After Violence, the Possibility of Healing
by Goodwin, Jan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) O, The Oprah Magazine. 5(4):230-233, 250-253. In this article, Jan Goodwin reports on the fast-growing nationwide movement known as restorative justice. Specifically, she highlights how some victims and some offenders are, through restorative justice processes, finding a measure...
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Accountability and Governance under the New Regulatory State
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Australian Journal of Public Administration. 58(1): 90-94. According to John Braithwaite, we live today in what scholars in his field increasingly refer to as a new regulatory state. In this state many formerly public functions are being privatized (e.g., police and prisons)....
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Rewards and Regulation
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Journal of Law and Society. 29(1): 12-26. Rewards are less useful in regulation than they are in markets. Firms respond to market incentives because most markets are contestable. In markets that are not oligopolies it makes more sense to adopt a competitor mentality than a fixer...
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Sharing Power with the People: Family Group Conferencing as a Democratic Experiment
by Merkel-Holguin, Lisa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Special issue, “Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation.” Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare. 31(1): 155-173. Can family group conferencing be leveraged to promote the democratic ideals of voice, freedom, justice, fairness, equality, and respect, and...
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Making a Difference: Community Service Helps Heal Troubled Youths. (Juveniles: A Generation at Risk)
by Maloney, Dennis
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) Corrections Today. December: 74, 76, 78-79, 82-84, 149. Dennis Maloney and Gordon Bazemore pose this question. When it comes to dealing with youth-at-risk and young offenders, what approach advances genuine public safety, gives priority to the offender’s responsibility...
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Victim Impact Programs in the Federal Prison System
by Muth, William R
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) JCE (Journal of Correctional Education). 50(2): 62-66. The Bureau of Prisons has managed programs and services for crime victims since the mid-1980s. These programs are designed to provide inmates’ insights into the nature of the harm done to victims as a result of their...
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The Youth Criminal Justice Act: New Directions and Implementation Issues
by Barnhorst, Richard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Special issue, “The Youth Criminal Justice Act,” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale. 46(3): 231-250. This article explains some of the Youth Criminal Justice Act’s key provisions and...
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Introduction: La Loi sur le syst̬me de justice p̩nale pour les adolescents Рune nouvelle ̬re dans la justice canadienne applicable aux jeunes?
by Carrington, Peter J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Numéro spécial, “The Youth Criminal Justice Act,” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale. 46(3): 225-230. Ce numéro souligne le premier anniversaire de la promulgation de la Loi sur...
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Introduction: The Youth Criminal Justice Act — A New Era in Canadian Juvenile Justice?
by Carrington, Peter J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Special issue, “The Youth Criminal Justice Act,” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale. 46(3): 219-223. This issue marks the first anniversary of the proclamation into force of the Youth Criminal...
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“Forgive Me Victim For I Have Sinned”: Why Repentance and the Criminal Justice System Do Not Mix–A Lesson From Jewish Law
by Bader, Cheryl G
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Fordham Urban Law Journal. 31: 69-97. This essay will critique the GJP’s encouragement of confessions in the context of the secular American justice system via comparison with the treatment of confessions under ancient Jewish law. Specifically, this essay posits that the...
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Transformative Criminal Defense Practice: Truth, Love, and Individual Rights–The Innovative Approach of the Georgia Justice Project
by Ammar, Douglas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Fordham Urban Law Journal. 31: 49-68. The Georgia Justice Project (GJP) is a legal nonprofit organization in Atlanta, Georgia. GJP defends people accused of crimes. Win or lose, GJP staff stand with their clients while those clients attempt to rebuild their lives. The stance of...
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Community Courts and the Process of Accountability: Consensus and Conflict at the Red Hook Community Justice Center
by Malkin, Victoria
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) American Criminal Law Review. 40: 1573-1593. As Victoria Malkin writes, community courts are part of an array of legal reforms in recent decades intended to improve the efficiency and accountability of the court system. This new model takes its direction from both community...
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Redefining Criminal Courts: Problem-Solving and the Meaning of Justice
by Nolan Jr, James L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) American Criminal Law Review. 40: 1541-1565. Few would dispute that there is considerable frustration with conventional practices in the American criminal justice system…. To remedy these perceived ailments in the system, legal practitioners and academics have proposed,...
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The Politics of Problem-Solving: An Overview of the Origins and Development of Therapeutic Courts
by McCoy, Candace
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) American Criminal Law Review. 40: 1513-1534. Therapeutic justice, according to Candace McCoy, is a growing intellectual and socio-political movement. It has diverse sources, influences, and goals. Perhaps because of this, there are conflicting opinions about what the goals of...
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Cheyenne Way of Peace and Justice: The Post Lewis and Clark Period to Oklahoma Statehood
by Hart, Lawrence H
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) American Indian Law Review. 28: 261-267. Lawrence Hart is one of the traditional peace chiefs of the Cheyenne Nation. He presented these remarks at the Sixteenth Annual Sovereignty Symposium in Oklahoma on May 27, 2003. In them he recounts certain highlights of Cheyenne history...
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