An integrated approach to ethical decision-making in the health team
by Botes, Annatjie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Journal of Advanced Nursing. 32(5): 1076-1082. When making ethical decisions there are different perspectives that health care professionals may use. This may lead to conflict and insufficient co-operation between the members of the health team. Two of these perspectives are the...
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A Tale of Two Plaques: Rhetoric in Cape Town
by Marback, Richard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Rhetoric Review. 23(3): 253–68. This article explores the intersections of rhetoric and space in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, by locating the spatial persistence and rhetorical resonance of two distinctly different commemorative plaques. Discussion of these...
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Trends in the Social Psychological Study of Justice
by Skitka, Linda J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Personality and Social Psychology Review. 7(4): 282–285. Justice is one of the most basic and potentially important social psychological areas of inquiry. The assumption that others will be fair is what makes social cooperation possible. This article provides a brief...
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The Value of Community Participation in Restorative Justice
by Dzur, Albert W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Social Philosophy. 35(1): 91–107. In the words of Albert Dzur and Susan Olson, restorative justice is a normative theory and reform movement oriented around bringing dialogue and reconciliation among victim, offender, and community to the center of criminal...
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Home for Good in Oregon: A Community, Faith and State Re-entry Partnership to Increase Restorative Justice
by O'Connor, Thomas P
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Corrections Today. October: 72-74, 76, 77. In the United States, faith-based prison initiatives are the subject of considerable public attention and debate. Proponents and critics wrestle over issues of constitutionality and effectiveness. The question of faith-based initiatives...
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Court Sanctioned Mediation in Cases of Acquaintance Rape: A Beneficial Alternative to Traditional Prosecution
by Hodak, Kerry M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 19: 1089-1118. Rape is a devastating physical and psychological assault on a female. Although it is prevalent, the criminal justice system in the United States is not equipped to address incidents of rape, asserts Kerry Hodak. Many...
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Restorative Justice: Are We There Yet? Responding to the Home Office’s Consultation Questions
by Gavrielides, Theo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Criminal Law Forum. 14: 385–419. On 22 July 2003, the United Kingdom government released its first national strategy document on restorative justice, officially recognising in this way the new paradigm’s potentials of improving the current punitive criminal justice...
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U.S. Colonization of Indian Justice Systems: A Brief History
by Chiago Lujan, Carol
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) WICAZO SA Review. Fall: 9-23. As Carol Chiago Lujan and Gordon Adams observe, long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, Indian nations functioned under their respective principles and forms of sovereignty, including what now would be called systems of criminal justice. When...
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Implementing Balanced and Restorative Justice: The Illinois Experience
by Ashley, Jessica
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Children’s Legal Rights Journal. 24(2): 23-36. Restorative justice models that adopt alternative ways of dealing with criminal offenders are flourishing around the country. BARJ is a restorative justice model that offers an alternative to the formal juvenile justice...
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Criminal Law and Crime Policy
by Gordon, D
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 2958-2962. In this encyclopedia article, D. Gordon surveys recent developments and trends in criminal law and crime policy. As Gordon remarks, while forms and functions of criminal justice systems vary around...
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Accommodating Individual Criminal Responsibility and National Reconciliation: The UN Truth Commission for East Timor
by Stahn, Carsten
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) American Journal of International Law. 95: 952-966. In both the distant past and the near past, the population of East Timor has suffered severe human rights violation. Carsten Stahn sketches the history of those violations at the outset of this paper. The most recent episode...
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Foreword
by O'Scannlain, Diarmuid F
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. 18: 303-309. This article consists of a foreword by Diarmuid O’Scannlain, a circuit judge in the United States Court of Appeals, to this issue of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. The issue...
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Victims’ Rights and the Danger of Domestication of the Restorative Justice Paradigm
by Obold-Eshleman, Christa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. 18: 571-603. Victims’ rights laws and restorative justice theory appear to converge in their mutual concern for reforming criminal justice to include the people most affected by a crime. However, asks Christa...
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Out of the Pan and into the Fire: Well-intentioned but Misguided Recommendations to Eliminate all Forms of Administrative Detention in China
by Peerenboom, Randall
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Northwestern University Law Review. 98: 991-1104. As Randall Peerenboom writes, the use and abuse of various forms of administrative detention in the People’s Republic of China have come under heavy criticism. In consequence, many legal scholars and human rights activists...
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Book Note: Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict, edited by Nigel Biggar
by Kou, Jill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Harvard Human Rights Journal. 17: 321-323. Downloaded 12 November 2004. The 1990s brought in a wave of new democracies in the world, producing a host of countries that are now entering into a phase of “transitional justice,â€? where they must come to terms...
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