Youth conferencing –implementation of a statutory system of restorative justice in Northern Ireland
by Wright, Steven
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper presented at the 2nd International Association of Prosecutors European Regional Conference, held at The Hague, 20-22 March At the time of this paper, the following options were available to the Youth Court in Northern Ireland against youth who either pled guilty or were...
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Transformational lawyering: New approaches to law practice
by Wright, J Kim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) State of Justice 4 (April). A periodic publication of Friends Committee on Restorative Justice As J. Kim Wright remarks, alongside the adversarial model of law, there is a growing movement toward a new holistic legal practice and new theoretical approaches. This new model is...
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Mr. Ives’ Christmas
by Willimon, William H
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) In Reading with Deeper Eyes: The Love of Literature and the Life of Faith, 54-62. Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books. In this book, William Willimon reflects on issues of faith through interactions with works of literature. Here, Willimon looks at Mr. Ives’ Christmas by...
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After the grave in the air
by Volf, Miroslav
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Christianity Today (Week of September 17). A native of Croatia, Miroslav Volf is a theologian at Yale University. He was speaking at a prayer breakfast at the United Nations only a few blocks away when terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the two towers of the World Trade...
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Fact Sheet: What We Are Learning from Research: Victim Offender Mediation & Dialogue in Crimes of Severe Violence
by Vos, Betty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Saint Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, School of Social Work, Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking. Downloaded 11 January 2005. According to the authors of this brief fact sheet, there is anecdotal support for the healing value of mediated dialogue between victims...
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Peacemaking circles: Adopting the Minnesota Model. Part II: New developments in restorative justice
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) The Crime Victims Report 6 (March/April): 1, 12-14. This is the second part of an article reviewing the development of peacemaking circles as part of a restorative approach to justice. The first part was published in the previous issue of the Crime Victims Report. The two...
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Diversion: Reaction to crimes committed by young offenders in Norway
by Sunde, Inger Marie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper resented at the 2nd International Association of Prosecutors European Regional Conference, held at The Hague, 20-22 March. In Norway, people over the age of fifteen can be charged and sentenced for crimes they commit. Efforts to combat youth crime consist of preventive...
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Restorative justice conference held in Fairfax.
by Rudy, Patricia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Arlington Catholic Herald (March 8). A staff writer for the Arlington Catholic Herald in northern Virginia, Patricia Rudy here reports on a March 2001 conference on restorative justice sponsored by Catholic Charities and held at Saint Mary of Sorrows Parish in Fairfax, Virginia....
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Violating justice
by Ofer, Nogah
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Howard League Magazine 19 (November): 14-15. Nogah Ofer is a solicitor in England. Here she writes about injustices faced by prisoners who are victims of violence in prison. In general, the public is aware of and sympathetic toward victims of crime in society, at least where...
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Payback: Thinking about retribution
by O’Donovan, Oliver
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Books & Culture (July/August): 16-21. Oliver O’Donovan is a professor of moral and pastoral theology at the University of Oxford. Here, interacting with Michael S. Moore’s book Placing Blame: A Theory of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 1998),...
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Washington offers “John School.”
by Nicholl, Caroline G
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Crime Victims Report 6 (March/April): 1-2, 15. In this article, Caroline Nicholl describes a program in Washington, D.C., designed for men who have been arrested for soliciting prostitutes. Begun in 1999, it is a diversion program modeled on the John School in San Francisco,...
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Community Punishment Pathfinders. Interim report. Executive summary
by National Probation Service, Ernest J.P
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) London: Home Office, National Probation Service for England and Wales On behalf of the National Probation Service, a team of independent researchers undertook an evaluation of Crime Reduction Programme-Community Service (or, Pathfinder) projects begun in 2000 in England and...
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Lessons from Europe?
by Muncie, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Howard League Magazine 19 (November): 6-7 John Muncie asserts that transatlantic policy transfers in both social and criminal justice matters have become increasingly common in the past decade. He points to a number of policies and practices that have been transported from...
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Transformative or restorative justice
by Muhly, Ernest J.P
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) State of Justice 3 (November). A periodic publication of Friends Committee on Restorative Justice Ernest J. P. Muhly begins this essay posing the question of the meaning of justice, restorative justice, and transformative justice. The answer, of course, depends in part on...
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Enforcing community penalties: the relationship between enforcement and reconviction
by May, Chris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Findings 155. London: Home Office; Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. In England, for those serving a community penalty who do not comply with the conditions, enforcement consists of a series of warning letters. The warning letters can culminate in a breach...
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