Family Group Conferencing in Child Welfare: Responsive and Regulatory Interfaces
by Pennell, Joan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. 31(1, March): 117-135. A regulatory approach compels the child welfare worker to make decisions according to set procedures and prevents responding flexibly to families. Differential response is a way that child welfare is departing from...
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Managing Social Conflict — The Evolution of a Practical Theory
by Moore, David B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. 31(1, March): 71-91. This article describes the co-evolution of a process and a theory. Through the 1990s, the process known as “conferencing” moved beyond child welfare and youth justice, to applications in schools,...
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Increasing the Cultural Responsiveness of Family Group Conferencing
by Pennell, Joan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Social Work. 49(2, April): 291-300. Child welfare struggles to manage child abuse and neglect and to seek permanency for children, while being culturally responsive to the communities it serves. Family group conferencing, piloted in New Zealand and now used in the United States...
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Family Involvement Interventions in Child Protection: Learning from Contextual Integrated Strategies
by Crampton, David Stuart
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. 31(1, March): 175-198. The use of family group conferencing and related family involvement interventions in child protection is rapidly increasing in the United States and many other countries. There is some concern that the child welfare...
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The Role and Attitudes of Restorative Board Members: A Case Study of Volunteers in Community Justice
by Karp, David R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime & Delinquency 50(4, October): 487-515. Criminal justice agencies often call for partnerships with the community. In restorative and community justice initiatives, citizen volunteers often serve as decision makers in nonadversarial sanctioning. Although prior research...
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Book Review: Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice; and Crime, Victims, and Justice: Essays on Principles and Practice
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Voma Connections no. 17 (Summer): 8. Downloaded 15 September 2004. Russ Immarigeon reviews Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice, by Annalise Acorn; and Crime, Victims, and Justice: Essays on Principles and Practice, edited by Hendrik Kaptein and Marijke...
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New Zealand City Establishes Restorative Justice Library Collection
by Clague, Leslie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Voma Connections no. 17 (Summer): 5. Downloaded 15 September 2004. For the past few years, a New Zealand public library has been amassing a collection of articles, books, reports, and videos that focus on the theory and practice of restorative justice. The City of Napier,...
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Restorative Justice and the Prison System: A View from the UK
by Liebmann, Marian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Voma Connections no. 17 (Summer): 3-4. Downloaded 15 September 2004. There has been a recent burgeoning of interest in Restorative Justice (RJ) in prisons in the United Kingdom (UK), much of it dependent on the enthusiasm of local prison governors and staff, and the particular...
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Restorative Justice and Domestic Violence Resolution in Thailand
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Voma Connections no. 17 (Summer): 1, 9-16. Downloaded 15 September 2004. The research findings reported in this article reveal that parents, relatives, and neighbors are the important persons whom the spouses think of whenever they face domestic violence. Traditional Thai...
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Thinking Critically about Restorative Justice
by Cunneen, Chris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Eugene McLaughlin, Ross Fergusson, Gordon Hughes and Louise Westmarland, eds., Restorative Justice: Critical Issues. London: Sage Publications in association with The Open University. Pp. 182-194. This chapter is presented as a sympathetic critique of restorative justice. It...
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Is Restorative Justice the Way Forward for Criminal Justice?
by Ashworth, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Eugene McLaughlin, Ross Fergusson, Gordon Hughes and Louise Westmarland, eds., Restorative Justice: Critical Issues. London: Sage Publications in association with The Open University. Pp. 164-181. “Is restorative justice the way forward for criminal...
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Re-forming Justice: The Potential of Maori Processes
by McLaughlin, Eugene
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Eugene McLaughlin, Ross Fergusson, Gordon Hughes and Louise Westmarland, eds., Restorative Justice: Critical Issues. London: Sage Publications in association with The Open University. Pp. 44-53. Indigenous people in many countries are over-represented in crime, court, and...
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Critical Issues in Restorative Justice: Advancing the Agenda in Aotearoa, New Zealand
by Jülich, Shirley
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Auckland: Centre for Justice and Peace Development, Massey University. In 2002 the Centre for Justice and Peace Development (Massey University, Auckland) invited Howard Zehr to New Zealand to lead several one-day gatherings to discuss critical issues for restorative justice....
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Restorative Justice
by Strickland, Ruth Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Studies in Crime and Punishment, v. 5. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. In this book, Ruth Ann Strickland looks at how restorative justice works – the beneficial and detrimental effects and implications of restorative justice – in relation to defendants, victims,...
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Overture 1: Adopt a Study Report on Restorative Justice.
by Classis B.C. North-West, Hilary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Agenda for Synod 2003, pp. 401-422. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Reformed Church in North America. Held June 14-19, at B.J. Haan Auditorium, Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. Downloaded 15 September 2004. This overture to the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church in...
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