote...
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Restorative Justice with adult offenders, post-sentence is safe, reduces re-offending, cost less, saves money and delivers better outcomes
by Editor, Nancy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. A summation of Joanna Shapland’s fourth and final report about conclusions drawn from seven restorative justice projects established in the...
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A victim-offender conference: putting the people most affected by a murder, the victims, at the centre of the process
by Editor, Nancy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. After two young men fight resulting in the death of one, it takes eight years before a victim-offender conference is held. The conference brings peace to both the victim’s mother...
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Restorative Justice: Reconciliation and Reintegration in Practice
by Editor, Nancy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government. In this edition of our Restorative Justice Newsletter we discuss an offence and the Victim Offender Conference (VOC) that was facilitated to deal with the aftermath of the crime. We...
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What we know now: findings from dependency mediation research
by Thoennes, Nancy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Family Court Review, vol. 47. 21-37. After approximately 15 years of research on court-based dependency mediation programs, answers have emerged for many, but not all, of the questions that surround dependency mediation. This article explores what has been learned about...
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Meeting the challenges of introducing victim-offender mediation in Central and Eastern European countries
by Fellegi, Borbala
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice. In the last two decades, restorative justice and victim-offender mediation have been more and more widely used in the criminal justice systems of several European countries. This publication intends to give a...
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Restorative Justice, the crime-victim paradigm and the COE guidelines for a better implementation of the Recommendation ‘Mediation in Penal Matters’
by Wergens, Anna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Report of the fifth conference of the European Forum for Restorative Justice, Building restorative justice in Europe: cooperation between the public, policy makers, practitioners and researchers, Verona. The first part of the presentation commented on the role of crime victims...
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