State of Florida vs. Paul Vanbebber, No. Sc01-2558.
by Supreme Court of Florida
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Supreme Court of Florida. aThese substantial sanctions fashioned by the trial court are tailored to fit the crime and offender, and also serve in some way to attempt to repair the damage caused by his terrible act....
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A Meaningful Criminal Justice System for the Future- An English Perspective
by Baroness Scotland
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Mercer Law Review. 56(2):745-757. But societies do not stay still. Martin Luther King is owed a debt of gratitude by the United States, and by the whole world, for the moral lead he gave race and tolerance. But the issues he raised about the relationship between governments and...
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Re-Examining the Integrative Social Capital Theory of Crime.
by Katz, Rebecca S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Western Criminology Review. 4 (1): 30-54. Developmental theories of crime offer criminologists an opportunity to understand how early attachment processes and later attachment processes are linked to the development of empathy and desistance. Sampson and Laub’s classic...
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Civil Society’s Role in Promoting Alternative Sentencing Options and Offender Re-integration.
by Batley, Mike
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) address presented at the conference on Strategies to Combat Overcrowded Prisons. Pretoria, South Africa. 15 September. sharing will be drawn from those discussions last week. In essence I’m going to argue that we should adopt restorative justice as the prevailing frame of...
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The Role of Traditional Leadership on Dealing with Crime.
by Mzimela, Inkosi Mpiyezintombi
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) address presented at the conference on Strategies to Combat Overcrowded Prisons. Pretoria, South Africa. 15 September. As a result , our methods of traditional justice practices are faced with a dramatic lack of human resources and administrative capacity. Throughout the world...
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A Helping of Healing
by Keeva, Steven
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) ABA Journal. 91(11):84. It’s probably safe to say that most people would re-coil at the suggestion that they spend time with hardened criminals and the families of their victims. Not Janine Geske. A former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, she opted after five years...
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Justice Under Transitional Administration: Contours and Critique of a Paradigm
by Stahn, Carsten
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Houston Journal of International Law. 27(2):311-344. This article seeks to focus on two aspects of this paradigm : on its contours and on some of its critiques. The analysis starts with a study of the anatomy of the administration of justice under a transitional administration....
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Examining Genuine Dialogue in Victim Offender Mediation/Dialogue.
by Szmania, Susan Jennifer
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association. New York, NY. This paper aims to examine the quality of dialogue found in one particular type of victim offender mediation that is offered in cases of severe violence called Victim...
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Justice in Many Rooms
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Criminology and Public Policy. 3(4):651-654. Although there is considerable debate today on the meaning and place of “the community†in criminal justice, restorative justice, and community justice, Karp, Drakulich, Crawford, and Boyes-Watson agree there are...
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Restorative Justice: Deliberative Democracy in Action?
by Parkinson, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Australian Journal of Political Science. 39(3):505-518. This paper examines the emergence of restorative justice meetings—in which victims come face to face with offenders—and asks whether they provide an example of deliberative democracy in action. The article...
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Making Amends: Mediation and Reparations in Criminal Justice
by Rutherford, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) British Journal of Criminology.33(4):588-589. Andrew Rutherford describes a brief description of the growth of restorative justice during the...
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Intimacy and Terror: Making Peace with My Critics
by Mills, Linda G
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal. 11(12):1536-1543. This article describes a restorative approach to dealing with domestic violence. The article was written as a response to critiques of the author’s book, Insult to Injury: Rethinking...
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Repairing the harm in society: the future direction of justice ?
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Paper for meeting in Ministry of Justice, Warsaw, October 2005, during the visit of an English group on an exchange under the auspices of the British Academy and the Polish Academy of Sciences. What I should like to do is to suggest some further principles which I believe would...
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Creating Healthy Communities:An Alaskan Talking Circle
by Healthy Alaskans Partnership Council
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Volume II. Healthy Alaskans 2010. Targets and Strategies for Improved Health. State of Alaska, Department of Health and Human Services. It quickly became clear that the talking circle was the format that we sought for the strategic health planning volume of Healthy Alaskans...
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Problem Solving Courts as Agents of Change.
by Bakht, Natasha
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Canada: National Judicial Institute and National Crime Prevention Centre and Department of Justice. Problem solving courts have expanded rapidly across the United States in an attempt to find new solutions to difficult socio-legal problems. The dispute resolution model of...
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