Restorative Justice: Victim Empowerment through Mediation and Dialogue.
by Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: VHS, 25 min. St. Paul, Minnesota: Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, University of Minnesota. This video presents three crime victims talking about their experiences and feelings related to their crimes and to victim offender...
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Restorative Justice: For Victims, Communities, and Offenders.
by Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: VHS, 25 min. St. Paul, Minnesota: Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, University of Minnesota. Highlighting commentary from experts such as Howard Zehr, Mark Umbreit and Kay Pranis, this 25 minute documentary introduces viewers to the ideas underlying the restorative...
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Video Review: Restorative Justice: For Victims, Communities and Offenders.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Restorative Justice Online. November 2005 Edition. Lynette Parker reviews Restorative Justice: For Victims, Communities and Offenders. The video provides a 25 minute presentation on restorative justice, its key programs, and how it addresses problems found in the criminal...
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Book Review: Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice.
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Restorative Justice Online. November 2005 Edition. Martin Wright reviews this book by George Pavlich exploring issues such as the power dynamics between restorative justice and the systems that fund and regulate it, whether victims are empowered or disempowered in their recovery...
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Two Recent Conferences in Latin America.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Restorative Justice Online. November 2005 Edition. The growing interest in restorative justice in Latin America has resulted in two recent conferences on the subject. These conferences provide a glimpse at the strength of the restorative justice movement in that region. In June...
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Restorative Justice in Nova Scotia.
by Clairmont, Don
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Restorative Justice Online. November 2005 Edition. The Nova Scotia Restorative Justice (NSRJ) programme started in 1999 with the objective of making restorative justice as the normal response to crime in that Province. Don Clairmont, director of the Atlantic Institute and...
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Punishment, Reintegration, and Atypical Victims.
by Ciocchetti, Christopher
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Criminal Justice Ethics. Winter/Spring: 25-38. According to Christopher Ciocchetti, any account of punishment must recognize the role of punishment in maintaining a sense of community. In this perspective, punishment affirms a set of behaviors which define a community, and as...
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Legal Frameworks for the New Governance: Processes for Citizen Participation in the Work of Government.
by Bingham, Lisa Blomgren
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) National Civic Review. Spring: 54-61. In this essay, we examine the role of new governance processes in public administration and public management and explore the existing public management and explore the existing public and administrative legal infrastructure that supports...
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Book Review: Restorative Justice: The Empowerment Model, and Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation.
by Presser, Lois
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of Sociology. 41(3): 328-332. Lois Presser reviews Restorative Justice: The Empowerment Model, by Charles K.B. Barton (Hawkins Press, 2003), and Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation, by John Braithwaite (Oxford University Press,...
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Applications of Peacemaking Circles in Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Torture Survivors.
by Schechtman, Lisa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) M.A. thesis, International Human Rights, University of Denver. In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in reaction to the horrors of Nazi Germany and World War II, repudiated the use of torture. Statements by international conventions and organizations in the...
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The Crown v Junior Sami. Notes of Judge FWM McElrea on Sentencing.
by McElrea, F W M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) District Court at Auckland, New Zealand. 14 October. Downloaded 2 November 2005. These sentencing notes refer to a case of assault that went to a restorative process. The judge refers to the report from the process and its impact on each of the participants and how this...
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Restorative Justice and Sexual Abuse – a New Zealand Perspective.
by McElrea, F W M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Paper presented at the symposium of The Australian & New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 April. Downloaded 2 November 2005. In another context, Fred McElrea has proposed that restorative justice is part of four wider...
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Accountability in the Community: Taking Responsibility for Offending.
by McElrea, F W M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Paper prepared for the Legal Research Foundation’s Conference, Re-thinking Criminal Justice: a Conference on New Initiatives in Criminal Justice, 12 and 13 May, Auckland, New Zealand. Downloaded 2 November 2005. In Fred McElrea’s perspective, the criminal justice...
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RAPE: Ten Years’ Progress?
by McElrea, F W M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Address to inter-disciplinary conference, Wellington, 29 March. Downloaded 2 November 2005. Judge McElrea discusses the possibility of using restorative justice processes to respond to rape...
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Restorative Justice – A New Zealand Perspective.
by McElrea, F W M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper presented at the conference, Modernising Criminal Justice – New World Challenges, London, 16-20 June. Downloaded 2 November 2005. Fred McElrea has been a judge in New Zealand for many years. From his experience, he advocates for a cultural change in criminal justice...
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