Too Many Questions, Too Few Answers: Reconciliation in Transitional Societies
by Daly, Erin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Columbia Human Rights Law Review. 35: 661-728 With a large number of countries in recent years seeking to make the transition from a period of violence and human rights violations to a more democratic and stable society, the language of reconciliation has become prominent; the...
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The Truth of Truth Commissions: Comparative Lessons from Haiti, South Africa, and Guatemala
by Chapman, Audrey R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Human Rights Quarterly. 23: 1–43 At the outset of this paper, Audrey Chapman and Patrick Ball remark upon the twentieth century’s legacy of gross human rights violations and mass atrocities in country after country. At the end of the twentieth century and the...
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Constraints: The Un-Doing of the Ugandan Truth Commission
by Quinn, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Human Rights Quarterly. 26: 401–427 In the aftermath of a period of mass atrocity at the hands of the state, many societies struggle to find a way to repair the damage caused to the physical infrastructure in terms of things like roads, hospitals, and schools. Yet the...
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Forum on Liberalism and Punishment: Lifting the Veil on Punishment
by Garvey, Stephen P.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Buffalo Criminal Law Review. 4: 443. State punishment of a person involves a variety of possible actions including taking away that person’s property, incarcerating the person, and other forms of interfering with his or her liberty. Theories of punishment seek to explain...
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Juvenile Injustice in Wyoming
by Burman, John M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Wyoming Law Review. 4: 669-722. John Burman begins this paper by approvingly citing an admonition written about twenty five years earlier by someone else; namely, that if the Wyoming juvenile court system is to be successful, it will require a single, uniform system of courts...
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Setting standards for diversion
by Skelton, Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) CYC-Online 29 (June). Cape Town, South Africa: The International Child and Youth Care Network. Ann Skelton is a program manager in the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) Office for Child Justice in South Africa. Diversion, she writes, means giving communities a greater...
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The healing journey towards forgiveness
by Schmidt, Janet
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) CYC-Online 8 (September). Cape Town, South Africa: The International Child and Youth Care Network. Janet Schmidt is a trainer and coordinator of a conflict resolution program in Canada. One of the principles of restorative justice is that justice involves rebuilding lives and...
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NICRO programme to help child offenders change their ways
by Khumalo, Buhle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Star (10 April). Cape Town, South Africa: National Institute for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders. NICRO, operating in South Africa for a safer society, stands for the National Institute for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders. This article,...
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Restorative justice in legislation
by Kamaldien, Yazeed
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Today (2 February). Cape Town, South Africa: The International Child and Youth Care Network. In this article taken from the Cape Times, Yazeed Kamaldien writes about youth justice developments in South Africa with respect to righting wrongs and restoring balance in families and...
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Reflections on “Con Game”
by Gardner, Dan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice / Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale. 44(4):475-489. In this essay, Dan Gardner reflects on the book Con Game, a recent book by investigative journalist Michael Harris. When Con Game was published, The...
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Reading about prisons: Substance over sensationalism
by Manson, Allan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice / Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale. 44(4): 491-501. A member of the faculty of law at Queens’ University in Kingston, Ontario, Allan Manson reviews professor Michael Jackson’s book Justice...
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Domestic violence in the armed forces: using restorative mediation as a method to resolve disputes between service members and their significant others
by Fosnaught, Jerri L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 19(3): 1059-1087. Jerri Fosnaught begins this article with the observation that the armed forces have a problem. The problem is not diminishing. It may indeed be increasing. The problem consists of an alarming number of violent crimes,...
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Providing Victim Services Within a Restorative Justice Paradigm
by Seymour, Anne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Corrections Management Quarterly. 4(3): 21-29. The incorporation of “victims” within the restorative justice paradigm, which balances the rights and needs of victims, offenders, and the community, has resulted in significant progress in victims’ rights...
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Healing Hearts or Righting Wrongs?: A Meditation on the Goals of “Restorative Justice”
by Waldman, Ellen A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Special issue, “Fall 2003 Dispute Resolution Institute Symposium”, Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy. 25(2): 355-373. Only a stone could sit unmoved by the stories recounted in the public halls and private gatherings at Hamline’s symposium on...
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Ritual Wisdom and Restorative Justice
by Everett, William Johnson
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Special issue, “Fall 2003 Dispute Resolution Institute Symposium”, Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy. 25(2): 347-354. Behind the judge’s bench in our courtroom in Haywood County, North Carolina, a plaque displays a bias-relief rendering of the...
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