Political, structural, and cultural influences on England’s youth offending team practices.
by Stahlkopf, Christina
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Criminal Justice Review. 18(4): 455-472. Using varied qualitative methodologies, this research examines England’s youth offending teams (YOTs) as an organization to better understand the realities of the translation of restorative justice from policy to...
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Expanding the Arsenal for Sentencing Environmental Crimes: Would Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Restorative Justice Work?
by Boyd, Carrie C.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 32:483ff “As this Note will suggest, therapeutic jurisprudence-specifically, problem-solving courts-and restorative justice practices may offer unique and unconsidered strategies for sentencing environmental crimes....
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Punishing women: The promise and perils of contextualized sentencing for aboriginal women in Canada.
by WILLIAMS, TONI
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Cleveland State Law Review. 55(3): 269-287. “The attacks of the early 1970s on the “lawlessness” of indeterminate sentencing, primarily because of the role played by judges’ personal views and the resulting extreme disparity of outcomes, and on the...
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Evaluating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa.
by Foster, Don
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Social Justice Research. 19(4): 527-540. “Here is a book rather far away from the frivolities of postmodernism, which sets out to test hypotheses, make contributions to political science (against the tide of the ‘‘perestroika’’ movement) and which...
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Transitional justice and peace building: Diagnosing and addressing the socioeconomic roots of violence through a human rights framework.
by Laplante, Lisa J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Transitional Justice. 2(3): 331-355. Increasing numbers of violent street protests and riots caused by socioeconomic grievances often occur in countries whose truth commissions have studied similar past episodes of violence and repression. These new...
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Understanding restorative justice through the lens of critical criminology.
by Cunneen, Chris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Australasian Teaching Critical Criminology Conference, Sydney Law School, July 2007 The Critical Criminology Companion, C. Cunneen and T. Anthony, eds., pp. 290-302, Hawkins Press (an Imprint of Federation Press), 2008. “There is an uneasy relationship between critical...
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Varieties of Reconciliation
by Meierhenrich, Jens
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Law and Social Inquiry 33:195ff Drawing on this new conceptualism, this article analyzes the much talked about notion of “reconciliation.” … Conceptualization involves moving from a “background concept” to a “systematized concept” (529)....
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ABOUT WOMEN, WAR AND DARFUR: THE CONTINUING QUEST FOR GENDER VIOLENCE JUSTICE
by Schneider, Mary Deutsch
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) North Dakota Law Review 83:915ff While the laws of warfare have, for centuries, both implicitly and explicitly prohibited rape of combatants and noncombatants, those prohibitions were enlarged by the Rome Statute and the Tribunals to include other forms of sexual violence,...
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ABOUT WOMEN, WAR AND DARFUR: THE CONTINUING QUEST FOR GENDER VIOLENCE JUSTICE
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) North Dakota Law Review 83:915ff While the laws of warfare have, for centuries, both implicitly and explicitly prohibited rape of combatants and noncombatants, those prohibitions were enlarged by the Rome Statute and the Tribunals to include other forms of sexual violence,...
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What is the point of international criminal justice?
by Damaska, Mirjan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Chicago-Kent Law Review. 83(1): 329-365. While deterrence may lend support to doctrines of responsibility that are insensitive to the degree of personal guilt, the insensitivity could make more difficult the acceptance of courts’ decisions in communities affected by...
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Microscopic and macroscopic responses to inequalities in the governance of security: respective experiments in South Africa and Northern Ireland.
by Shearing, Clifford
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Transformation JOurnal. 49:25-54. To reiterate, our focus is on particular developments in the governance of security that respond to general trends in governance. What makes these developments relevant for our purposes is that they self-consciously critique, and then respond...
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Aboriginal Healing Circle Models Addressing Child Sexual Assault.
by Young, Mandy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) The Winston Memotial Churchill Trust of Australia. While managing the Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce (ACSAT) for the NSW Attorney General’s Department, I met so many Aboriginal people across the state that have been failed by the criminal justice and child...
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Circle sentencing harsher than jail.
by McKeen, Scott
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Edmonton Star Journal. Wednesday, 06 June. This newspaper article shares the perspective of the reporter who observed a community conference related to the death of a teenage boy as result from a prank. It describes the powerful interaction among the participants and...
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Interventions that work: dealing with young people in conflict with the law.
by Grant, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Paper presented at the Young People, Crime and Community Safety: Engagement and Early Intervention. Australian Institute of Criminology Conference. RACV Club, Melbourne, Australia. 25-26 February. This will not be a theoretical talk about “what works†in youth...
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“It’s not world peace, but …” restorative justice: analysis of recidivism rates in Campbell Law School’s juvenile justice project.(A Practical Guide to Alternative Dispute Resolution in North Carolina).
by Kerrigan, Jennifer L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Campbell Law Review. 30(2):339-361. This Comment explores victim-offender mediation and specifically the recidivism rates of the juveniles who participated in Campbell’s Juvenile Justice Project (JJP). Part II gives a brief background on the different theories of justice...
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