Who owns justice? Community, state and the Northern Ireland transition
by McEvoy, Kieran
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 157-189. “…In exploring these themes in the Northern Ireland context we have chosen to focus in particular on the development of community-based...
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Refiguring the community and professional in policing and criminal justice: some questions of legitimacy
by Crawford, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 125-156. “This chapter explores one of the subterranean, and often unspoken, themes that permeate much of the debate concerning the linkage between...
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Lay elements in the criminal justice system of the Netherlands
by Malsch, Marijke
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 107-124. “…This chapter pays attention to typical features of the Dutch legal system. Among the programmes undertaken in the Netherlands to bridge...
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Sweeping the Street: civil society and community safety in Rotterdam
by van Swaaningen, Rene
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 87-106. “What is the role of civil society in the development of local crime and safety politics? That is the question I would like to address in this...
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Mapping the adoption of Family Group Conferencing in Australian States and Territories.
by Harris, Nathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Occasional Paper Series. Australian Centre for Child Protection. University of South Australia. Family Group Conferences were first legislated for in New Zealand in 1989 and since that time have captured the imagination of professionals and academics throughout the world with...
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Crime control in Germany: too serious to leave it to the people – the great exception?
by Axel Groenemeyer, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 63-86. “The ideas of community and civil society have been reintroduced into sociological and political discourses only recently by adopting perspectives...
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How civil society is on the criminal justice agenda in France
by Philip A. Milburn, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 47-62. “First, we shall look at the term ‘community’ and its political and sociological effects in the French context of a strongly...
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‘Proximity justice’ in France: anything but ‘justice and community’?
by Anne Wyvekens, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 30 – 46. “This chapter will focus on policies and practices that may appear at first sight as the nearest French equivalent to the English phrase...
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Contested ideas of community and justice
by Shapland, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In Joanna Shapland, ed., Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 1-29. “The authors of the chapters of this book, each of whom has researched the impact of innovation in criminal justice in their own country, felt...
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Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain
by Shapland, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Devon, UK: Willian Publishing. “This book is concerned to delve further into this contested relationship between criminal justice and its publics. Written by experts from different countries as a new initiative in comparative criminal justice, it reveals how different the...
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Good Punishment? Christian Moral Practice and U.S. Imprisonment
by Logan, James Samuel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Cambridge, UK: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. “…this book will suggest that a Christian social ethics of “good punishment” focused on the contemporary United States practice of imprisonment can be developed through a re/constructive critique of the...
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Video Review: Choices: on the way to peace
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online. March 2008 Edition. Choices: on the way to peace is a three session video driven small group study on issues related to forgiveness and...
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Book Review: Evil and the Justice of God
by Harris, Scott
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online. March 2008 Edition. The book Evil and the Justice of God invites Christians and others to take another look at how we define and respond to evil. This article is an excerpt of a longer review written by Scott Harris. A link to the full review is...
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South African Programme Shows Promise
by Editor, Paulo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online. March 2008 Edition. In April 2007, the Phoenix Justice and Restoration programme (JARP) began offering restorative justice and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services in the Phoenix community of the South African province of KwaZulu Natal....
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