Does restorative justice work? An evaluation of the restorative justice programmes of Phoenix Zululand
by Geoff Harris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) in, S. Maphosa, L. DeLuca, and A. Keasley, eds., Building peace from within. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. PP. 74-84. This chapter provides a case study of a bottom-up restorative justice intervention aimed at encouraging prisoners to take responsibility for their...
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The Effect of Retributive and Restorative Sentencing on Psychological Effects of Criminal Proceedings.
by Laxminarayan, Malini
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 28(5): 938-955. Retribution and restoration have been cited as two goals of sentencing for victims. Furthermore, there is a perspective that acknowledges the overlap of these two aims, seeking to obtain restoration through retribution....
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Whiter restorativeness?: Restorative justice and the challenge of intimate violence in Aboriginal communities.
by Dickson-Gilmore, Jane
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 56(4):417-446. The issue of partner and family violence in Aboriginal settings has long presented unique challenges for communities and criminal justice. Dissatisfaction with conventional legal responses, and especially with...
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Why the impact? Negative affective change as a mediator of the effects of victim impact statements.
by Wevodau, Amy L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 29(16):2884-2903. Victim impact statements (VISs) represent a contentious legal and psychological point of debate. Current knowledge concerning the influence of VISs on jurors’ emotional states and views of offenders is unclear. Using a...
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Policy manual for victim service programs in state correctional agencies.
by English, Sharon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Association of State Correctional Administrators. In overview, the survey findings depict a hopeful beginning for the provision of victim services in departments of corrections. That 80 percent of the respondents to the survey have initiated Victim Services Units (VSUs), the...
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Compendium of international instruments applicable to juvenile justice.
by Crégut, Fabrice
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice and Terre des hommes. Section 7 of the publication lists international instruments related to restorative justice. Section 8 provides those related to...
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Reconciling the notions of restorative justice and imprisonment.
by Gavrielides, Theo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) The Prison Journal. Published online before print September 2, 2014, doi: 10.1177/0032885514548010. Restorative justice (RJ) in the secure estate is widespread internationally, although piecemeal and inconsistent in its application. It exists in the form of many practices such...
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Conferencing: A way forward for restorative justice in Europe.
by Pali, Brunilda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Final Report of JLS/2008/JPEN/043. European Forum for Restorative Justice. The aims of the research project are to first consider the existing and emerging ...
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Dancing with the energy of conflict and trauma.
by Umbreit, Mark S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform This book offers a very different way of viewing, understanding and responding to conflicts and traumatic events experienced in our lives. The focus is upon finding strength, compassion, and peace within our lives and hopefully in...
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Being with the energy of forgiveness. Lessons from former enemies in restorative dialogue.
by Umbreit, Mark S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking. University of Minnesota School of social work Abstract...
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Restorative justice, reconciliation, and peacebuilding.
by Llewellyn, Jennifer J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) New York: Oxford University Press. All over the world, the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular, and the harmonization of the sheer number of practices involved in repairing past harms. Progress towards resolving...
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Late Fragment
by Lee, Anita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Canadian Film Centre and the National Film Board of Canada In restorative encounters the parties to crime are given opportunities to present and receive additional information that can significantly modify their understanding of what took place and why. This may resolve some...
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Contact and Compromise Explaining Support for Conciliatory Measures in the Context of Violent Intergroup Conflict.
by Gertz, Marc G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Journal of Research in Crime and Deliquency. 51(5):585-619. Objectives: Informed by intergroup contact theory, this study explores the relationships between intergroup contact, perceived out-group threat, and support for conciliatory solutions to the violent conflict between...
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Genocide, justice, and Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
by Brehm, Hollie Nyseth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 30(3):333-352. More than one million people participated in the 1994 genocide against the Rwandan Tutsi. How did Rwanda, whose criminal justice infrastructure was decimated by the genocide, attempt to bring the perpetrators to justice?...
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Achieving restorative justice: Assessing contrition and forgiveness in the adult conference process.
by Halsey, Mark
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Published online before print June 30, 2014, doi: 10.1177/0004865814538433. This paper examines the key processes and outcomes of a pilot adult restorative justice programme initiated in one Australian state. We focus...
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