Wait ’til eight: An essential start-up guide to NOMS RJ scheme implementation.
by Thames Valley Partnership
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) London: National Offender Management Service. Eight checklists identify the critical issues that need to be addressed in order to create the minimum‘supportive environment’ necessary to nurture the development of effective RJ conferencing practice. Each checklist is...
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Mediating criminal violence: Lessons from the gang truce in El Salvador.
by Whitfield, Teresa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Oslo Forum Papers N°001 – June 2013. Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. This paper has been written while the outcomes of the gang truce in El Salvador are still unfolding. It suggests that the truce has been imperfectly managed and remains fragile, but is also a...
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Getting beyond “just†talk – making thinking visible in conferencing contexts.
by Douglas, Jane
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Paper presented at Australasian Youth Justice Conference—Changing trajectories of offending and reoffending. National Convention Centre Canberra 20-22 May 2013. Community Conferencing was introduced in Tasmania following the proclamation of the Youth Justice Act 1997 in...
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“From little things, big things grow†emerging youth justice themes in the South Pacific.
by Becroft, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Paper presented at Australasian Youth Justice Conference—Changing trajectories of offending and reoffending. National Convention Centre Canberra 20-22 May 2013. Youth justice is always susceptible to political and populist pressures. It operates in an environment where...
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Modes of criminal justice, Indigenous youth and social democracy.
by Hearfield, Colin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Conference Proceedings Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: An International Conference.2nd edition. The political question of how the will of a community is to be democratically formed and adhered to, the question of social democracy, is normatively tied to the mode of criminal...
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Restorative justice as a better practice for managing the need for rehabilitation in response to youth offending.
by Foley, Tony
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Paper presented at Australasian Youth Justice Conference—Changing trajectories of offending and reoffending. National Convention Centre Canberra 20-22 May 2013. Rehabilitation is the overriding need to address in response to juvenile criminal wrongdoing. It overshadows...
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The Justice James Muirhead Churchill Fellowship to investigate strategies for increasing the cultural integrity of court processes for Aboriginal young people and their families in the Northern Territory Youth Justice System – USA, Canada, New Zealand.
by Sharp, Jared
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) The Winston Churchill Trust of Australia. My project looks at innovative approaches in Canada, the United States and New Zealand to improve the cultural relevance of the justice system for Aboriginal people. It looks at initiatives that try to make court less formal, more...
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Survey report: Aligning restorative justice in the criminal justice system in the EU.
by Varfi, Tzeni
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Leuven: European Forum for Restorative Justice. The overall aim of the consultation was to get insights into the criminal law of the EU member states as regards to RJ practices. The focus was not to assess precisely whether and how RJ practices are implemented in their legal...
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More words on words.
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):23-30. My response to Christie’s words is ‘more words’, with these points. First, ‘conflicts’, as a term, does not sufficiently encompass all that occurs in human society when individuals,...
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Ten responses to “Words on words.”
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):20-22. Properly conceived, justice is a holistic concept that includes procedural justice, distributive justice, social justice, and restorative justice, alongside last resort to punitive justice. That said, all the Christie...
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Words on words.
by Christie, Nils
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):15-19. Restorative justice has been the general designator within the field. It appears in UN documents, in Council of Europe documents, and in articles and books. And the designation sneaks into other languages as...
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An adventure is taking off. Why Restorative Justice: An International Journal?
by Aertsen, Ivo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):1-14. The idea of creating an international journal on restorative justice is not particularly new. In the last ten years, and even before that, ideas were exchanged and plans made on a number of occasions concerning the...
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Restorative justice in theory: Addressing the shortcomings of retributive justice and undermining the rights-based critique of restorative justice.
by Hunsberger, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Undergraduate Transitional Justice Review. 4(1):2-18. In the following pages, restorative justice is discussed in both theoretical and practical terms. The difficulties inherent to defining restorative justice are discussed and the United Nations’ definition is accepted...
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Dignity, disparity and desistance: Effective restorative justice strategies to plug the “school-to-prison” pipeline.
by Mara Schiff, Terri
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Paper presented at the “Closing the School Discipline Gap: Research to Policy” conference. Washington, DC January 2013. School suspensions and expulsions resulting from zero tolerance disciplinary policies have directly expanded the “school-to-prison...
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police and restorative justice in British Columbia: Exploring the Potential.
by Kalaski, Terri
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Dissertation. MA in Restorative Justice in the University of Hull. This paper will explore what influences a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (hereafter ‘RCMP’) member in British Columbia (hereafter ‘BC’) to refer a file to restorative justice (hereafter...
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