Healing from Slavery, War, and Genocide: Lessons from John Woolman and Friends in Rwanda and Burundi
by Zarembka, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Peaceways, AGLI. Zarembka explains that Christians ought to live restoratively, using as his example the work of the Quakers in Rwanda who have actively worked to restore the country in the wake of its terrible genocide. He illustrates his points with stories of people who were...
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Speaking Across the Divide
by Nyiramana, Cecile
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Peaceways, AGLI, vol. 1(1):8-9 Nyiramana describes her experience as a Tutsi during the genocide in Rwanda and then tells about the program she developed after the war to heal both Hutu and Tutsi communities affected by the violence. Her program brings together Tutsi widows and...
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Love Has Replaced Hatred: A Visit to Gitega, Burundi Prison
by Niyongabo, Adrien
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Peaceways, AGLI, vol. 1(1):6-7 A group of people from the town of Mutaho, Burundi (a town that was effectively destroyed during the period of ethnic violence between Hutus and Tutsis), went to visit the men who had killed their families who were now imprisoned. For them it was...
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The Heart of My Enemy: Rwandan Friends Rebuilding After the Genocide
by Chico, Laura Shipler
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Peaceways, vol. 1(1):4-5 This article tells the stories of several Rwandans who lived through the genocide and introduces the Alternatives to Violence Project, a program developed by Quakers in Rwanda that “quietly invites participants to begin to see the possibility of...
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Entries and Endings: Victims’ Journeys with Justice
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Victims and Mediation. I explore a complex set of relationships between the initial distress caused by crime, what I term the real offence (a more precise set of categories that depict the offence), and victim recovery and lingering emotional concerns a year later. I identify...
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What Does a Modernised Justice System Mean to Women
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Victims Support Agency Forum, Melbourne Town Hall. The author asks the question “is there a place for restorative justice as an appropriate or additional pathway for violent crimes against women and children?” and she answers it with a qualified yes. She goes on to...
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Youth Sex Offenders in Court: An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Remarks
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Punishment and Society. Vol. 9, Issue 4:371-394 This paper builds on an archival study of 385 sexual offence cases, which were disposed in court and by conference and formal caution, in South Australia from 1995 to 2001. Drawing on the transcripts of 55 cases sentenced by judges...
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Judicial Censure and Moral Communication to Youth Sex Offenders
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Justice Quarterly. Vol. 25, Issue 3:496-522. This paper analyzes the frequency and content of judicial censure and moral communication in the sentencing of youth sex offenders. Drawing on the sentencing remarks for 55 sexual violence cases, we examine the ways in which judges...
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Restorative Justice and Youth Violence toward Parents
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) New York: Oxford University Press. It is crucial to situate current debates on the appropriateness of restorative justice for partner, sexual, or family violence with a clear sense of what women like Carolyn face. Her son’s assault shares elements of partner (or...
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South Australia Juvenile Justice and Criminal Justice (SAJJ-CJ) Research on Conferencing and Sentencing
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. Brisbane, Queensland. Like SAJJ-CJ Technical Report No. 3 (Daly et al. 2005), which describes the data gathering and research plan for the Sexual Assault Archival Study (SAAS) in South Australia, the principle aim...
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Seeking Justice in the 21st Century: Towards an Intersectional Politics of Justice
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) “Restorative Justice: From Theory to Practice,” Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance Series. Vol. 11: 3-30. Emerald Group Publishing. Bingley, UK. After setting the political and personal contexts, defining key terms, and comparing Indigenous and restorative...
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Racializing Restorative Justice: Lessons from Indigenous Justice Practices
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Prepared for Plenary address to the Second Restorative Justice Conference San Antonio, Texas. As restorative justice matures, questions have been raised about the degree to which practices are sensitive to cultural and racial-ethnic differences or can address the dynamics of...
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Diversionary Conferences in Australia: A Reply to the Optimists and the Skeptics
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Prepared for American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings, Chicago. Conferencing is probably a good idea. However, it is not as trouble-free as optimists argue nor as dreadful as skeptics fear. On items I can compare, my findings from a small set of cases in two jurisdictions...
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New Visions of Justice
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) From “Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology.” 3rd Edition: 439-64. Law Book Company. Crime control and justice policies have always been varied, but as O’Malley says (1999, p 176), there now exists an unprecedented “state of penological...
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Analysis of Australian Indigenous Imprisonment and Demographic Information
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. Two charts showing information about the Australian Indigenous population’s rate of imprisonment from 2001 to...
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