Looking Backward to Address the Future? Transitional Justice, Rising Crime, and Nation-Building
by Cavallaro, James L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Maine Law Review, vol. 60:461-475 The author proposes that the greatest threat to internal stability is not terrorism but non-political violent crime or so-called “street violence.” He argues then that nations in the state of transition to democracy ought to spend...
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Raising the Age for Juvenile Jurisdiction in Illinois: Medical Science, Adolescent Competency, and Cost
by Walsh, Richard F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, vol. 39:767-797 The author proposes that the costs of changing Illinois law so that a minor is defined as a person under the age of eighteen are not as great as critics of the measure...
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Beyond Therapy: Problem-Solving Courts and the Deliberative Democratic State
by Mirchandani, Rekha
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 33: 853-893 The article describes the phenomenon of problem-solving courts and summarizes some of the Foucalt-derived criticism leveled against them. The author appropriates some of the criticism but then modifies it, proposing theoretical...
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From Kneecappings Toward Peace: The Use of Intra-Community Dispute Resolution in Northern Ireland
by Cody, Patrick
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Journal of Dispute Resolution, vol. 2:555-569 The article explores the history and effectiveness of restorative justice organizations in Northern Ireland that seek to defuse paramilitary groups on both the Catholic and the Protestant sides. The author addresses criticism of the...
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Bare Justice: A Feminist Theory of Justice and Its Potential Application to Crimes of Sexual Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda
by Carpenter, Megan M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Creighton Law Review, vol. 41:595-661 The article develops a feminist legal theory of justice that seeks to overcome the limitations of traditional legal strategies. The author then applies her theory to the case of sexual crimes perpetrated against women in Rwanda in an effort...
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Achieving Peace with Justice: The International Criminal Court and Ugandan Alternative Justice Mechanisms
by Keller, Linda M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Connecticut Journal of International Law, vol. 23: 209-279 The article explores the tension between achieving peace at the expense of justice and vice versa in intra-state conflicts focusing on the conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government. The...
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Remedial Approaches to Human Rights Violations: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Beyond
by Antkowiak, Thomas M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 46: 351-419 This Article argues that reparative approaches that include only compensation and declarative relief are not only insufficient in egregious cases such as Plan de Sanchez, but they are also inadequate, inefficient, and even...
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“Copynorms,” Black Cultural Production, and the Debate Over African-American Reparations
by Greene, K.J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, vol. 25: 1179-1227 An article contrasting the music industry’s stance against piracy of intellectual property with its historical agenda of denying African-American artists the fruit of their intellectual labors. The article...
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Equal Justice for Women: A Personal Journey
by Pillay, Navanethem
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Arizona Law Review Vol. 50: 657-671 A lecture given by the Judge of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court on her career as a female lawyer and judge standing up against gender inequality and discussing the general nature of international sex...
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence Misunderstood and Misrepresented: The Price and Risks of Influence
by Freckelton, Ian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Thomas Jefferson Law Review This Article scrutinizes a range of the critiques of therapeutic jurisprudence and reflects upon the risks of it being misused in the name of legislative and court reforms. (author’s...
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Transitional Justice in Postconflict Contexts: The Case of Sierra Leone’s Dual Accountability Mechanisms
by Apori-Nkansah, Lydia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy and Administration. Walden University. This qualitative case study sought to understand the practice of dual transitional justice by examining the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the...
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Supporting Young Offenders Through Restorative Justice: Parents as (In)Appropriate Adults
by Hoyle, Carolyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) British Journal of Community Justice Vol 6. Set within the wider context of responsibilising youth justice policies, this article heeds academic calls for further research into parent/child dynamics within restorative justice processes (Prichard, 2002; Bradt et al., 2007), by...
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Restorative Justice in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Spiers, Kim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology. The University of Manitoba. This thesis examines the founding documents of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (SATRC) to assess if the commission was founded on restorative justices values (RJ)....
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Restorative Justice and Educating for Peace
by Metz, Heather
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Social Justice. Prescott College. An ethnographic case study of a classroom for children with behavioral disorders was conducted in order to explore the question: in what ways does restorative...
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Protocols for Evaluating Restorative Justice Programmes
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) British Journal of Community Justice. 6(2):9-28. This article provides a review and critique of the current research findings about restorative justice. It is suggested that some of the positive findings are not due to programme efficacy, but rather to well-known threats to...
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