“The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Practices: A Meta-Analysis”
by Latimer, Jeff
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) The Prison Journal. 85(2):127-144. This article provides an empirical synthesis of the existing literature on the effectiveness of restorative justice practices using meta-analytic techniques. The data were aggregated from studies that compared restorative justice programs to...
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“Building Little Safe and Civilized Communities: Community Crime Prevention With Chinese Characteristics?”
by Zhong, Lena Y.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 51(1): 52-67. This article describes a community crime prevention program in China, set against a background of rapid economic development, large internal population migration, and increasing crime rates....
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“Structure and Process in Reconciliation-Transformation Workshops: Encounters Between Israeli and Palestinian Youth”
by Bargal, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Small Group Research. 35(5):596-616. This article presents a detailed blueprint for conducting reconciliation-transformation workshops among Jewish and Palestinian youth. The workshops are based on interventions that deal with intragroup and intergroup dynamics. Conflict...
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“Battered Mothers Speak Out: Participatory Human Rights Documentation as a Model for Research and Activism in the United States”
by Slote, Kim Y.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Violence Against Women. 11(11):1367-1395. This article describes the work of the Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project, a multi-year effort that documented human rights violations against battered women and their children in the Massachusetts family court system. This...
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“Evaluation of an Inmate-Run Alternatives to Violence Project: The Impact of Inmate-to-Inmate Intervention”
by Walrath, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 16(7):697-711. The Alternative to Violence Project (AVP), a nonviolence training program run for inmates by inmates, represents at attempt to combat institutional violence. The program provides alternatives to violent behavior; it decreases the...
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“Assessing the Impact of Statutory Change: A Statewide Multilevel Analysis of Restitution Orders in Pennsylvania”
by Ruback, R. Bar
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Crime & Delinquency. 51(3):318-342. This research analyzed decisions in 170,260 restitution-eligible cases in Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1998 to infer the policies underlying the imposition of restitution when it was discretionary and to assess whether a 1995 statutory...
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“The Parish Hall Enquiry: A Community-Based Alternative to Formal Court Processing in the Channel Island of Jersey”
by Miles, Helen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Probation Journal. 51(2):133-143. The Parish Hall Enquiry system in Jersey is of great antiquity and, like the Honorary Police system upon which it depends, its origins lie in very long established forms of communal organization. Presided over by a ‘centenier’ (an...
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An Integrative Feminist Model: The Evolving Feminist Perspective on Intimate Partner Violence.
by McPhail, Beverly A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Violence Against Women. 13(8): 817-841. The feminist perspective on intimate partner violence is a predominant model in the field, although not immune to criticism. In this research, frontline workers in the violence against women movement responded to critiques of the feminist...
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“An Experiment in Peace: Reconciliation-Aimed Workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian Youth”
by Maoz, Ifat
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Journal of Peace Research. 37(6):721-736. The goal of the present study is to examine workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian youth conducted in the post-Oslo era with the aim of promoting reconciliation and peacebuilding between the sides. The workshops were organized by an...
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“Serious and Violent Young Offenders’ Decisions to Recidivate: An Assesment of Five Sentencing Models
by Odgers, Candice
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Crime and Delinquency. 49(2):179-200. “Five models of sentencing were assessed with respect to their impact on the decisions of young offenders to recidivate. The five sentencing models tested were fairness, deterrence, chronic offender lifestyle, special needs, and...
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“Alternatives to Prisons in Developing Countries: Some Lessons from Africa”
by Stern, Vivien
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Punishment & Society. 1(2):231-241. Abstract...
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“A Multiperspective Comparrison of Bullying Status Groups: Family and School Concerns”
by Braithwait
June 4, 2015
Past research suggested the importance of school and family factors in accounting for bullying. The current research examines the possibility of reliably discriminating between bullies, victims, and non-bully/non-victim (nbnv) based on these two sets of variables. Family variables include...
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“Management and Bullying: Stability and Variability Over Time”
by Ahmed, Eliza
June 4, 2015
This chapter examines the scope of shame management processes in understanding bullying/victimization in...
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“A Reciprocal Approach to Peacemaking Criminology”
by Barak, Gregg
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Theoretical Criminology. 9(2):131-152. In the process of characterizing the dialects of adversarialism and mutualism, a case is made for a reciprocal approach to peacemaking criminology. As part of the rationale for a reciprocity of making war or making peace, critics are...
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