Belgium: From Protection Towards Accountability?
by Put, Johan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, John Muncie and Barry Goldson, eds., Comparative Youth Justice, London: Sage Publications. PP. 111-126. This chapter traces the development and current trends of the Belgium juvenile justice system. Currently in Belgium, the juvenile justice system is in a period of flux,...
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Australia: Control, Containment or Empowerment?
by Cunneen, Chris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, John Muncie and Barry Goldson, eds., Comparative Youth Justice, London: Sage Publications. PP. 96-110. This chapter presents a critical analysis of recent juvenile justice reforms in Australia. The main argument is that while the Australian Government espouses the rhetoric...
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Demythologising Youth Justice in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
by Tauri, Juan Marcellus
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, John Muncie and Barry Goldson, eds., Comparative Youth Justice, London: Sage Publications. PP. 79-95. This article presents a critique of current juvenile justice policy in New Zealand, which has been widely lauded as offering the first example of restorative justice...
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England and Wales: The New Correctionalism.
by Muncie, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) . In, John Muncie and Barry Goldson, eds., Comparative Youth Justice, London: Sage Publications. PP. 34-47. The authors focus their analysis on two main developments in juvenile justice reform: (1) the targeting of noncriminal behavior within formal systems of justice; and (2)...
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Canada: Repenalization and Young Offenders’ Rights.
by Smandych, Russell
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, John Muncie and Barry Goldson, eds., Comparative Youth Justice, London: Sage Publications. PP. 19-33. Focusing mainly on the changes ushered in by the enactment of the 1984 Young Offenders Act (YOA) and the 2002 Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), this article illustrates how...
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Rediscovering the Juvenile Justice Ideal in the United States.
by Krisberg, Barry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, John Muncie and Barry Goldson, eds., Comparative Youth Justice, London: Sage Publications. PP. 6-18. This chapter traces the evolution of the American juvenile justice system from the 1960s through the early 2000s. In 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in In re Gault,...
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Comparative Youth Justice.
by Muncie, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) London: Sage Publications Ltd. There is a widespread assumption that juvenile justice policies around the world are becoming increasingly punitive and less concerned with the protection and education of young offenders. While an examination of international juvenile justice...
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Law and Order San Diego: Teen Court Metes Out Restorative Justice.
by Williams, Kara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Community Youth Development Journal. Fall 2005:77-89. This article describes the San Diego Teen Court Program, which offers an alternative to the formal juvenile justice system for minor juvenile offenders. Since September 2001, the San Diego Teen Court has sentenced over 250...
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“Today you will be with me in paradise.â€1 – The Case for Consideration of Restorative Justice as a Component of Christian Doctrine.
by Leverton, Reed
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Restorative Justice Online. Washington, DC: Prison Fellowship International. The scope of this essay is limited to a discussion of Restorative Justice as a different way of looking at the traditional view of criminal justice, as well as how and why its fundamental goals of...
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Culture as Seedbed of Change
by Sawatsky, Jarem.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Voma Connections. Spring 2006, Number 23. pp.7-8. : Although peacebuilding processes have become popular since the 1970s, the processes and principles have been a part of indigenous people far longer. However, there is a concern of governments extending state control when they...
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Restorative Justice Defuses Conflicts Surrounding Middle School Riot
by Wolff, Patrick M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Voma Connections. Spring 2006, Number 23. pp. 5,8. In response to a Fall 2004 middle school riot in Guam involving ethnic overtones, the school asked a local non-profit community-based mediation organization to help with the situation. The organization developed a two-day...
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Hurricane Katrina, Environmental Racism & Restorative and Community Justice.
by Denning, C. Holly
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Voma Connections. Spring 2006, Number 23. pp. 3, 4, 12. This article discusses how restorative justice principles and models can be utilized in times following a disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina. As society becomes more modernized, the said modernization creates certain...
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Nevada Program Uses Mediation to Assist the Homecoming of Released Prisoners
by Strahl, Barbara T.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Voma Connections. Spring 2006, Number 23. pp.1, 10-11. Barbara Strahl manages to interweave both the personal stories and the sobering statistics related to offenders transitioning from prison to home life. The reader meets the pseudonymous Adam, who is having difficulty seeing...
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The Gacaca Tribunals in Post-Genocide Rwanda.
by Hansen, Toran
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota. Saint Paul, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. Toran Hansen delves eloquently into the Gacaca tribunals in post-genocide Rwanda by first describing the history and background of...
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Restorative Justice in Eastern Europe.
by Hansen, Toran
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota. Saint Paul, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. Toran Hansen discusses the recent shift in Eastern Europe from highly punitive justice systems to a restorative justice framework....
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