Truth and consequences: When crime victims and offenders meet.
by Wright, Tom A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) U.S. Catholic. 78(3):12-17. The program, one of a growing number of restorative justice initiatives taking place in prisons around the country, brings together offenders and victims of violent crime in the hope of fostering healing and rehabilitation. In a correctional system...
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An exploratory view of the juvenile arbitration program of Aiken County, South Carolina.
by Hazen, Nina
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) International Social Science Review. 87(3&4):102- 126. Offering diversion programs, such as the Juvenile Arbitration Program (JAP), alleviates the financial and personnel strains on a congested justice system. Solicitors prosecuting cases against juvenile offenders...
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Transforming communities: Restorative justice as a community building strategy.
by Beck, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Journal of Community Practice, 20:380–401. Restorative justice is entering the social work literature as a strategy that can transform lives harmed by violence. However, the literature has yet to explore how restorative justice can transform communities. Despite the lack...
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The art of dialogue: Jewish-Christian relations in a post-shoah world.
by Krondorfer, Björn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Crosscurrents. 62(3):301-317. The importance of dialogue is the topic I want to address at this occasion. I want to show that there is an art to dialoguing, and this art calls us into an ethical commitment of relationality. I also want to show that the art to dialoguing...
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Controversies around restorative justice.
by Belden, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Tikkun. Winter: 27-29, 65-68. Restorative justice may be poised for a breakthrough into public awareness. It would be a boon for budget-cutting politicians and taxpayers if only the public could buy into it. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area it costs around $50,000 to...
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Restorative justice: Some facts and history.
by Armour, Marilyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Tikkun. Winter:25,26, 64,&65. Restorative justice is a fast-growing state, national, and international social movement and set of practices that aim to redirect society’s retributive response to crime. Restorative justice views crime not as a depersonalized breaking...
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Rwanda: Global experts in large scale restorative justice.
by Morgan, Sally
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Ethos. 20(1):7-13. This article is about Rwanda’s recovery and, more specifically about the systematic model of restorative justice that Rwanda has used to deal with genocide crimes. Rwanda stands as an example to the world of how to recover. This is a controversial...
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Contemporary origins of restorative justice programming: The Minnesota Restitution Center.
by Hudson, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Federal Probation. 76(2):49-55. THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM expressed by rmany writers on the history of restorative justice traces its contemporary origins to victim-offender meetings held in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in 1974. For just a few examples of the numerous authors...
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Science cannot fix this: the limitations of evidence-based practice.
by Boyes-Watson, Carolyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Contemporary Justice Review. 15(3):265-275. The use of evidence-based practice as a guide for correctional investment is widely lauded as a positive shift away from punitive approaches to criminal justice. The value-neutral language of science, however, supplants a more...
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Which approach to justice in Colombia in the era of the ICC.
by Bueno, Isabella
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) International Criminal Law Review. 13:211-247. How could Colombia deal with the overwhelming cmelty of mass atrocities committed during its ongoing conflict? This article intends to thorougfily explain the strategies implemented in Colombia to deal vnth the issues of...
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Trauma-informed approaches to law: Why restorative justice must understand trauma and psychological coping.
by Randall, Melanie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Dalhousie Law Journal. 36(2):501-533. Becoming trauma informed entaiis becoming more astutely aware of the ways in which people who are traumatized have their iife trajectories shaped by the experience and its effects, and developing policies and practices which reflect this...
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Fulfilling the mandate of national reconciliation in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)– An evaluation through the prison of victim’s rights.
by Gee-kin Ip, Ken
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) International Criminal Law Review. 13:865-894. The central theme of this article is to assess whether the mandate of national reconciliation has been fulñlled in the ECCC. Recent retreats in the scope of victims’ participatory rights reveal a palpable gap between the...
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Exploring communities of facilitators: Orientations toward restorative justice.
by Paul, Gregory D
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 31(2):189-218. Although current research on restorative justice largely has overlooked facilitators’ roles in victim-off ender conferences, research on third parties suggests that they are more than neutral process guides. Th e study...
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Is forgiveness possible? Reconciliation as a key ecumenical mandate.
by Petersen, Rodney L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) The Ecumenical Review. 66(2):177-190. The journey to reconciliation includes a growing awareness of the many assumptions that lie beneath the concept. It is a journey that may have a variety of starting points, but somewhere along the way will include the concept of forgiveness....
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Retribution and restoration as general orientations toward justice.
by Okimoto, Tyler G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) European Journal of Personality. 26:255-275. We proposed two distinct understandings of what justice means to victims and what its restoration entails that are reflected in individualâ€level justice orientations. Individuals with a retributive orientation conceptualize...
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