Cooling out’ Victims of crime: Managing victim participation in the sentencing process in a superior sentencing court
by Booth, Tracey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Australian & New Zealand journal of Criminology 45(2) 214-230 Victim participation in the sentencing hearing by way of oral victim impact statements (VISs) is a contentious aspect of contemporary criminal justice. A particular concern is that the disjuncture between the...
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Making sense of school shootings: Comparing local narratives of solidarity and conflict in Finland
by Nurmi, Johanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Traumatology 18(3) 16-28 This article focuses on the dynamics of solidarity and conflict after incidents of mass violence. To date, two rampage school shootings have taken place in Finland in the small towns of Jokela and Kauhajoki. The community-level consequences of these...
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Local evaluations of justice through truth telling in Sierra Leone: Postwar needs and transitional justice
by Millar, Gearoid
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Hum Rights Rev 12:515-535 This article presents findings from a qualitative case study of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in rural Sierra Leone. It adds to the sparse literature directly evaluating local experiences of transitional justice mechanisms. It...
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Youth courts: Lawyers helping students make better decisions
by Volz, Gregory
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change .Vol 15 200-231 The motto of the Chester Youth Court is “Students Helping Students Make Better Decisions.” For five years, lawyers, working with a variety of community partners, have been helping Chester...
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Restorative justice program in criminal affairs
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Justica Restaurativa In the last fifteen years, the Judicial Branch of Costa Rica has initiated a modernization program for the purpose of a more equitable, accessible, efficient, and predictable service; likewise, the Institutional Strategic Plan aims to provide Justice with a...
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Histories and memories of the Indian boarding schools in Mexico, Canada, and the United States
by Dawson, Alesander S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Latin American Perspectives Indigenismo can be found in almost every country in the Americas. Most indigenistas attempted to write the Indian into their national pasts and adopted similar modernizing projects. Still, what appears to be a common history can be deceiving....
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Evaluating shame transformation in group treatment of domestic violence offenders
by Loeffler, Christopher H
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. V:54 N:4 517-536 Offender rehabilitation, pitting the rational ability of criminal justice against the seeming irrationality of criminal behavior, remains controversial. Psychology highlights the importance...
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Enhancing the legitimacy, status, and role of the international criminal court globally by using transitional justice and restorative justice strategies
by Sarkin, Jeremy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law. V.6:1 83-101 This article reviews the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and argues that, beyond that of retributivej ustice, the court ought to be playing a much greater deterrent role. It is argued that the ICC ought...
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El efecto de la mediacion como metodo alterno para la solucion de conflictos en los cosos de menores en Puerto Rico segun analizado en el caso
by Hernandez, Dra. Normaris Rodriguez
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Revista de Derecho Puertorriqueño. Vol:51: 25-52 La sociedad puertorriquefia vive esperanzada de superar los problemas sociales que aquejan desde muy temprana edad a los j6venes y nifios que se encuentran inmersos en el acometimiento de faltas, agresiones, amenazas, entre...
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Dealing with international crimes in post-war Bosnia: A look through the lens of the affected population
by Jones, Nicholas A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) European Journal of Criminology 9(5) 553-564 Debates about serious human rights violations and international crimes committed in the past appear during times of political transition. New political elites are confronted with fundamental questions of how to seek truth, establish...
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A critical new pathway towards change in abusive relationships: The theory of transition framework
by Shy, Yael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Clinical Social Work Journal. 318:418-425 This article explores the use of ‘‘Transition Framework’’ as a conceptual framework for individual and social change. William Bridges introduced Transition Framework in the 1970s as a three-pronged model...
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June 4, 2015
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The criminal child and its potential for change: A presumption in favor of rehabilitation in sentencing juvenile offenders
by Shukla, Prateek
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement. 38: 379- 398 The Federal Juvenile and Delinquency Act (FJDA)’ provides that juvenile offenders shall be transferred to a federal district court for criminal prosecution as adults only after considering whether...
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Crime, criminal justice and criminology in Slovenia
by Mesko, Gorazd
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) European journal of criminology 9(3) 323-334 Slovenia is a parliamentary democratic republic that gained its independence after the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991. The same year, Slovenia also adopted its Constitution, which formally signalled the end of the communist...
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Can money symbolize the acknowledgment? How victims’ relatives perceive monetary awards for their emotional harm
by Hulst, Liesbeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Psychol. Inj. and Law 4:4245-262 Legal systems differ markedly on how they treat the emotional harm suffered by close family members of crime or accident victims. This paper reports the results of two empirical studies examining how citizens whose child, partner, or parent was...
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