Thinking about the demand for probation services
by Morgan, Rod
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Probation Journal: The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice. 50(1): 7-19. This article explores three questions. First, it considers who does and should determine the demand for probation services; second, why the pattern for the demand and supply of probation services is...
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‘Truth and Reconciliation’ as Risks
by Christodoulidis, Emilios A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Social & Legal Studies. 9(2): 179-204. This article aims to situate the fascinating and deeply controversial work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa within a theoretical context that may explain how its attempt to overcome the tensions between truth...
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Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
by Govier, Trudy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 32(2): 178-205. The authors propose a conception of national reconciliation based on the building or rebuilding of trust between parties alienated by conflict. It is by no means obvious what reconciliation between large groups of people amounts...
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The Imposition and Effects of Restitution in Four Pennsylvania Counties: Effects of Size of County and Specialized Collection Units
by Ruback, R. Barry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime & Delinquency. 50(2): 168-188. This study examined court records, probation records, and collection office records in four counties in Pennsylvania, which were chosen because they varied along two dimensions: (a) population size and (b) the use of specialized units...
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Penal policy making: Elitist, populist or participatory?
by Johnstone, Gerry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Punishment & Society. 2(2): 161-180. Recently, a new approach to penal policy making has emerged in the UK and elsewhere. An elitist model is giving way to a more populist model, in which governments consult ordinary people, especially those living in areas undermined by...
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Seeking truth and reconciliation in South Africa: A social work contribution
by Sacco, Therese
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) International Social Work. 47(2): 157-167. The mission, principles and values of social work impel its practitioners to engage in establishing the nature and extent of human rights violations and promoting reconciliation. Yet writings directly addressing the profession’s...
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Addressing Bullying in Schools: Theoretical Perspectives and Their Implications
by Rigby, Ken
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) School Psychology International. 25(3): 287-300. Bullying in schools is now regarded as an important social problem which schools need to address. However, recent evaluations of existing anti-bullying programs have not indicated a high level of success in the reduction of...
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Beyond ‘gulags western style’? A reconsideration of Nils Christie’s Crime Control as Industry
by Pratt, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Theoretical Criminology. 5(3): 283-314. Nils Christie in Crime Control as Industry has suggested that our spiralling prison populations, particularly in the United States, represent a move ‘towards gulags western style’. In much the same way that Zygmunt Bauman sees...
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“What, Me Ashamed?” Shame Management and School Bullying
by Ahmed, Eliza
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 41(3): 269-294. This study focuses on the prediction of self-initiated bullying from family, school, personality, and shame management variables. Reintegrative shaming theory provided a theoretical framework for data gathered from...
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Experimental Ethnography: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). 595: 204-222. Experimental and ethnographic research methods are often described as mutually exclusive. This article suggests how they could be combined in the method of “experimental...
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Mediation: A Current Review and Theory Development
by Wall Jr, James A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Journal of Conflict Resolution. 45(3): 370-391. The mediation literature of the past decade is organized into six topical areas: the determinants of mediation, mediation per se, approaches employed by mediators, determinants of the mediation approaches, outcomes of mediation,...
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Anthropological studies of national reconciliation processes
by Wilson, Richard A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Anthropological Theory. Vol 3(3): 367-387. This article examines how social researchers have evaluated the rise of institutions to create ‘national reconciliation’ in countries emerging from authoritarianism and state repression. Reconciliation has been...
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On having voice and being heard: Some after-effects of testifying before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Ross, Fiona C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Anthropological Theory. Vol 3(3): 325-341. In much recent theorizing, the memory of violence is considered to constitute the post-colonial subject. The article is placed at the intersection of two arguments about the role of voice and memory, particularly memories of violence,...
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The Effectiveness of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Perceptions of Xhosa, Afrikaner, and English South Africans
by Vora, Jay A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Black Studies. 34(3): 301-322. This article empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa as perceived by three ethnic groups in South Africa, namely, Xhosa, Afrikaners, and English. It examines whether the...
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Emotive and ostentatious punishment: Its decline and resurgence in modern society
by Pratt, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Punishment & Society. 2(4): 417-439. Over the course of the last decade or so, it has become increasingly apparent that modern penality is undergoing significant change. One aspect of this refiguring of the penal spectrum involves a growing recourse to what I refer to as...
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