Indigenous Nations’ rights in the balance: An analysis of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
by White Face, Charmaine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) St. Paul, MN: LIving Justice Press. Between 1994 and 2007, three different versions of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples were passed by various bodies of the United Nations, culminating in the final version passed by the UN General Assembly. Significant...
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Dancing with the energy of conflict and trauma.
by Umbreit, Mark S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Saint Paul, MN:Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking. 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...
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Restorative justice: the search for the mot juste.
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):85-90. Most of this discussion concerns the words we use as academics and practitioners among ourselves. What words should we use when talking to potential participants? There is a case for saying ‘None of the...
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Words on “Words on words’
by Walgrave, Lode
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):77-84. Nils Christie’s ‘Words on words’ refers to the top of the hill up which we are condemned to climb endlessly: a community populated by citizens granting each other space to live their lives and who are...
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Restorative justice: A new view.
by Sumalla, Josep Tamarit
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):70-76. Christie’s critical stance is correct in many ways: conflicts cannot always be resolved. At times, we can only hope to live through them and deal with them as well as possible. As restorative practices tend to...
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Participants’ chosen words: a response to ‘Words on words.’
by Shapland, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):62-69. Words are indeed important, whether in the context of conflict resolution or in any other. As TS Eliot (1962) noted when writing about cats, words are powerful, because they name beings, embody values, conjure up...
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Reflections on Nils Christie’s ‘Words on words’: remembering the past, thinking the future.
by Pelikan, Christa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):55-61. This comment is written from the perspective of an Austrian researcher working at the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology in Vienna; the IRKS has long been influenced by Nils Christie, by his thoughts and...
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Justice, power, and restorative solutions.
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):52-54. My thanks to Nils for his challenge to use all: it is important to continually rethink the basic issues we are advocating and the effectiveness of our ways of framing the debate. However, at this point in time we need to...
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In defense of restorative justice: the perils of promising less.
by Maruna, Shadd
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):47-51. The heart of his argument is the words ‘restorative justice’ and some of the discourse surrounding restorative practice may have outlasted their value and may now distort more than they enlighten our shared...
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Meditative reflections on Nils Christie’s ‘Words on words,’ through an African lens.
by Froestad, Jan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):31-46. In thinking about issues of security and justice we have, for some time, both together and separately, sought to use the richness and the variety of the institutions and practices that constitute governance across the...
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Caring and the law.
by Herring, Jonathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd. Caring and the law considers the law’s response to caring. It explores how care is valued and recognised, how it is regulated and restricted and how the values of caring are reflected in the law. It does this by examining the law’s...
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Establishing new minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime (Directive 2012/29/EU): a promising step also for the further development of restorative justice initiatives and institutions in Europe.
by Kerner, Hans-Jürgen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(3):430-437. Katrien Lauwaert’s analysis and evaluation of the recent Directive as pronounced by the European Parliament and the Council on 25 October 2012 deserve, from my point of view, full scholarly consideration. I will...
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Victim-centred restorative justice.
by van Dijk, Jan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(3):426-429. In the 1985 Council of Europe (CoE) Recommendation on the Position of the Victim in the Framework of Criminal Law and Procedure, one of the earliest European legal instruments on victims’ rights, mechanisms that...
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Restorative justice in the 2012 EU Victims Directive: a right to quality service, but no right to equal access for victims of crime.
by Lauwaert, Katrien
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(3):414-425. There have been many European and international victims’ rights instruments in the past, yet due to their weak or non-binding nature, serious issues remain in the implementation of victims’ rights...
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Putting victims in prison.
by Barr, Trevor S. A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(3):389-413. A substantial body of research exists regarding legitimacy in prisons. However, little is known still about victims’ perceptions of the Prison Service, and whether appreciating crime in terms of...
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