The Gacaca Experiment: Rwanda’s Restorative Dispute Resolution Response to the 1994 Genocide
by Raper, Jessica
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal: Pepperdine University School of Law 5 Pepp. Disp. Resol. L.J. 1 Since its rise to power in July of 1994, the Rwandan government has been committed to prosecuting all those accused of genocide. To prosecute the approximately 130,000...
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Lifting the Cover on Drug Courts: Evaluation Findings and Policy Concerns
by Sanford, J. Scott
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 49(3), pp.239-259. Drug treatment courts emerged in 1989 as a court-based solution to an enormous increase of drug –related arrests. Since their inception, drug treatment courts have been subject to...
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Diversion From Youth Courts in Five Asia Pacific Jurisdictions: Welfare or Restorative Solutions
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 50(1):5-20. This article examines how juvenile offenders are diverted from prosecution in juvenile courts in five Asia Pacific jurisdictions: Queensland, Australia; New Zealand; Hong Kong; Singapore; and...
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Forgiveness, Shaming, Shame and Bullying
by Ahmed, Eliza
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) The Australian and New Zeland Journal of Criminology vol.38 No. 3 pp.298-323, Australian National University, Australia This study predicts self-initiated bullying from three variables: shaming, forgiveness and shame. Data were collected from 1875 Bangladeshi school children...
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Democratising the Family and the State? The Case of Family Group Conferences in Child Welfare
by Holland, Sally
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of Social Policy.34(1):59-77. This article discusses the potential of family group conferences to act as a liberating intervention for families traditionally controlled by the state welfare system. Family group conferences are interventions designed to remove control of...
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Victims on Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Reparation of Human Rights Abuses in the Czech Republic
by David, Roman
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Human Rights Quarterly 27:392-435. This article examines major theoretical dilemmas underpinning measures of transitional justice in general justice and the reparation of victims of human rights violations in particular. It assesses the role of financial compensation, justice,...
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Rights Myopia in Child Welfare
by Huntington, Clare
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) UCLA Law Review 53:637. To this end, in lieu of a rights-based model, I argue that a problem-solving model would better serve the goals of the child welfare system. In this new model, the substantive goals of the child welfare system – to promote family preservation and...
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Crime, Cultural Reintegration and Community Healing: Narrative of an Inuit Community
by Burkhardt, Kate J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Through the Department of Psycology in Partial Fulfillmentof the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor. Windsor, Ontario, Canada The magnitude and severity of...
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Non-State Justice Systems and the State: Proposals for a Recognition Typology
by Connolly, Brynna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Connecticut Law Review 38 Conn. L. Rev. 239 Any examination of non-state justice systems requires an understanding of the context, political and legal, in which those systems operate. n20 This Article will attempt to survey one aspect of the possible legal and political contexts...
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The Globalization of Crime Control-The Case of Youth and Juvenile Justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions.
by Muncie, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Theoretical Criminology. 9(1): 35–64 The concept of globalization has gradually permeated criminology, but more so as applied to transnational organized crime, international terrorism and policing than in addressing processes of criminal justice reform. Based on a wide...
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Integrating Sociodrama Techniques with Restorative Justice Principles: A Socio-Justice Model
by Dahl, Brittany Portia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Presented in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Master’s Degree of Creative Arts Therapies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This research project theoretically explores how a culture of community conflict resolution may develop through the...
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Will Restorative Justice Work in Municipal Police Complaints Resolutions in British Columbia?
by Eastwood, Philip J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, Royal Roads University The landscape of British Columbia’s municipal policing began to change the moment that The Honorable Mr. Justice Wallace Oppal’s report Closing the Gap was published in 1994. The report produced over...
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Reconciling the Past: Japan’s Wartime Atrocities and the Legacies of Post-War Narrative Tensions between Japan, China and South Korea
by Sugama, Terence
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts: Department of Political Science, Calgary, Alberta This thesis will examine the role of narrative in shaping the Japanese account of its war past in...
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Exploring Restorative Justice in Saskatchewan
by Tomporowski, Barbara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Social Studies: University of Regina This study explores the practice of restorative justice in community-based agencies across...
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Modes of Participation in Mass Atrocity
by Osiel, Mark J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Cornell International Law Journal 38:793. In my remarks today, I am going to focus on the question of how to hold the “big fish” responsible for the misconduct of the “small fry.” It is equally relevant to the trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam...
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