Tensions Within the ‘New’ Youth Justice System in the United Kingdom Young People’s Experiences of Early Intervention and Restorative Justice.
by Stahlkopf, Christina
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Graduate Research In Progress, Department of Sociology, Oxford University. This paper consists of a report by Christina Stahlkopf of her ongoing research into the new youth justice system in the United Kingdom. This system is emerging based on changes in philosophy and practice...
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Victims’ Rights in Criminal Trials: Prospects for Participation
by Doak, Jonathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of Law and Society. 32(2):294-316. This paper examines the victim’s standing in a criminal trial in Great Britain against the backdrop of recent policy changes; arguments for a more radical course of reform are examined. Under common law, crime victims are widely...
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Correctional Orientation of Community Corrections: Legislative Changes in the Legally Prescribed Functions of Community Corrections 1992-2002
by Steiner, Benjamin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) American Journal of Criminal Justice. 29(2):141-159. This replication of Johnson et al.’s 1993 study of State statutes and constitutions to determine legally defined purposes of State-operated community corrections programs tests the punishment versus rehabilitation...
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Workshop 2: Enhancing Criminal Justice Reform, Including Restorative Justice.
by International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, Wendy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Item 7 of the provisional agenda, at the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 18-25 April, Bangkok, Thailand. 24 February. Downloaded 2 August 2005. This background paper for a workshop on enhancing criminal justice reform (workshop at the...
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Conferencing in Schools: Punishment, Restorative Justice, and the Productive Importance of the Process of Conversation.
by Drewery, Wendy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 14: 332-344. During the decade to 1999 in New Zealand, schools experienced more than doubling of the rates of suspension and exclusion. The higher suspension rates of Maori, males and in low decile schools were of particular...
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The Future of Probation: Reintroducing the Spiritual Dimension into Correctional Practice.
by Braswell, Michael C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Criminal Justice Review. 25(2): 207-233. This paper outlines several models of probation for the future: rehabilitation, law-enforcement, ‘broken windows’, new penology, public safety, intermediate sanction, restorative justice, balanced approach, and spiritual....
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Is It All Right for You to Talk? Restorative Justice and the Social Analysis of Penal Developments.
by Daems, Tom
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. 12(2): 132-149. The relationship between penal reform and new ideas that aim to inform penal practice on the one hand, and the (lack of) actual achievements ‘in the field’ on the other, is a privileged...
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Nahe Biti: The Philosophy and Process of Grassroots Reconciliation (and Justice) in East Timor.
by Babo-Soares, Dionisio
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 5(1, April): 15-33. UNTAET and the East Timorese have pursued formal reconciliation processes as part of the nation-building effort in newly independent East Timor. These formal reconciliation processes aim for closure and operate in the...
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The British 1998 Crime and Disorder Act: A ‘Restorative’ Response to Youth Offending?
by Antonopoulos, Georgios A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. 11(4): 386-397. The term ‘youth’ is very elastic as it means different things in different spatial and temporal contests and/or political systems. However, what these contexts and political systems have...
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Victim Participation and Sentencing in England and Italy: A Legal and Policy Analysis.
by Henham, Ralph
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. 11(3): 278-317. The internationalization of criminal justice has focused attention on the need to understand how the essentials of criminal trial processes and practices in specific jurisdictions (both national and...
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Review Article: Gluttons for Restorative Justice.
by Roche, Declan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Economy and Society. 32(4): 630-644. As Declan Roche puts the matter, criminology has become a dismal field characterized largely by futility, by a sense that “nothing works.” Even given various attempts at significant change, this mood of failure has been hard to...
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Restorative nursing: toward a philosophy of postmodern punishment.
by Gadow, Sally
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Nursing Philosophy. 4:161-7. Nursing practice in correctional settings is ethically unique. Its premise is the contradiction between causing harm (the purpose of imprisonment) and acting for patients’ good (the purpose of health care). I describe three ethical regions in...
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Book Reviews: Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-centered Child and Family Practice.
by Morris, Kate
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Child and Family Social Work. 7: 144-145. Kate Morris, Senior Lecturer at the Univeristy of Birmingham, reviews Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-centered Child and Family Practice, Gale Burford and Joe Hudson, eds., New York: Aldine De Gruyter,...
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Perceptions of Procedural Justice in Child Protection: A Study of Family Group Conferencing.
by Neff, Donald R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Ph.D. dissertation, Social Welfare, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai’i. Family Group Conferencing (FGC) is an emerging technique for planning interventions in child protection. As an emerging technique, the theoretical support and empirical research of FGC is...
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Reintegrative Shaming Among Youthful Offenders: Testing the Theory Through a Secondary Data Analysis.
by Tosouni, Anastasia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) M.S. thesis, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach The current study tested the theory of Reintegrative Shaming. Reintegrative Shaming theory has contributed much to the growing popularity of restorative justice. Nevertheless, empirical testing...
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