Restorative Community Policing in the UK: Dorset, Cheshire and Norfolk Constables Point the Way.
by Wachtel, Joshua
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Practices E-Forum. May 6. Police in roughly 50 percent of counties in England and Wales employ some form of restorative justice (RJ). Constables in districts including Dorset (southwest), Cheshire and Lancashire (northwest), Hull (northeast) and Norfolk (east) are...
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Effects of Face-to-Face Restorative Justice Conferencing on Crime and Victim OutcomesA Campbell Collaboration Review.
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Prsentation at the Jerry Lee Crime Prevention Symposium, Hall of States Building, Washington, DC. 28 April. This PowerPoint presentation highlights an analysis of evaluations on restorative justice from 11 programmes including 2,021 offenders. It found that restorative...
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Restorative justice: a systematic review of the social work literature.
by Gumz, Edward J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services. 90(1):119-126. Restorative justice is an alternative paradigm for dealing with the effects of crime and wrongdoing that seeks to bring healing to victims, offenders, and the community. Although a key element of...
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Between Law and Culture: Rwanda’s Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality.
by Meyerstein, Ariel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Law and Social Inquiry. 32(2): 467-508. This article recounts a clash between an establishment international nongovernmental organization (NGO), Amnesty International, and the government of Rwanda over the meaning of international human rights norms in a postconflict society. It...
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Developing Ethical Identities in Young Offenders through Restorative Justice Practice in Australia.
by Hayes, Sharon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal. 8(2): 380-391. Restorative justice is firmly established in Australian juvenile justice. While the official language used to describe restorative initiatives varies across states and territories, the most common form...
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Circulos de Paz and the Promise of Peace: Restorative Justice Meets Intimate Violence.
by Mills, Linda G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) New York University Review of Law & Social Change. 33(1):127ff. abstract...
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4th Annual Restorative Approaches in Education and Residential Child Care Conference – Child, Youth, Adult – Everyone Matters.
by Editor, Dave
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. 30. In February 2008, over 100 delegates met in Birmingham for the 4th Annual Restorative Approaches in Education and Residential Child Care Conference. The conference was run in ‘World Café’ style,...
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The Moral Legitimacy of Anger.
by Muldoon, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) European Journal of Social Theory 11(3): 299–314. This article seeks to contest the frequently repeated assertion that anger poses the greatest threat to transitional societies moving from authoritarianism to democracy. Against suggestions that victims of past injustices...
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Taking Stock of Violence in U.K. Schools: Risk, Regulation, and Responsibility.
by Cowie, Helen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Education and Urban Society. 40(4): 494-505. This article documents the important issues of school violence and bullying in the United Kingdom. The authors provide examples of effective interventions for preventing violence and describe some methods, grounded in a restorative...
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School Bullying Among Hong Kong Chinese Primary Schoolchildren.
by Wong, Dennis S. W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Youth and Society. 40(1):35-54. The first comprehensive survey of 7,025 Chinese primary schoolchildren found that 24% of respondents reported that they had sometimes physically bullied another child. When children observed school bullying, 56% said they immediately reported it...
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Power, Punishment and Reconciliation in the Political and Social Thought of Simone Weil.
by Hamilton, Christopher
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) European Journal of Social Theory 11(3): 315–330. The aim of this article is to explore some aspects of the significance of Simone Weil’s work for the question of reconciliation. Focusing on Weil’s notion of power, and investigating its plausibility, the...
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Poverty, negative duties and the global institutional order.
by Reitberger, Magnus
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Politics, Philosophy and Economics. 7(4):379-402. Do we violate human rights when we cooperate with and impose a global institutional order that engenders extreme poverty? Thomas Pogge argues that by shaping and enforcing the social conditions that foreseeably and avoidably...
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Moral Repair With Offenders: Ethical Issues Arising From Victimization Experiences.
by Ward, Tony
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 20(3):305-322. In this article, the authors examine the relevance of the concept of moral repair for sex offenders who have been victims of sexual or physical abuse. First, they briefly review the literature on victimization...
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Post-Traumatic Societies: On Reconciliation, Justice and the Emotions.
by Ure, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) European Journal of Social Theory. 11(3):283-297. The articles collected here all share a concern with investigating the emotional foundations required to establish stable liberal democracies in the face of past conflicts and social divisions that systematically denied or...
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Shame, Guilt and Reconciliation after War.
by Lu, Catherine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) European Journal of Social Theory. 11(3):367-383. How do experiences of shame and guilt shape or reflect the ways in which the vanquished are reconciled (or not) to the new world order established by the victors? Shame and guilt are universal experiences in the emotional...
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