“Victim-Perpetrator Reconciliation”
by BARCUS, Robert A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. 3(5): 515-532 Reconciliation between incest perpetrator and victim is rarely noted in the literature. The authors report their work with an uncle and niece who were able to reconcile many years after the incest had occurred. The niece entered treatment...
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“Victim-Offender Mediation in Texas: When ‘Eye for Eye’ Becomes ‘Eye to Eye'”
by Drake, Patrick Glen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) South Texas Law Review. 47: 647-676. This comment promotes a highly-effective, yet under-utilized restorative measure of Texas criminal law: Victim-Offender Mediation (VOM). Currently, many attorneys are unfamiliar with the practice. This is due to the fact that VOM sessions...
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“Victim Meets Offender: A Comparative Study on Juveniles and Adults in a Midwestern County”
by Sudipto, Roy
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 9(2): 117-133 Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) is a special mode of conflict resolution between victims and offenders. It has appeals to both parties. Face-to-face encounter is the essence of the VORP process. Mediation and...
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Homicide, family victims and sentencing: continuing the debate about Victim Impact Statements.
by Booth, Tracey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crimminal Justice. 15(3): 253-257. In October 2003, I attended a conference in Canberra — Innovation: Promising Practices for Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System organised by the ACT Office of the Victim of Crime Coordinator. Participants addressed a...
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“Vengeance, Victims and the Identities of Law”
by Sarat, Austin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Social Legal Studies. 6:(2) 163-189. Recently legal systems in the United States and Europe have r~ been confronted by stern challenges in the name of victims’ rights (Forer, 1980; Fletcher, 1995). There and elsewhere a tide of resentment is rising against a system of...
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“The Use of Electronic and Human Surveillance in a Multi-Modal Programme”
by Moore, Robin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Youth Justice. 5(1): 17-32. The Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme, which was introduced in England and Wales in 2001, combines intensified supervision with regular surveillance in an attempt to bring structure to the lives of our most persistent and serious young...
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“Unexpected Dimensions of Informal Social Control: A View from the Philippine Sitio”
by Austin, Timothy
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 38(4): 355-365 This article amplifies the finding that a number of situational variables surprisingly augment the time-honored tradition of amicable settlement among Fillipinos. Earlier reports emphasized cultural and personality...
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“Understanding Offending Among Young People”
by Jamieson, Janet
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Probation Journal. 47: 68-69 To what extent can offending be seen as an integral part of adolescence? This interesting and important study examines the complex and diverse factors associated with young people’s offending, in the context of other relevant research and...
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“Evaluating Restorative Justice”
by Tuddenham, Robin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Probation Journal. 48: 295-296. This report seeks to satisfy the need to evidence the impact of restorative justice, by presenting the results of a 15-month study into seven English schemes currently in operation. The report aims to identify the elements which constitute best...
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“Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Confronting the Past, Building the Future?”
by O'Brien, Kevin A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) International Relations. 15(2); 1-16 One of the greatest efforts the ANC-dominated Government of National Unity (GNU) made was that of securing ‘national reconciliation’ within the country. This was an attempt to confront the past and achieve a sense of justice out...
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“The Truth About Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa”
by Gibson, James L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) International Political Science Review. 26(4): 341-361 South Africa’s truth and reconciliation process is perhaps the best-known example of an institutionalized attempt to build a more democratic future by confronting human rights atrocities from the past. Yet the South...
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“Restorative Justice: Translating the Theory into Practice”
by Sarre, Rick
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) University of Notre Dame. 1: 11-25. The notion of ‘restorative justice’ has been a topic of particular interest amongst justice practitioners and academics only in the two decades. But the concept has been recognized for a hundred years and its roots lie in...
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Practice Standards for Restorative Justice. A Practitioner’s Toolkit.
by Skelton, Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Pretoria, South Africa: the Restorative Justice Initiative. This toolkit presents a set of “Practice Standards for Restorative Justice,” and consists of a set of tools to guide their usage. The intended purpose of these standards is to guide the implementation of...
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“Towards the ‘Decivilizing’ of Punishment?”
by Pratt, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Social & Legal Studies. 7(4): 487-515 This article examines the cultural significance of some new ’signs and symbols’ of punishment that are to be found taking place (albeit in uneven measure) across English-based jurisdictions at the present time. What I want...
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“Toward the Restorative Constitution: A Restorative Justice Critique of Anti-Gang Public Nuisance Injunctions”
by Howarth, Joan W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. 27: 717-756. This article critiques anti-gang public nuisance injunctions through the lens of restorative justice principles. The rhetorical justification for anti-gang injunctions is strikingly similar to the rhetoric of the restorative...
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