Healing the trauma of America’s past: Restorative justice, honest patriotism, and the legacy of ethnic cleansing.
by Vogel, Howard J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Buffalo Law Review. 55(3): 981-1046. That is what brings me to my task – to speak of how storytelling might offer hope in healing the trauma of America’s past through the practices of restorative justice as a response to the legacy of what Michael Mann calls the...
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Negotiating with modernity: Amish dispute resolution.
by Miller, Wayne F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 22(2): 477-526. The hypothetical gazebo builder, however, belongs to an Amish church, an insular Christian sect. … Although historically this sect did not attempt negotiation or other bargaining methods with the government, during...
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A massacre survivor reflects on the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
by Bermanzohn, Sally Avery
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Radical History Review. 97(1): 102-109. The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC), the first of its kind in the United States, published its report on May 25, 2006. Will this project succeed in establishing some basic truth about the 1979 Greensboro Massacre? Can...
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Reparations for sexual and reproductive violence: Prospects for achieving gender justice in Guatemala and Peru.
by Duggan, Colleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) The International Journal of Transitional Justice. 2(2): 192–213. Sexual and reproductive violence (SRV) perpetrated against women during war or under authoritarian regimes is one of the most severe manifestations of gender-based violence. The authors ask how governments...
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The Increased use of “reconciliation” in criminal cases in Central Asia: A sign of restorative justice, reform or cause for concern?
by Alkon, Cynthia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal. 8(1): 41-116. … – Lawyer in Kyrgyzstan discussing reconciliation of rape cases. … ” Other authors define “restorative justice seeking to balance the concerns of the victim and the community with the need...
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Crime and punishment in contemporary Japan.
by Johnson, David T.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Crime and Justice. 36(1): 371-423. Although many people believe that Japanese crime rates have increased rapidly, they have not. Japan’s homicide rates are the lowest in the world and are lower than at any time since World War II. An apparent increase in robbery rates...
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Troubled children and children in trouble: Redefining the role of the juvenile court in the lives of children.
by Robbins, Ann Reyes
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Juvenile and Family Court Journal. 59(1): 3-15. This Essay considers the emerging research in the area of dual-jurisdiction children, often referred to as “crossover kids” – those currently or previously involved in maltreatment proceedings who have also...
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Corporate crime and making amends.
by Laufer, William S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) American Criminal Law Review. 44(4): 1307-1318. Increasing calls for limits on the use of corporate criminal liability naturally follow periods of heightened regulatory scrutiny. … In this article, we ask how the principles and practices of making amends or restorative...
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American reparations theory and practice at the crossroads.
by Yamamoto, Eric K
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) California Western Law Review. 44(1): 1-85. The path they next traverse will likely determine the long-term viability of reparations claims, not only for African Americans, but also for anyone suffering the persistent wounds of injustice. … “At best, reparation is a...
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Understanding victims and restorative justice.
by Cormier, Robert B.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Criminal Justice and Behavior. 33(3): 411-414. Restorative justice has received a great deal of attention from scholars in recent years, and there has been a spate of books published on the subject. Some of them have been edited compilations of conference proceedings or...
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Traces of a libertarian theory of punishment.
by Luna, Erik
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Marquette Law Review. 91(1): 263-294. An individual’s right to exchange his property by mutual agreement with others is considered a first principle of libertarianism and the basis for the creation of wealth and the achievement of social prosperity. … How could a...
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Restorative Justice as a Third School of Criminology.
by Basler, Stan L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Oklahoma City University Law Review. 33(1):213-236. The evidence is clear that the two traditional schools of criminology have some merit. Neither theory explains all criminal behavior nor provides solutions for it. Yet sadly, the criminal justice system and correctional complex...
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Illustrative Review of Case-Studies of Practises of Healing Justice around the World.
by Sawatsky, Jarem.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Paper presented to the 3rd Asia Pacific Mediation Forum Conference. University of the South Pacific, Suva. June 26-30. More and more groups are using the terminology of healing justice to describe local ways of responding to harms which point away from western models of state...
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Structuring the Landscape of Restorative Justice Theory.
by Pelikan, Christa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Workshop Scientific Report. Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. The workshop aimed to provide an opportunity for further theoretical analysis of the themes identified and elaborated during the last year and a half within the three sub-working groups of the...
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Late-modern rehabilitation: The evolution of a penal strategy.
by Robinson, Gwen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Punishmnet and Society. 10(4):429-445. In a number of recent analyses, rehabilitation has been portrayed as a casualty of processes of penal transformation, coming to be frequently characterized as ‘dead’ or ‘irrelevant’. This article takes issue with...
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