Restorative Juvenile Justice Legislation and Policy: A National Assessment.
by Sandra Pavelka O'Brien, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(2):100-118. While the modern day restorative justice movement continues to evolve at the state and community levels, jurisdictions have addressed juvenile justice system concerns with policy and legislative agendas. These actions...
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Restore to What? Restorative Justice and the Social Construction of the Offender.
by Pilozzi, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(2):80-99. Certain proponents of restorative justice practice have maintained that offender rehabilitation can never be restorative given the coercive nature of this type of treatment intervention. Though it can be successfully...
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Shaming Youthful Offenders: An Empirical Test of Reintegrative Shaming Theory.
by Tosouni, Anastasia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(2):53-79. This study used secondary data from the RISE project, which compared the effects of restorative conferencing with traditional court processing to test the theory of Reintegrative Shaming. A total of 249 cases were used to...
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Changing a Culture: Reflections on Eight Years of Research on Restorative Justice in Missouri’s Juvenile Courts.
by Katz, JoAnne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(2):20-38. The evolution of the use of restorative justice for juveniles in the United States has developed on a state-by-state basis. This article is a case study of one of those states, Missouri. With no legislative mandate for...
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Offender Perceptions of a Restorative Conferencing Program in a Drug Treatment Court.
by Keena, Linda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(1):80-100. The drug treatment court approach to addiction began in Florida in 1989. The first Miami drug court has been joined by almost 2000 courts functioning today around the nation (National Drug Court Institute, 2008). In...
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The Universality of Peacemaking: A Real Possibility.
by Nielsen, Marianne O
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(1):37-79. In response to Goldberg, our argument is that even though the cultural and sacred specifics of the Navajo peacemaking might not be transferable, many of the program‟s structures, practices and values are shared by...
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Defining Competency Development.
by Verrecchia, P. J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(1):25-36. This “balanced approach†is based on the philosophy of restorative justice (Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission, 1997). The purpose of this paper is to explore the “development of...
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Translating Restorative Justice into Practice: Lessons from New Zealand’s Family Conferencing Approach to Youth Offending.
by Doolin, Katherine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Restorative Justice. 4(1):1-24. The paper begins with an overview of the factors that were most influential in the development of family group conferencing in New Zealand. This is followed by an explanation of the circumstances in which conferences are...
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Finding common ground: restorative justice and its theoretical construction(s)
by Wheeldon, Johannes
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Contemporary Justice Review. 12(1):91-100. Restorative justice presents important opportunities for those who work in the criminal justice system and those interested in community building through informal mechanisms of social control. Yet fears exist that as a result of the...
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Integrating the restorative and rehabilitative models: lessons from one family group conferencing project
by Zernova, Margarita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Contemporary Justice Review. 12(1):59-75. The article will examine the relationship between restorative justice and offender rehabilitation on the basis of the evidence collected in the course of an empirical study. The study was conducted in a family group conferencing project...
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Using restorative justice to resolve historical injustices of Indigenous peoples.
by Gibbs, Meredith
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Contemporary Justice Review. 12(1):45-57. This article explores the application of restorative justice to situations of historical injustice. It argues that applying restorative justice practices and principles could maximize justice for Indigenous peoples by, first, refocusing...
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Parental Shaming and Adolescent Delinquency: A Partial Test of Reintegrative Shaming Theory.
by Losoncz, Ibolya
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 402):161-178. The past decade has seen an increase in the application of Braithwaite’s reintegrative shaming theory as a framework for restorative justice programs. However, to date the theory has received little...
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Writing the Circle: Judicially Convened Sentencing Circles and the Textual Organization of Criminal Justice.
by Cunliffe, Emma
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. 19(1):2-35. Trial court judges who work in remote northern Canadian Aboriginal communities use judicially convened sentencing circles to gather information and develop sentencing recommendations in some intimate violence cases. Proponents...
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Justicia restaurativa.
by Carrillo Hernández, Edith
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) La Ventana. N Ú M . 2 3 El interés central que tiene la propuesta restaurativa es el de subsanar los daños causados por el acto delictivo y evitar la repetición de los mismos. ¿Cómo pretenden subsanar estos daños y evitar más actos de violencia? Por medio...
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Las limitaciones que enfrentaria la instauracion de una comision de la verdad, en el proceso de transito hacia la paz entre el Estado y las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).
by EcheverrÃa RamÃrez, Andrés Eduardo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) DesafÃos. (16): 279-315 En este articulo se analizan las posibles limitaciones que enfrentaria la instauracion de una comision de la verdad, que garantice a las victimas de violaciones graves a los derechos humanos e infracdones al derecho internacional humanitario, cometidas...
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