Preface: Collective Hope
by Braithwaite, Valerie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) This issue, “Hope, Power, and Governance.” The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 592(March): 6-15. In their studies, social scientists give much attention to themes of power and governance. In this preface, Valerie Braithwaite states...
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Building Institutions of Hope: Emancipation and Hope
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 592(March): 79-98. The structure of this article will be first to discuss how hope has ceased being the virtue it once was and how this may foster disengagement and depression in late-modern peoples rather than...
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Varieties of Youth Justice
by Tonry, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime and Justice. 31: 1-20. This essay explores the variation that exists in the eight jurisdictions discussed in this volume. Section I describes one of the most important single facts about youth justice systems: a separate youth justice system is not necessary to ensure that...
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Youth Justice in Great Britain
by Bottoms, Anthony
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime and Justice. 31: 21-183. The English and Scottish youth justice systems share a commitment to preventive as opposed to retributive goals, but pursue them in sharply contrasting ways. In Scotland, a unified welfare-based system, committed to the prevention of harm to...
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Youth Justice in New Zealand
by Morris, Allison
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime and Justice. 31: 243-292. The Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989 incorporated family group conferences into New Zealand’s youth justice system. Though not premised on restorative justice ideas, New Zealand’s system is broadly compatible with...
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Youth Justice in the Netherlands
by Junger-Tas, Josine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime and Justice. 31: 293-347. Youth justice in the Netherlands has been riven with ambivalences since the early 1980s. Juvenile involvement in property crime has been stable and in violent crime has increased somewhat, though less than is shown by police data. Nonetheless, the...
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Mediation 2004: The Art and the Artist
by Creo, Robert A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Penn State Law Review. 108(4): 1017-1076. Robert Creo’s professional experience and expertise stem from his many years of work as a commercial mediator. On the basis of that work he argues that mediation is an art and not a science. There is, as he puts it, a...
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Reparations Decisions and Dilemmas
by Roht-Arriaza, Naomi
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Hastings International and Comparative Law Review. 27(Winter): 157-219. Naomi Roht-Arriaza asserts that it is a basic maxim of law that harms should be remedied. All legal systems, including international human rights law, provide for redress of wrongs in some form – with...
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Apology, Legislation, and Mercy
by Weisberg, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) North Carolina Law Review. 82(4): 1415-1440. This Essay first, in Part I, reviews the current state of the jurisprudence of mercy; thus, it considers the varying definitions of the nature of the act of mercy, as well as the widely disparate views of legal scholars on the...
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Double Jeopardy: The Modern Dilemma for Juvenile Justice
by Anderson, Christina L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 152(3): 1181-1219. This Comment evaluates and exposes the realities of inflexible penalties for youth as well as unearths the spectrum of equitable alternatives to the “get-toughâ€? model. To begin the exploration of this...
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Applying Restorative Justice to Ongoing Intimate Violence: Problems and Possibilities
by Koss, Mary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Saint Louis University Public Law Review. 23(1): 289-311. Domestic violence has been and continues to be a long-standing problem in human societies. In recent decades there have been significant efforts in many countries to address and prevent such violence. Yet, claim the...
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The Constitution, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice: Lessons from South Africa and Israel
by Gross, Aeyal M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Stanford Journal of International Law. 40(Winter): 47-104. In this essay Aeyal Gross focuses on the connection between reconciliation and peace processes on the one hand, and legal and constitutional changes on the other hand. With much attention in recent years to matters of...
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Varieties of Vagueness
by Culver, Keith C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) University of Toronto Law Journal. 54(1):109-127. Reviewing Timothy A. O. Endicott’s Vagueness in Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), Keith Culver echoes the book’s title in stating that laws are often vague and that they are vague for a variety of...
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Lawyering and Its Discontents: Reclaiming Meaning in the Practice of Law
by Silver, Marjorie A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Paper on a continuing legal education (CLE) conference, “Lawyering and Its Discontents: Reclaiming Meaning in the Practice of Law,â€? Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, April 6-7, 2003. Touro Law Review. 19: 773-824. On April 6 and 7, 2003, Touro Law...
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Giving Back: A Community Service-Learning Manual for Youth Courts
by Degelman, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Chicago: Constitutional Rights Foundation As pointed out by Charles Degelman, youth courts are among the fastest growing crime intervention programs in the United States. Youth courts divert minor offenders from overloaded juvenile courts. They hold young offenders accountable...
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