Is It an Inside Job? An Examination of Internal Affairs Complaint Investigation Files and the Production of Nonsustained Findings.
by Liederbach, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Criminal Justice Policy Review. 18(4):353-377. Data concerning the internal investigation of complaints against police have rarely been available to researchers. The present study uses information derived through an examination of Internal Affairs complaint investigation files...
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Restorative Solutions to Small Business Crime.
by Editor, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Resolution. News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. 26 (Summer 2007):13. In March 2007 the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) released the findings of a recent survey which asked its’members how they were affected by crime. Sandra Beeton, Director of the...
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Chard and Illminster Community Justice Panel: Bringing Justice Back in to the Community.
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Resolution. News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. 26 (Summer 2007): 12. The first Community Justice Panel for adult offenders was set up in Chard (Avon and Somerset) in 2005.This innovative model, using community volunteers, delivers Restorative Justice in cases of...
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There’s no Justice, Just Us…
by Editor, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Resolution. News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. 26 (Summer 2007):8-9. Established in 1986 Southwark Mediation Centre (SMC) is one of the oldest community mediation centres in Europe. In the last issue we looked at the success of SMCs’ Hate Crimes Project which...
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Restorative Justice Research: Lessons for Practice.
by Strang, Heather
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Resolution. News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. 26 (Summer 2007):6. The event provided RJ practitioners and others interested in the field of RJ with the opportunity to hear what this most recent research shows about what works,where and how.There was also the chance...
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Human Rights Politics and Injustice: Transitional Justice in Argentina and South Africa.
by Humphrey, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) nternational Journal of Transitional Justice. 2(1):83-105. Transitional justice is about the recovery of the rule of law and justice after mass violence. In the recent history of Argentina and South Africa, human rights politics have played an important role in the transition...
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Victim Reparations in the Peruvian Truth Commission and the Challenge of Historical Interpretation.
by Garcia-Godos, Jemima
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Transitional Justice. 2(1):63-82. The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR)) has been praised for challenging positivist approaches to truth by focusing on victims and narrative interpretation....
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A Trojan Horse? Unionism, Trust and Truth-telling in Northern Ireland.
by Lundy, Patricia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Transitional Justice. 2(1):42-62. The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between trust, testimony and truth recovery processes as part of post-conflict transition. The paper uses the case study of unionist attitudes toward a...
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Truth Skepticism: An Inquiry into the Value of Truth in Times of Transition.
by Daly, Erin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) International Journal of Transitional Justice . 2(1):23-41. Truth commissions have become so fashionable in times of transition that one can readily recognize what might be called a ‘truth cascade.’ The commissions, and the reports they produce, are reputed to...
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Waikiki Youth Circles: Homeless Youth Learn Goal Setting Skills.
by Walker, Lorenn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Journal of Family Psychotherapy. 19(1):85-91. The Waikiki Youth Circle is a group process for homeless youth to find ways to meet their needs and connect to society. The Circle offers an opportunity for the youth to develop goal-setting skills....
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Local conflicts and international interventions: Victimisation of civilians and possibilities for restorative global responses.
by Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Contemporary Justice Review. 11(2):101-115. Existing knowledge suggests that available international mechanisms are not very suitable for dealing with interconnected international and local conflicts in terms of overcoming denial and bringing forth acknowledgment of atrocities...
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The Past on Trial: Birmingham, the Bombing, and Restorative Justice.
by Anderson, S. Willoughby
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) California Law Review. 96(2): 471-504. The community, media, and scholarly responses to these trials point to the way that a crime’s effects can reach far beyond the individual perpetrator and victim. In the context of unresolved civil rights-era violence, one murder or...
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Now I Am Human: Testimonies from the healing companions program in Rwanda and Burundi
by Mahler, Bethany
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) PeaceWays AGLI. 2(2). With funding from the United States Institute of Peace, the Thomas H and Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Bequest Funds, the American Friends Service Committee, and individual donors plus support from the African Great Lakes...
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Reconciliation in Bougainville: Civil war, peacekeeping and restorative justice.
by Reddy, Peter Damien
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Contemporary Justice Review. 11(2):117-130. Restorative approaches to criminal behaviour can have wide application, extending even to peacekeeping operations and rebuilding post-conflict societies. One example is reconciliation in post-civil-war Bougainville, a province of Papua...
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How restorative justice turned my life around.
by Editor, Teresa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) The Sunday Times. 11 May 2008. Time Online. Crime was a way of life for Peter Woolf – until he met two of his victims. Seeing their pain, the tough guy crumpled. He tells how their friendship turned his life around. (Publisher’s...
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