Restorative Practices in Schools: Research Reveals Power of Restorative Approach, Part I.
by Porter, Abbey J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Restorative Practices E-Forum. 27 April 2007. Bethlehem, PA: International Institute for Restorative Practices. Educators around the globe are using restorative practices to proactively prevent problems like bullying and violence. Research shows that restorative approaches can...
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Creating Prison-Based Restorative Justice Projects:A Prisoners’ Guide for Getting Started
by Toews, Barb
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Philadelphia, PA: The Pennsylvania Prison Society. This guide offers tools, reflection questions and suggestions for incarcerated individuals and groups to use in creating their own restorative justice projects. The guide assumes that the reader is already knowledgeable about...
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Restorative Justice: Rebuilding the Web of Relationships. Resources for Restorative Justice Education in Prison.
by Toews, Barb
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Philadelphia, PA: The Pennsylvania Prison Society. This collection of educational resources provides restorative justice educators with basic materials to create and facilitate restorative justice workshops geared for an incarcerated audience. The collection includes information...
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Restorative Justice: Rebuilding Your Web of Relationships. A Collection of Reflections for People in Prison.
by Toews, Barb
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Philadelphia, PA: The Pennsylvania Prison Society. This workbook is a collection of restorative justice reflections that was used by the Pennsylvania Prison Society’s Restorative Justice Program. This collection includes an appendix with suggestions of ways to use the...
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Encourage Restorative Justice.
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Criminology & Public Policy. 6(4):689-696 . After noting that restorative justice as a strategy for responding to crime has universal appeal, this essay examines why this is so. At the 2000 United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, a...
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Restorative Justice practices in India: some glimpses.
by Sreekumar, R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) London: Restorative Justice Consortium. 12(4):311-332. Realisation of mistake, admittance of guilt and forgiveness are some of the essential requirements of restorative justice. The present Indian criminal justice system – a hangover of the colonial times – hardly...
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Prosecutors and the Sentencing Process in the Australian Capital Territory.
by Kent, Melissa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Paper presented at the 3rd Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the International Association of Prosecutors. Macau, China 12–14 January 2006. This paper highlights the three different sentencing options in the A.C.T. ranging from the traditional common law approach, the...
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Truth and reconciliation commission models and international tribunals: a comparison.
by Knoops, G. G. J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Paper presented at Symposium on “The Right to Self-Determination in International Law†Organised by Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF), Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights (HIHR). 29 September –...
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La justicia transicional y la justicia restaurativa frente a las necesidades de las vÃctimas.
by DÃaz Colorado, Fernando
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) PsicologÃa JurÃdica y Forense. PsicologiaCientifica.com. El presente artÃculo expone una reflexión crÃtica sobre el proceso de paz que actualmente se lleva a cabo en Colombia entre el gobierno y los grupos de autodefensa. Se plantean los fundamentos conceptuales...
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Negotiating Mediation:Aims and obstacles introducing legislative instruments on mediation in criminal cases at European Union level.
by van der Does, Vera
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Leuven: M.A. paper for MAster in European Criminology. Cetnre for Advanced Legal Studies. Katholieke Universitiet Leuven. The paper will study the thesis that since the adoption of the Framework Decision on the Standing of Victims in Criminal Proceedings of 20011 it can be...
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Achieving Balanced and Restorative Justice in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile justice System.
by De Angelo, Andrew J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Pennsylvania Council of Chief Juvenile Probation Officers. JPL productions. This 23-minute video explores the principles and programmes of the Balanced and Restorative Justice initiative in the juvenile justice system in...
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Putting Wrongs to Right: Campaigns Against Miscarriages of Justice.
by Grieve, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Criminology & Criminal Justice: An International Journal. 7(1):83-105. This study explored the factors contributing to successful outcomes for campaigns against miscarriages of justice.The analysis indicates that two main factors that have been integral to the success of...
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Advancing Accountability: Moving Toward Victim Restoration.
by Bender, Valerie R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Pennsylvania Cmssn on Crime and Delinquency. This White Paper discusses Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee’s (JJDPC’s) plan to advance accountability within juvenile justice by incorporating a victim restoration program. The...
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Lessons Learned From SVORI: Program Director Perspectives on Implementing Reentry Programming.
by Visher, Christy A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Corrections Today Magazine. 69(2):92-97. This article presents the preliminary findings from an implementation evaluation of Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiatives (SVORIs), focusing mainly on the final program director survey regarding lessons learned and...
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Emergence of Victims’ Rights in Thailand: Twenty Years After the U.N. Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power.
by Watanavanich, Prathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, Simon Cornell, UNAFEI Resource Material Series No. 70. Tokyo:United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. P 3-30 This article discusses strategic policy for victims of crime in Thailand, including major operations...
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