Evaluating Restorative Programmes: Reports from Two Countries.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Restorative Justice Online. June 2005 Edition. With the growing use of restorative processes, issues of effectiveness and best practices are being debated. Research and evaluation are keys to understanding these issues. At the same time, evaluation brings up questions of...
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Family Group Conferencing in Norway: Development and Status.
by Schjelderup, Liv
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Restorative Justice Online. June 2005 Edition. Since the mid-1990’s, family group conferencing has become a part of the child welfare landscape in Norway. Associate Professor Liv Schjelderup and Assistant Professor Cecilie More of the University of Stavanger, Norway...
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Truth Commission Amnesties and the International Criminal Court.
by Roche, Declan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) British Journal of Criminology. May. 17pp. Truth commissions and the new International Criminal Court (ICC) appear to be very different mechanisms for dealing with human rights abuses: the primary purpose of a truth commission is to compile an accurate record of what happened,...
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Juvenile Protection and Delinquency Prevention Policies in China.
by Wong, Dennis S. W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 37(supplement): 52-66. This paper describes the laws designed especially for the purposes of protecting juveniles and preventing delinquency in China. The Juvenile Protection Law 1991 and Preventing Juvenile Delinquency Law...
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Rwandan Gacaca: An Experiment in Transitional Justice.
by Goldstein-Bolocan, Maya
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Dispute Resolution. 355-400. For a country trying to deal with past injustice and violence while forging a democratic present and future, many challenges, complexities, and ambiguities arise. In this context, how does a country pursue a balance between victims and...
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Repairing harm and transforming African-American communities through restorative justice.
by Elechi, O. Oko
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Community Safety Journal. 4(2): 29-36. The massive incarceration of African-American men impacts negatively on African-American families and undermines their communities’ informal social control mechanisms, thereby hindering community safety efforts. To repair the harm...
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Recent legislation on offenders and victims of crime: restorative justice or cooption?
by Williams, Brian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Community Safety Journal. 4(1): 13-19. This paper reviews some recent criminal justice legislation and policy in England and Wales and considers whether the changes introduced genuinely implement new, restorative approaches or whether attempts have been made to use the rhetoric...
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Restorative Sentencing: Exploring the Views of the Public.
by Roberts, Julian V
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Social Justice Research. 17(3):315-334. Within the past decade, restorative justice has emerged as a truly global phenomenon. Although retributive justice has dominated the penal landscape, more recently, restorative principles at sentencing have attracted increased attention....
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Prelapsarian State: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Transitional Justice.
by Moon, Claire
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue Internationale de Semiotique Juidique. 13 pp. Since South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), ‘reconciliation’ is now an authoritative discourse governing political transition....
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The Politics of Risk and Young Offenders’ Experiences of Social Exclusion and Restorative Justice.
by Gray, Patricia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) British Journal of Criminology. Pp. 1-20. The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 sets out a new framework for the governance of youth crime, with the primary aim of preventing criminality among young people by addressing the risk factors associated with offending. One of the main...
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Deriving Restorative Justice from Retributivism.
by Gildert, Robin Scott
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Ph.D. dissertation, Philosophy, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. I argue that morality requires us to implement a system of restorative justice as a response to the crimes of many offenders. This claim is not novel, but the...
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Community Justice: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Restorative Justice in the Youth Community Justice Committee Setting.
by McKercher, Julie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) M.A. thesis, Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. This thesis discusses the theories and practices associated with reintegrative shaming in a community restorative justice context. It involves a study in which ten individuals were interviewed in pursuit of answers...
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The Challenges of Restorative Justice Projects in Aboriginal Communities through Social, Economic, and Political Perspectives.
by Grace, Jennifer
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) M.A. thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. This study examines the challenges of restorative justice projects in communities that are facing many social, economic and political difficulties. Often the understanding is that once communities gain control over justice...
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Anger Management – Does It Work? A Study of Anger Management Programming for Youth in Conflict with the Law.
by Richardson, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) M.A. thesis, Conflict Analysis and Management, Royal Roads University, Canada. Young offenders have various backgrounds and experiences that have led them to become in conflict with the law. Caseworkers, community members and staff active with the Community Justice Society (CJS)...
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Battered Women and the State: The Struggle for the Future of Domestic Violence Policy.
by Sack, Emily J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Wisconsin Law Review. Pp. 1657-1740. According to Emily Sack, perspectives on domestic violence have cycled from an old view of it as a psychological problem between two people with the battered person more or less equally to blame, to recognition that it was a matter of public...
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