Forgiveness: A Miracle of Love.
by Seraphim Communications, Dana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) DVD, 15 min. St. Paul, MN: Seraphim Communications. Trinity Lutheran Church was burned to the ground by an arsonist. When Paul Keller was finally apprehended and imprisoned, one of his first visitors was Rick Rouse, pastor of the church he burned. Pastor Rouse said that he was...
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Glimmer of Hope.
by Films Media Group, Dana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) DVD, 53 min. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Films Media Group. The documentary portrays well the real emotions of loss due to crime and the struggle to rebuild one’s life. The Streufert family members disagree over the need and value for...
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Restorative Justice in Action: A Program Implementation Manual from the Longmont Community Justice Partnership.
by Title, Beverly
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Denver, CO: Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice. The Longmont Community Justice Partnership is a community-based, restorative justice program in Longmont, Colorado. The partnership involves the Longmont Police Department, Longmont Municipal Probation, St. Vrain...
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Balanced & Restorative Justice Teleconference.
by Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice, Dana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) VHS. June 18. Denver, CO: Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice. This national satellite videoconference highlights some of the key principles involved in the balanced and restorative justice model and provides guidance to agencies that want to design and implement...
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Restorative Community Juvenile Justice.
by Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice, Dana
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) VHS. Denver, CO: Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice. This new video from the Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice provides an introduction to Restorative Community Justice. This video features communities and programs that live the values of...
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Beyond Just Us.
by Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice, Dana
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) VHS, 22 min. Denver, CO: Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice, and Colorado Judicial Branch, Office of Probation Services. View restorative justice at work in Colorado, through this award winning video. The video provides an overview of the principles of...
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Repeat Performances: Why Good Reforms Go Bad & Testing the Next Wave, Restorative Justice.
by Greene, Dana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate Faculty in Criminal Justice, City University of New York. The project identifies parallel pitfalls and shared qualities in social change movements that earnestly struggle, but fail, to effect substantive benevolent penal change. Findings show that...
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Policies Transfer: The Case of Juvenile Justice in Spain.
by Fernandez Molina, Esther
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. 11: 51–76. After a cursory description of the policy transfer phenomenon (the common subject of the volume) and the supranational character of the juvenile justice, the paper tries to explain the problems that can be found...
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Effects of face-to-face restorative justice on victims of crime in four randomized, controlled trials.
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of Experimental Criminology. 1: 367–395. The growing use of restorative justice provides a major opportunity for experimental criminology and evidence-based policy. Face-to-face meetings led by police officers between crime victims and their offenders are...
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Researching Restorative Justice: Politics, Policy and Process.
by Walklate, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Critical Criminology. 13: 165–179. The purpose of this paper is to explore some questions around the process of engaging in research in restorative justice in the contemporary political and economic climate of the UK. Its key concern is to endeavour to create a framework...
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Civic Participation in Professional Domains: An Introduction to the Symposium.
by Dzur, Albert W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) The Good Society. 13(1): 3-5. The contributors to this symposium share a belief in what can be called “democratic professionalism,” the view that a number of key professions have civic roles to play in contemporary democracy and that such civic roles both strengthen...
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Democratic Professionalism: Sharing Authority in Civic Life.
by Dzur, Albert W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) The Good Society. 13(1): 6-14. This paper seeks to show how a number of professions have democratic responsibilities – to enable rather than disable citizen participation within their spheres of professional authority – that stem from specific effects of particular...
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Amnesty or Impunity? A Preliminary Critique of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC).
by Mamdani, Mahmood
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) diacritics. 32(3–4): 33–59. Fall-Winter. As Mahmood Mamdani points out, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) resulted from legislation which was a political compromise. The compromise legislation both made the TRC possible and set the limits...
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The ‘Complex’ity of Imprisonment–The Northern Ireland Experience.
by Dwyer, Clare D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Cambrian Law Review. 35: 97-114. This article will examine the thesis that Northern Ireland experiences a relatively low level of crime. It will explore the possible reasons why crime in the North has not witnessed a dramatic increase. In light of this, the article will...
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Anywhere you will find something better…than criminal law?
by Burkhardt, Sven-U.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Criminal Law Forum. 15: 353–360. Scen-U Burkhardt reviews the book Restorative justice and the law edited by Lode...
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