“The Third Millennium – Restorative Justice or More Crime in Prisons?”
by Consedine, Jim
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Sri Lanka Journal of International Law. 11: 1-47 Restorative justice is a philosophy that embraces a wide range of human emotions including healing, mediation, compassion, forgiveness, mercy, reconciliation as well as sanction when appropriate. It also recognises a world view...
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“The Victims Charter and the Release of Long-Term Prisoners”
by Johnston, Peter
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Probation Journal. 42; 8-12. Based on his recent research, Peter Johnston, Senior Probation Officer responsible for implementing the Victims Charter in West Yorkshire, considers the practice and management dilemmas presented by this new expectation of contact with the victims of...
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“The Victim and Direct Reparation”
by Brown, Marilyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (1987) Probation Journal. 34: 101-102. The current input of Government funds to develop victim support schemes could promote over-enthusiasm for direct reparation which may damage rather than help victims. Victims and volunteer support workers could be exploited in order to provide...
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Critique on Traditional Courts, Community Courts and Conflict Management.
by Bogopa, D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Acta Criminologica. 20(1): 144-155. This study examined traditional and community courts in South Africa and their ways of managing conflict, with attention to the factors that have drawn the most criticism. Among South Africa’s traditional courts, the tribal court is the...
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“The Terrorist Mind: I. A Psychological and Political Analysis”
by Miller, Laurence
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 50(2): 121-138. Part I of this two-part article describes the major forms of domestic and foreign terrorism, the motivations of the perpetrators, and the psychological, social, and political forces that...
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“The Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Offenders: The Current Landscape and Some Future Directions for Correctional Psychology”
by Wormith, J. Stephen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Criminal Justice and Behavior. 34(7): 879-892. The treatment literature on offender rehabilitation is reviewed with the purpose of deriving further direction for researchers and clinicians in the field of correctional psychology. After addressing the measurement of recidivism...
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“Criticism, Ethics, and the Problem of Rehabilitation”
by Neill, Anna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Law, Culture and the Humanities. 2: 284- 300. This essay will argue that the carceral literature classroom is at odds with the rehabilitative principles that have brought it into being. Teaching literature and criticism behind bars highlights the difference between a normalizing...
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“The myth of punitiveness”
by MATTHEWS, Roger
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Theoretical Criminology. 9(2): 175–201. There is a widespread claim in the criminological literature that the current period is characterized by a surge in punitiveness and that this ‘punitive turn’ is fuelled by a new populism. However, the key notions of...
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“Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: the Irish Case in International Perspective”
by Rolston, Bill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Social & Legal Studies. 16(2), 259–280. This article surveys the literature on the global experience of demobilization and reintegration of combatants after wars end. It examines the factors that contribute to successful programmes. Among these, the two most...
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“The Impossibility of Popular Justice”
by Fitzpatrick, Peter
June 4, 2015
Source: (1992) Social & Legal Studies. 1; 199-215 Y ARGUMENT is that in the West popular justice, as it is currently understood, is impossible. To illustrate the argument I draw on the V1 experience of the Community Boards Program in San Francisco. This programme represents the most...
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“The Exclusion–Inclusion Spectrum in State and Community Response to Sex Offenders in Anglo-American and European Jurisdictions”
by Petrunik, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 20(10): 1-21 Continental European and Anglo-American jurisdictions differ with regard to criminal justice and community responses to sex offenders on an exclusion–inclusion spectrum ranging from...
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Restorative Justice: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow–Making Sense of Shifting Perspectives in Crime Control and Criminal Justice in South Africa.
by Hargovan, H.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Acta Criminologica . 20(1):79-90. Restorative justice is the term commonly applied to a variety of dispute-resolution practices that aim to achieve more desirable outcomes than conventional forms of punishment. It is not restricted to a particular form of program, but refers to...
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Translating Gender Theory into Juvenile Justice Practice for Girls.
by Maniglia, Rebecca Hubbard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Thesis. Doctor of Philosophy in Criminal Justice. University of Illinois at Chicago. Research over the last ten to fifteen years has produced many beginning efforts at theorizing what juvenile justice should look like for young women as well as many local and state initiatives...
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“Systematic Reviews and Cost-Benefit Analyses of Correctional Interventions”
by Farrington, David P.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Prison Journal. 81(3): 339-359 Systematic reviews and cost-benefit analyses of correctional interventions are important topics in corrections in the 21st century. Systematic reviews include explicit objectives, explicit criteria for including or excluding evaluation studies,...
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“Survey of Pennsylvania Jail Wardens: An Examination of Visitation Policies Within the Context of Ecosystem Theory”
by Sturges, Judith E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Criminal Justice Review. 30(2): 141-154. In recent years, jails have become more interdependent with the community, and policy demands have helped create a system that is becoming more open. The research discussed in this article focuses on the changes involving inmate...
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