Book Review: Charting progress, mapping the future: restorative justice in South Africa.
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Online. July 2007 Edition. This book, reviewed by Martin Wright, discusses the history and present status of restorative justice in South...
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Developing Restorative Juvenile Justice in Peru
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Online. July 2007 Edition. In Peru, the majority of juvenile offenders are incarcerated, even in cases of petty crime, with close to 68% having sentences of three years or less. This is true despite the inclusion of alternative sentences such as community...
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Attitudes of Victims and Offenders toward Restorative Justice.
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Online. July 2007 Edition. A June 2007 report from the Ministry of Justice in the UK reports the attitudes of victims and offenders participating in three different restorative justice schemes from 2001-2004. The evaluation shows that the majority of victims...
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“Reconstructing the role of the appropriate adult in England and Wales”
by Pierpoint, Harriet
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Criminology and Criminal Justice. 6(2): 219–237. The definition of the role of the ‘appropriate adult’ for young suspects in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code of Practice C is ambiguous and contradictory. This article argues that the role has...
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“Reconciliation in Guatemala: The Role of Intelligent Justice”
by Seils, Paul F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Race & Class. 44(1); 33-59. “The Guatemalan experience has been a mixed one. While the report was enthusiastically received by civil society, it is hard to deny that, in practical terms, much of the fruit has withered on the political vine. The Guatemalan truth...
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“Recommunalization of the disenfranchised: A theoretical and critical criminological inquiry”
by Arrigo, Bruce A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Theoretical Criminology. 10(3): 307-336 This article examines the eight-stage model of recommunalizing the homeless in a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) as developed by Arrigo and its theoretical grounding, based on principles derived from critical criminology. In particular, by...
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“Recent Trends in Sentencing and Penal Policy in New Zealand”
by Brown, Mark
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) International Criminal Justice Review. 10: 1-32. The last quarter century in New Zealand has witnessed enormous social, economic, and cultural change. Criminal justice has not been spared in this process, and the present article considers five key areas of sentencing and penal...
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“War and Reconciliation: Reason and Emotion in Conflict Resolution”
by O’Neill, Barry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of Peace Research. 42(3): 362. Review of the book War and Reconciliation: Reason and Emotion in Conflict...
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“Radical Victimology: A Critique of the Concept of Victim in Traditional Victimology”
by McShane, Marilyn D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1992) Crime & Delinquency. 38(2):258-271. Traditional victimology has not yet tapped the potential of radical criminology to assist in the explanation of social reactions to crime and crime victims. From the theoretical perspective of the radial framework it is possible to...
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Ubuntu: The Quest for an Indigenous Jurisprudence.
by English, Rosalind
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) South African Journal of Human Rights. 12:641-648. Early in May 1996 a conference of black academics was convened at the University of Venda to discuss the need for a coherent philosophy of education which would assist the process of Africanisation of South African universities....
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International Crime Justice and Children
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre...
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Youth Diversion in Tonga.
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Online. June 2007 Edition. In late 2006, the Tongan Ministry of Justice created a youth diversion programme to quickly respond to offending by young first-time offenders. This article, written by Dr. Maxwell and Sean Buckley of the Victoria University of...
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Indonesia
June 4, 2015
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Conference Statement
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Beyond Retribution...
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“‘There Must be Some Way of Dealing with Kids’: Young Offenders, Public Attitudes and Policy Change”
by Allen, Rob
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Youth Justice. 2(1): 3-12. NNew Labour’s youth justice reforms have left progressives disappointed by a failure to take more radical steps to raise the age of criminal responsibility and phase out penal custody. This paper argues that the basic punitive orientation...
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