Law and Atrocity: Settling Accounts in Rwanda.
by Drumbl, Mark A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Ohio Northern University Law Review. 31: 41-74. Genocidal violence afflicted Rwanda in the spring and early summer of 1994 when extremist Hutus tried to eliminate Tutsis and moderate Hutus from the country. In trying to rebuild and reconcile in the wake of this violence, Rwanda...
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The Justice of the Peace in History: Community and Restorative Justice.
by Chiste, Katherine Beaty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Saskatchewan Law Review. 68: 153-172. Advocates of restorative justice initiatives offer high hopes for communities where such programs operate or might operate. Restorative justice, in contrast to retributive justice, holds out the possibility of more than just punishing an...
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What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research?
by Maruna, Shadd
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Crime and Justice. 32: 221-320. Neutralization theory, though a popular framework for understanding deviant behavior, remains badly underdeveloped. Few attempts have been made to connect it to narrative and sociocognitive research in psychology and related fields. From this...
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Between Bail and Sentence: the conflation of dispositional options.
by Freiberg, Arie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Current Issues Criminal Justice. 15: 220-236. In 2002, report Arie Freiberg and Neil Morgan, the New South Wales (Australia) Parliament enacted the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Criminal Justice Interventions) Act. The Act introduced the “intervention program...
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Critique of Restorative Justice.
by Takagi, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Social Justice. 31(3): 147-163. As Paul Tagaki and Gregory Shank detail, restorative justice principles and processes have received widespread attention in recent decades. They have been put into practice at many levels of society and government in numerous countries. The United...
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Confidentiality in Victim Offender Mediation: A False Promise?
by Reimund, Mary Ellen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Dispute Resolution. Pp. 401-427. Confidentiality is one of the chief principles of mediation, and mediators often promise to maintain confidentiality of what is discussed in a mediation process. Mary Reimund cautions, however, that this may be a trap for the unwary,...
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Community Corrections and Restorative Justice.
by White, Rob
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 16(1): 42-56. Rob White is a professor of sociology at the University of Tasmania. With publications in the areas of juvenile justice, criminology, and crime prevention, he is also involved in prison reform issues in Tasmania. In this paper he...
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Collective Violence and Individual Punishment: The Criminality of Mass Atrocity.
by Drumbl, Mark A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Northwestern University Law Review. 99: 539-610. This Article examines the internationalization of law and order discourse and its application to individual perpetrators of organic violence. The analysis begins with a question: what punishment befits someone who murders, or is...
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Symposium on Race, Crime, and Voting: Social, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives on Felony Disenfranchisement in America: Civic Engagement and Reintegration: Toward a Community-Focused Theory and Practice.
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Columbia Human Rights Law Review. 36: 241-286. A majority of states in the United States deny voting rights to convicted felons until the end of their incarceration or the end of their probationary scheme. Several states permanently disenfranchise felons. Bazemore and Stinchcomb...
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Banishment from Within and Without: Analyzing Indigenous Sentencing under International Human Rights Standards.
by Miller, Colin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) North Dakota Law Review. 80: 253-288. After long periods of forced subjugation and assimilation to European cultures and legal systems, many indigenous groups in Canada and United States are reviving and re-applying their traditional approaches to justice. One ancient sanction...
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Assessing reoffending in restorative justice conferences.
by Hayes, Hennessey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 38(1): 77-102. Restorative justice conferencing, in response to youthful offending, has grown in popularity around the world. While there is now substantial empirical evidence that shows offenders and victims are satisfied with...
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Family group conferencing: an alternative approach to the placement of Alaska native children under the Indian Child Welfare Act.
by Hill, Laverne F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Alaska Law Review. 22(1): 89-113. The Indian Child Welfare Act establishes a cultural safeguard for Alaska Native children caught up in the child welfare system by requiring professionals to make “active efforts” toward reunifying the child with family members and...
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College Course Participation for Incarcerated Youth: Bringing Restorative Justice to Life.
by Holsinger, Kristi
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of Criminal Justice Education. 16(2): 328-339. This paper describes a course taught in restorative justice during fall semester 2003. The objective of this semester-long class was to offer a unique educational experience to incarcerated youth and traditional college...
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Evidence-Based Crime Prevention: Conclusions and Directions for a Safer Society.
by Farrington, David P
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice penale. April/avril: 337-354. In an evidence-based society, government crime prevention policy and local practice would be based on interventions with demonstrated effectiveness...
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Editorial Introduction: Restorative Justice.
by Clear, Todd R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Criminology & Public Policy. 4(1): 101-102. Restorative justice is a new movement contained within an old idea. The old idea is that justice requires of people who victimize others to “make right” what they have done by restoring the victim’s losses. The...
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