The Comprehensive Law Movement
by Daicoff, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Paper on a continuing legal education (CLE) conference, “Lawyering and Its Discontents: Reclaiming Meaning in the Practice of Law” Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, April 6-7, 2003. Touro Law Review. 19: 825-846. The comprehensive law movement is a...
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ISSP: An Experiment in Multi-Systemic Responses to Persistent Young Offenders Known to Children’s Services
by Little, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) British Journal of Criminology. 44(2): 225-240. ISSP is a multi-systemic intervention for persistent young offenders delivered jointly by police, social services and education. Based on a Netherlands programme, a variation of the approach has been widely adopted in England and...
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Children in Trouble with the Law
by Johansson, Karolin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. 17: 308-337. This article compares Child Justice in Sweden and South Africa. Criminal law is dealt with within the scope and setting of formal proceedings and sanctions. Emphasis is on those children who can be subjected to...
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Developing a Common Faith and Ethic for School Safety
by Van Patten, James J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 24-28. James Van Patten and Jerry Siegrist open their paper with the observation that school safety is a topic of national debate due to the severity of student...
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A Neo-Retributionist Concurs with Professor Nolan
by Hoffman, Morris B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) American Criminal Law Review. 40: 1567-1571. James L. Nolan, a professor of sociology, has written critically of the theory and practice of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement (e.g., drug courts). In this paper Morris B. Hoffman, a district court judge in Colorado, concurs...
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Outcomes of family group conferencing in Sweden: A 3-year follow-up
by Vinnerljung, Bo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Child Abuse & Neglect. 28: 267-287. The model of family group conferencing (FGC) for decision-making in child welfare has spread from its birth place in New Zealand to many other countries, including several in Europe. Some have contended that the wide popularity of FGC...
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Restorative justice: an alternative approach to juvenile crime
by Lawson, Catherine L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Socio-Economics. 33: 175-188. Catherine Lawson and JoAnne Katz begin this essay with the observation that, within the discipline of economics, discussions of juvenile crime and other criminal justice issues generally proceed from the “economic model of...
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Truth and Justice: Unfinished Business in South Africa
by Amnesty International
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) London/New York: Amnesty International/Human Rights Watch. February. AI Index: AFR 53/001/2003. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are concerned that the recommendations of the TRC are not being seriously and fully implemented: in particular, that reparations have not...
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Restorative Justice and Civic Accountability for Punishment
by Dzur, Albert W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Polity. 36(1): 3-22. Restorative justice is a normative theory and a reform movement in criminal justice that raises pressing questions for democratic theory. This paper draws attention to the core, democratic, values of restorative justice theory and practice. It argues that...
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Regulating safe school communities: being responsive and restorative
by Morrison, Brenda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Journal of Educational Administration. 41(6): 689-704. This paper will introduce a whole-school approach to regulating safe school communities, based on principles of restorative justice. The idea is to move beyond regulatory formalism to a stance of response regulation, whereby...
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A Suitable Amount of Crime
by Christie, Nils
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) London: Routledge. Often when we use the term ‘crime’ we speak as if it were an absolute, unambiguous concept or reality. Crime, however, is not an absolutely fixed concept. Acts which are considered criminal vary across time and across societies. In fact, any act...
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Revising the Rules: Update of Judicial Conduct Code Will Address the Changing Justice System
by Morrissey, Siobhan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) ABA Journal; February; 90, ABI/INFORM Global. Pg. 62. According to this article, the American Bar Association (ABA) is undertaking a comprehensive review of its Model Code of Judicial Conduct in efforts to accommodate the changing world in which judges work. For example, the ABA...
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Responsive Regulation in Child Welfare: Systemic Challenges to Mainstreaming the Family Group Conference
by Adams, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. 31(1): 93-116. The purpose of this article is to examine the challenges inherent in transforming child welfare services. We apply Braithwaite’s model of responsive regulation to the restorative practice of family group conferencing...
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Achieving Justice in Child Protection
by Neff, Rob
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. 31(1): 137-154. As formal systems for the protection of children have evolved in this country , certain barriers to achieving justice within the child protection system have emerged concomitantly. Specifically, these barriers involve...
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Families and the Republic
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. 31(1): 199-215. Restorative and responsive justice can be a strategy of social work practice that builds democracy bottom-up by seeing families as building blocks of democracy and fonts of democratic sentiment. At the same time, because...
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