Prisoner facilitated mediation: Bringing peace to prisons and communities.
by Kaufer, Laurel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. 16:187-219. Part II of this Article briefly describes the United States prison system and how it fails to rehabilitate prisoners, resulting in disastrous consequences for both inmates and society as a whole. Part III describes prisoner...
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The Child Justice Act: A detailed consideration of section 68 as a point of departure with respect to the sentencing of young offenders.
by Terblanche. SS
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Potchefstroom Electronic Law.Journal. 15(5):436-475. The rights in section 28 were at least in part informed by international agreements with respect to children. The most important of these is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereafter referred to as...
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Tradition versus power: When Indigenous customs and state laws conflict.
by Short, Lindsay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Chicago Journal of International Law. 15(1):376-408. Indigenous societies have received increasing attention in recent years. Notably, scholars and the international law community have gradually, but increasingly, recognired indgenous groups’ autonomy in past decades....
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The age of (guilt or) innocence: Using ADR to reform New York’s juvenile justice system in the wake of Miller v. Alabama.
by Molinoff, Morgan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. 15:297-332. This Note proposes that New York State reform its juvenile justice system to better conform to the ideals of treatment and rehabilitation espoused in Miller by using alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), and,...
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Giving victims a voice: On the problems of introducing victim impact statements in German criminal procedure.
by Braun, Kerstin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) German Law Journal. 14(9): 1819-1908. Over the course of the last decade, however, scholars, including Wemmers, have started to address the absence of VIS schemes in inquisitorial criminal justice systems and begun to contemplate whether they could be beneficial to victims in...
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Indigenous sentencing outcomes: A comparative analysis of the Nunga and magistrates courts in South Australia.
by Bond, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Flinders Law Journal. 14:359-382. Indigenous sentencing courts are touted by Australian governments as a key response to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Despite their introduction over a decade ago, research on these courts, particularly in terms of...
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Beyond the post-conflict checklist: Linking peacebuilding and transitional justice through the lens of critique.
by Sharp, Dustin N.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Chicagor Journal of International Law. 14(1):166-196. While historicaly seen as being in competition with the demands of peace, transitional justice is increasingly accepted as an important element of post-conflict peacebuilding. Along with the demobili.zation and disarmament of...
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The kids are not all right: Mandating peer mediation as a proactive anti-bullying measure in schools.
by Philipson, Jon M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. 14:81-104. Part I of this Article briefly details the current state of the bullying epidemic in America and the responding programs, other than peer mediation, which collectively have failed to empower students or failed to resolve...
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Looking back while moving forward: The evolution of Truth Commissions in Korea.
by Wolman, ANdrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal. 14(3):27-56. It is the objective of this article to begin to fill this gap in the literature by outlining in more detail the ongoing development of truth commissions in Korea. This article will first review the development of truth...
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The thorny issue of forgiveness: A psychological perspective.
by Exline, Julie Juola
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal. 13:13-33. What does it mean to forgive another person? This article will address the concept and process of forgiveness from a psychological perspective. Although psychologists often frame forgiveness as an internal process focused on...
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A decade of progress: Promising models for children in the Turkish juvenile justice system.
by McKinney, Brenda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law. 12: 13-53. Turkey has improved its approach to interacting with children in conflict with the law over the past decade, moving closer to a system that ensures its children the opportunity to strive for a better future. This Article...
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Transitional justice versus traditional justice: The Basque case.
by Bengoetxea, Joxerramon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe. 12(2): 30-58. Transitional justice is often understood as a field or a toolkit that facilitates the establishment of ‘justice” and rule of law in post-conflict societies. It is also the interdisciplinary...
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Collective reparations at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
by Sperfeldt, Christoph
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) International Criminal Law Review. 12: 457-489. One of the most distinct features of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is that it combines an extensive victim participation scheme with a reparations mandate, although civil parties are limited to seeking...
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Return within the bounds of the Pinheiro Principles: The Colombian land restitution experience.
by Attanasio, David L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Washington University Global Studies Law Review. 11(1): 1-53. In this Article, we argue that a successful program for land restitution and return for victims of forced displacement that obeys the Pinheiro Principles must take a comprehensive approach, or one that provides...
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Different expressions of Therapeutic jurisprudence in the Spanish criminal prosecution.
by Pillado Gonzalez, Esther
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) US-China Law Review. 11(5):504-513. The postulates of what is known as Therapeutic Jurisprudence seek to guide to a more humane, reinvigorating and resocializing justice, and in the Spanish Legal System we can find different manifestations of itself This paper aims to examine...
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