Sentencing Juvenile Offenders in Canada: An Analysis of Recent Reform Legislation
by Roberts, Julian V
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 19(4): 413-434. Statutory reforms of the juvenile justice system came to Canada in 2003 when the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) became law. This article reviews the principal sentencing provisions and, in particular, the purposes and...
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Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation and the Prevalence of Subsequent Delinquent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis
by Nugent, William R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Research on Social Work Practice. 14(6): 408-416. This article reports the results of a meta-analytic study of the relationship between participation in victim offender mediation (VOM) and the prevalence of subsequent delinquent behavior. Method: Analyses were conducted with the...
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Sacred-secrets, justice and reconciliation
by Pritchard, Stephen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) International Journal of Cultural Studies. 3(3): 389-406. This article examines a number of discourses that surrounded a Royal Commission set up to investigate the truth about certain Australian Aboriginal ‘sacred-secret’ traditions. The central focus of this study...
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Where to Find Corrections Research: An Assessment of Research Published in Corrections Specialty Journals, 1990-1999
by Tewksbury, Richard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Prison Journal. 81(4): 419-435. Correctional research can be found in a wide range of publications, both specific to corrections and more general in focus. This research is designed to assist academics and practitioners in identifying where particular types of corrections...
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Reintegrative Shaming and Predatory Delinquency
by Zhang, Lening
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 41(4): 433-453. This study represents an attempt to test Braithwaite’s theory of reintegrative shaming with an operationalization scheme of two variables—disapproval of delinquent behavior (shaming) and forgiveness of...
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Training the Police in Ukraine
by Kenney, Dennis Jay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Police Quarterly. 5(4): 470-492. Beginning in 1999, the Police Executive Research Forum, with researchers from the Ukrainian Academy of Law Sciences, was funded by the National Institute of Justice to document and assess the U.S.-sponsored training for Ukrainian law enforcement....
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School Bullying and Tackling Strategies in Hong Kong
by Wong, Dennis S. W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 48(5): 537-553. In view of the rising problem of school bullying in Hong Kong, scholars have endeavored to study the prevalence, causes, and tackling strategies of school bullying. This article highlights...
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Reinventing Regulation Within the Corporation
by Parker, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Administration & Society. 32(5): 529-565. Compliance-oriented regulation should be understood as a holistic approach to regulatory design, implementation, monitoring, and enforcement in which the guiding principle is the achievement of regulatory outcomes....
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Reconciliation, Assimilation, and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia
by Short, Damien
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) International Political Science Review. 24(4): 491-513. Reconciliation as a peacemaking paradigm emerged as an innovative response to some of the mass atrocities and human rights violations that marked the 20th century. It provided an alternative to traditional state diplomacy...
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Mass Media and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
by Krabill, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Media, Culture & Society. 23: 567-585. South African mass media have served as both essential actors in the TRC drama, as well as the stage on which much of the drama has been performed. This article will avoid the temptation to join the extremely important normative debate...
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The Altar of Truth
by Hollyday, Joyce
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) The Other Side. May & June. Pp. 20-23. On November 3, 1979, a coalition of people gathered in a low-income neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, to demonstrate for racial and economic justice. They were fired upon by others, and a number of demonstrators were killed...
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Race, Poverty, and the Crime-Centered Response to Domestic Violence: A Comment on Linda Mills’s Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse
by Coker, Donna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Violence Against Women. 10(11): 1331-1353. Linda Mills (2003) criticizes our current crime-centered approach to domestic violence. I share her concern that this approach is harmful for women (or at least, for some women). I disagree, however, with Mills’s analysis and...
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The Mute Always Speak: On Women’s Silences at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Motsemme, Nthabiseng
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Current Sociology. 52(5): 909-932. Various studies exploring the ways ordinary women speak about their traumatic pasts under violent regimes have consistently shown how they tend to place their narratives within everyday lived experience, rather than nationalist concerns…....
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The Significance of Resources in Models of Risk
by Pranis, Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 15(6): 631-650. This study was a test of general hypotheses on the significance of resources to risk-only models. Its purpose was to test whether adding resources to models of risk would move some participants from high-risk to lower risk...
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Verdicts or Inventions? Interpreting Results From Randomized Controlled Experiments in Criminology
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) American Behavioral Scientist. 47(5, January): 575-607. The social benefits of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) would be enhanced by general recognition of three problems of their interpretation and a redefinition of their mission in relation to program development and...
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