Making Sense of Tom: Seeing the Reparative in Restorative Justice.
by Froggett, Lynn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Journal of Social Work Practice. 21(1):103-117. This paper considers the contribution of a creative writing project to restorative youth justice though a case study in which a young offender is filmed working on a one-to-one basis with a poet over a number of weeks. The...
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Relevance of African Traditional Jurisprudence on Control, Justice, and Law: A Critique of the Igbo Experience.
by Okafo, Nonso
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies. 2(1):37-62. Native African ideas and models of law and justice are best suited for social control in African societies. Africans should therefore prefer the ideas and models for many reasons, including the fact that Native...
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Reintegrative Shaming, Shame, and Criminal Justice.
by Harris, Nathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Journal of Social Issues. 62(2):327-346. This study tested the implication of reintegrative shaming theory (RST) (Braithwaite, 1989) that social disapproval (shaming) has an effect on the emotions that offenders feel. Interviews were conducted with 720 participants who had...
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Rape, Shame and Pride. Address to Stockholm Criminology Symposium, 16 June 2006.
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. 7(2):2-16. A proposition of the theory of reintegrative shaming is that a reason some societies have lower rates of rape is that rape is unthinkable to most men in those societies. This presentation shows how...
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Punishment and Democracy: The Role of Public Deliberation.
by Dzur, Albert W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Punishment and Society. 9(2): 151-175. Leading contemporary branches of punishment theory stemming from the traditional schools of consequentialism and retributivism support a role for public deliberation to secure core values communicated through punishment and to encourage...
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Public-empowering justice: Arguments from effectiveness, legitimacy and democracy, and the South African case.
by Gordon, Diana R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Punishment and Society. 9(1):49-66. In mature democracies citizens are being gradually empowered to make important decisions about how to handle crime and disorder and to assume an active role in making their communities safer. Do the justifications for this partial shift away...
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Practice What You Preach: How Restorative Justice Could Solve the Judicial Problems in Clergy Sexual Abuse Cases .
by Grimes, Diana L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Washington and Lee Law Review. 63(4):1693-1741. This Note proposes that the best way to break this cycle would be for the Church and the offending priests to meet with the victims and settle the problems outside of the judicial system. Though victims could turn to any method of...
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The Possible Restorative Justice Functions of Qualitative Research.
by Standfield, John H.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 19(6):723-727. The author of this essay contends that there is a need to expand the use of qualitative research methods to include healing and human restoration for the researcher as well as for the researched. This will...
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Places not Cases?: Re-thinking the Probation Focus.
by Clear, Todd R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) The Howard Journal. 44(2):172-184. John Augustus, the ‘first probation officer’, carried a caseload assigned by the court. And ever since, this way of organising the probation officer’s accountability has dominated the profession. To be sure, there are plenty...
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Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
by Cole, Catherine M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Theatre Journal. 59(2007)167-187. How did the TRC’s performative conventions, modes of address, and expressive embodiment shape the experience for both participants and spectators? How is performance being used in the larger field of transitional justice and human rights...
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Patterns of Metaphor Use in Reconciliation Talk.
by Cameron, Lynne J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Discourse and Society. 18(2):197-222. In a violent world, reconciliation between perpetrators and victims offers an alternative to revenge or retaliation. In such discourse, participants must make extended efforts to explain themselves to, and to understand, the Other. This...
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Paradigms Lost: Repairing the Harm of Paradigm Discourse in Restorative Justice.
by London, Ross D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Criminal Justice Studies. 19(4):397-422. The promotion of restorative justice as a new ‘paradigm’ of criminal justice, while bringing attention to its originality, has also resulted in some unfortunate consequences, including the creation of unnecessary dichotomies....
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The Next Step: Indigenous Development of Neighborhood-Restorative Community Justice
by Gilbert, Michael J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Criminal Justice Review. 32(1):5-25. The challenge for modern crime-control policies is that they must work simultaneously across multiple environments within communities that are characterized by overlapping needs, issues, and service providers. Policy responses to crime must...
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Restorative justice in schools: a New Zealand example.
by Wearmouth, Janice
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Educational Research. 49(1):37-49. Introducing restorative practices in schools is not straightforward. It requires considerable forethought and prior planning, negotiation and deliberation. Restorative justice requires that schools do not own or completely control the process,...
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