Cross-Cultural Issues in Informal Juvenile Processes: Applying Urban Models to Rural Alaska Native Villages
by Rieger, Lisa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn,eds., Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 153-170. Alternatives to court processes — for example, youth courts — are often included as part of...
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A Restorative Framework for Community Justice Practice
by Mika, Harry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn,eds., Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 135-152. Restorative justice has grown significantly in the past twenty years. Programs that use restorative...
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Critiquing the Critics of Peacemaking Criminology: Some Rather Ambivalent Reflections on the Theory of ‘Being Nice’
by Thomas, Jim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn,eds., Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 101-134. The authors of this chapter remark that a growing number of scholars have attempted to integrate...
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Conflict Prevention and the Human Rights Framework in Africa
by Murray, Rachel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn,eds., Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 83-100. Rachel Murray begins this essay with the comment that a brief glance at Africa would suggest that...
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Criminological Discourses in Northern Ireland: Conflict and Conflict Resolution
by McEvoy, Kieran
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn,eds., Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 45-82. According to Kieran McEvoy and Graham Ellison, despite the centrality of the criminal justice system to...
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Criminological Ideas and the South African Transition
by van Zyl Smit, Dirk
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn,eds., Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 21-44. At a conference on justice, crime, and state control in South Africa in 1989, Dirk van Zyl Smit...
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Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice
by McEvoy, Kieran
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn,eds., Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 1-20. Editors and contributors to this book, Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn introduce the book in this first...
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Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice
by Newburn, Tim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. This book consists of a collection of essays exploring, from different angles, the intersection of criminology, conflict resolution, and restorative justice. The genesis of the collection stemmed from the...
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What Works and the Globalisation of Punishment Talk
by Worrall, Anne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) IN, George Mair,ed., What Matters in Probation?. Cullompton, Devon,UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 327-345. As Anne Worrall writes, in the last decade the doctrine of What Works has dominated the field of interventions with offenders. In English speaking countries, probation and...
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Getting Personal: Developments in Policy and Practice in Scotland
by McIvor, Gill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) IN, George Mair,ed., What Matters in Probation?. Cullompton, Devon,UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 305-326. In this chapter Gill McIvor compares and contrasts “evidence basedâ€? social work with offenders in Scotland with policy and practice in England and Wales....
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Purposes Matter: Examining the ‘Ends’ of Probation
by Robinson, Gwen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) IN, George Mair,ed., What Matters in Probation?. Cullompton, Devon,UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 277-304. In probation literature in recent years there has been considerable discussion around the means and methods of offender supervision. In the view of Gwen Robinson and Fergus...
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What Works: A View From the Chiefs
by Mair, George
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) IN, George Mair,ed., What Matters in Probation?. Cullompton, Devon,UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 255-276. According to George Mair, the What Works initiative has been planned and implemented in the probation service in England and Wales with considerable speed and fervor. So much...
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Community Service as Reintegration: Exploring the Potential
by Gelsthrope, Loraine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) IN, George Mair,ed., What Matters in Probation?. Cullompton, Devon,UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 229-254. Community service for offenders has been practiced in England and Wales for some time now. It has been variously conceived as simply a cheaper and more constructive alternative...
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Community Reintegration: For Whom?
by Spencer, Jon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) IN, George Mair,ed., What Matters in Probation?. Cullompton, Devon,UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 210-228. As Jon Spencer and Jo Deakin point out at the beginning of this chapter, the What Works agenda has become a central element of probation service policy and practice over the...
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Supervision, Motivation and Social Context: What Matters Most When Probationers Desist?
by Farrall, Stephen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) IN, George Mair,ed., What Matters in Probation?. Cullompton, Devon,UK: Willan Publishing. Pp. 187-209. Over the last several decades, research studies into the outcomes of probation supervision have gradually identified various factors that correlate with rates of successful...
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