Good Practice Guidelines for Restorative Work with Victims and Young Offenders
by Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) International Victimology Website. Downloaded 27 October 2004. As noted at the beginning of this document, the aims and objectives of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) are grounded in restorative justice. For example, key elements in those aims and objectives...
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Victim’s Role in Restorative Justice: Is It Worthwhile for Them? An analysis of some restorative oriented instruments and what they can do for victims of crime. A critical perspective
by Vanfraechem, Inge
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) M.A. paper, European Criminology. Restorative justice is a fairly new approach to doing justice. Although quite a bit of research has already been undertaken, there is still a lot to be done. This paper will look at restorative justice, some restorative instruments and what...
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What’s Wrong with Harmless Theories of Punishment
by Bilz, Kenworthey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Chicago-Kent Law Review. 79:1215-1252. In Part I, we show that when discussing particular punishment policy proposals, academics usually insist that one cannot be both a consequentialist and a retributivist at the same time; and policies that purport to do both simultaneously...
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Statewide Initiatives to Encourage Alternative Dispute Resolution and Enhance Collaborative Approaches to Resolving Family Issues
by Pruett, Eileen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Family Court Review. 42(2): 232-245. Over the past 27 years, since the concept of the multidoor courthouse was first introduced, methods for resolving family issues have increasingly focused on less adversarial and more collaborative approaches. Infrastructures have developed in...
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Family Group Conferences: Transforming Traditional Child Welfare Policy and Practice
by Chandler, Susan M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Family Court Review. 42(2): 216-231. Family group conferencing has emerged as a child welfare system–transforming practice that fosters new collaborations between families, child welfare practitioners, and the courts. The key components of the model are explained. This...
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In the Best Interests of Children: A Proposal to Transform the Adversarial System
by Firestone, Gregory
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Family Court Review. 42(2): 203-215. In the traditional family law and child protection litigation where the court is asked to make determinations based on the best interests of a minor, the adversarial, rights-based model often fails to serve the interests of children and...
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Guest Editorial Notes: Models of Collaboration in Family Law
by Firestone, Gregory
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Family Court Review. 42(2): 200-202. Given the increasing number of collaborative conflict resolution methods emerging in the field of family and child protection law, it seems timely to devote an issue of Family Court Review to address this theme. This issue will review the...
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Compromise and deliberation: a rhetorical view of South Africa’s democratic transformation
by Salazar, Philippe-Joseph
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Social Science Information. 43(2): 145-166. The South African ‘‘compromise’’ remains unique in the history of post-colonialism (if it belongs at all to that category, which is open to debate). Ten years after Mandela’s election to the presidency,...
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Crime and Justice in France: Time Trends, Policies and Political Debate
by de Maillard, Jacques
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) European Journal of Criminology. 1(1): 111-151. Crime and insecurity have been major political issues in France during the past 20 years, and especially during the presidential election campaign of 2002. This survey focuses on empirically-based social science that is relevant to...
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Social Control in China: Applications of the Labeling Theory and the Reintegrative Shaming Theory
by Chen, Xiaoming
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 46(1): 45-63. This article delineates the underlying philosophy and functions of social control in the Chinese society. This topic is particularly interesting because specific control functions are grounded...
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A Survey of Unified Family Courts: An Assessment of Different Jurisdictional Models
by Bozzomo, James W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Family Court Review. 42(1): 12-38. The American Bar Association Coordinating Council on Unified Family Courts, with the assistance of Hofstra University’s Center for Children, Family and the Courts, recently conducted a survey of various courts and jurisdictions that...
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Teen Court Referral, Sentencing, and Subsequent Recidivism: Two Proportional Hazards Models and a Little Speculation
by Rasmussen, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime & Delinquency. 50(4): 615-635. This study extends literature on recidivism after teen court to add system-level variables to demographic and sentence content as relevant covariates. Interviews with referral agents and survival analysis with proportional hazards...
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Social and Legal Control in China: A Comparative Perspective
by Chen, Xiaoming
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 48(5): 523-536. This article exposes the reader to a different social and legal control system and a different way of thinking about crime—that of China. Chinese think positively about the nature of...
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Lessons Learned from a Child Protection Mediation Program: If At First You Succeed and Then You Don’t . . .
by Olson, Kelly Browe
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Family Court Review. 41(4): 480-496. This article discusses the U.A.L.R. child protection mediation program as well as several other child protection mediation programs in order to examine what makes a program a continuing success. Child protection mediation programs have gone...
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Book Review: Restorative justice for juveniles: Conferencing, mediation and circles, Allison Morris and Gabrielle Maxwell (eds)
by Johnston, Janet R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Punishment & Society. 6(4): 448-450. Janet R. Johnston reviews Restorative justice for juveniles: Conferencing, mediation and circles, edited by Allison Morris and Gabrielle Maxwell (Hart Publishing, 2001), 290...
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