Positive discipline.
by Denti, Lou
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Leadership.May/June: 26-38. Restorative justice is not a panacea, but another option to keep adolescent students connected to the pro-social environment school offers. Suspending or expelling students for behavioral issues seldom empowers or teaches students effective ways to...
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The transitions of transitional justice: Mapping the waves from promise to practice.
by Balasco, Lauren Marie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Journal of Human Rights, 12:198–216. Transitional justice is facing a kind of inverted “paradox of successâ€: The less effective its mechanisms seem to be in their efforts to build democracy and peace, the more we are demanding from them. This article...
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Three dogmas of juvenile justice.
by Weatherburn, Don
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) UNSW Law Journal 35(3):779-181. Juvenile justice policy in Australia is dominated by three assumptions so widely accepted and so rarely challenged they might fairly be described as dogmas. The first assumption is that contact with the court system increases the risk of further...
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Feeling relational: The use of Buddhist mediation in restorative practices.
by Shotwell, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Dalhousie Law Journal. 36(2): 319-334. Some theorists have argued that restorative justice can be defined as a theory of justice based on the reiationality of self—the idea that the self exists in and through its relationships with others. This account of seif, whiie...
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The other voice in the room: Restorative justice facilitator’s constructions of justice.
by Paul, Gregory D
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 31(3):257-283. Restorative justice represents an approach to managing confl ict initiated by a wrongdoing that focuses on restoring the participants materially, psychologically, and relationally. Restorative interventions usually involve...
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Make students part of the solution, not the problem.
by Gardner, Trevor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Phi Delta Kappan. 96:8-12. The SJP was the product of teacher leadership and pressure to move toward a more restorative and responsive approach to student discipline. The initiative had considerable ideological support from several teachers but lacked a clear road map on how to...
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Beyond the ‘three dogmas of juvenile justice’: A response to Weatherburn, McGrath, and Bartels.
by Richards, Kelly
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) UNSW Law Journal. 36(3): 839-862. This article is divided into three parts. Part II critically examines each of the three assumptions about youth justice identified by Weatherburn, McGrath and Bartels, and the authors’ claim that these assumptions are ‘so widely...
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Tracing the maddening effects of abuses of authority: Rationalities gone violent in mental health services and universities.
by Palmer, Marilyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Social Alternatives. 33(3):28-36. Organisations such as mental health systems and universities can be places where violence is part of the business as usual and hence taken-for-granted functionality of the workplaces. The paper challenges dominant perceptions of who is mad and...
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Your story and theirs: The Youth Justice Group Conference Program.
by Hooper, Christopher
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Monash University Law Review. 39(2):541-567.) This article provides a small-scale empirical study which interrogates the restorative justice dialogue underpinning the Youth Justice Group Conferencing Program (YJGCP) in Victoria. Personal refl ections collected from interviews...
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Restorative justice for child sexual abuse victims
by O'Callaghan, Vic
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Eureka Street. 24(22). Might total focus on stringent practice and policy design be creating a hole where all that is heard is the drone to ‘moved on’? I listen and still hear whispering whimpers. There is something missing from the current lexicon. Where are the...
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Law, religion, and restorative justice in New Zealand.
by Shriver Jr., Donald W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Journal of law and Religion. 28(1):143-177. As RJ practice took hold in NZ under both the FGC and adult conferencing systems, questions about the conventional judicial system tumbled in: In those courtroom contests, what happens to the human realities of offenders and victims?...
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Restorative criminal justice.
by Dancig-Rosenberg, Hadar
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Cardozo Law Review. 34:2313-2346. This Article develops a model that integrates restorative justice within the conventional punitive system of criminal responsibility and punishment Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that restorative justice should form a...
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The legisltative framework regarding bullying in South African schools.
by Laas, Annelie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal. 17(6):2667-2702. Bullying is a global phenomenon that has the potential of impacting on children both physically and psychologically. It sometimes causes children to drop out of school and permanently damages both the psyche and education of...
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Restorative justice, policing and insurgency: Learning from Pakistan.
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Law & Society Review. 48(3):531-561. Pakistan state law and Taliban rule of Sharia law are at different ends of a politico-legal spectrum. They share advocacy of one system of law and attraction to eradication of alternatives. Muslahathi Committees in Pakistan are used to...
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Solution-focused brief therapy and criminal offending: A family conference tool for work in restorative justice.
by Lehmann, Peter
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Journal of Systemic Therapies. 31(4):49–62. The use of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) with restorative justice is an important advancement for the criminal justice field. Together, SFBT and restorative justice may be viewed as a model of practice aimed at assisting...
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