Restorative justice young adults: Factoring in maturity and facilitating desistance.
by Marder, Ian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) London: Restorative Justice Council Drawing on primary evidence in the form of interviews with criminal justice practitioners and young adult offenders, as well as the existing literature, the aim of this report is to broaden our understanding of how restorative justice can be...
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Youth sex offending, recidivism, and restorative justice:Comparing court and conference cases.
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology May 23, 2013 0004865812470383 Our aim was to determine the overall rates of general and sexual re-offending of youth (i.e. aged under 18 at the time of offence) charged with sexual offences, ranging from indecent exposure to...
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Waves of healing: Using restorative justice with street group violence.
by Gavrielides, Theo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) London: Independent Academic Research Studies. Despite the impressive literature on restorative justice, the potential of its paradigm with street group violence remains largely unexplored. The financial, political and social implications that recent riots are having on...
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Restoring peace: Using lessons from prison to mend broken relationships.
by Blackard, Kirk
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Houston, Texas: Bridges to Life. Victims of serious crime — abuse, assault, burglary, rape, murder — are engaging in a process of peace and reconciliation with Texas prison inmates who perpetrated similar crimes against others. “Restoring peace” will...
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Speaking Earth: Environmental restoration and restorative justice.
by Besthorn, Fred H.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 233-244. In this chapter, Besthorn constructs a model of environmental restoration as a form of environmental justice. Because we depend on nature, as...
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Restorative justice almost 50 years later: Japanese American redress for exclusion, restriction, and incarceration.
by Takahashi, Rita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 225-232. In this chapter, Rita Takahashi, professor of social work at San Francisco State University, provides an account of the belated decision by the...
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Social work values and restorative justice.
by Saade, Marta Vides
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 215-224. Restorative justice can be conceived of as a form of social justice in as much as every effort is made to help repair the harm that was done to...
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Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Transitional Justice in a Restorative Justice Context.
by Androff, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 205-213. There is much debate about which interventions are most effective at rebuilding societies, and the international community has struggled to...
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Restorative interventions for postwar nations.
by Stauffer, Carl
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 195-204. Transitional justice, which relies on the concepts of restorative justice, involves a range of approaches that nations employ to address past...
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Restorative celebrations for parolee and probationer completion: The importance of ritual for reentry.
by Walker, Lorenn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 185-192. Under the guidance of internationally respected restorative justice expert John Braithwaite from Australia and criminal desistance expert Shadd...
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Huikahi Restorative Circles: A public health approach for reentry planning.
by Walker, Lorenn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 173-183. Hawai’i has been experimenting with a restorative reentry group planning model where incarcerated people apply to meet in a facilitated...
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Restorative justice skills building for incarcerated people.
by Walker, Lorenn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 163-171. Restorative justice uses behavioral, cognitive, and emotional skills that help people communicate about and cope with difficulties easier....
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Brazil’s restorative prisons.
by Walker, Lorenn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 151-161. Brazil imprisons thousands, but a small percentage for fortunate people are imprisoned in APAC (Association for the Protection of the...
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“Hate left me that day”: Victim offender dialogue in Vermont.
by Holloway, Amy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 145-149. Restorative justice has a long history in Vermont with a variety of practices having been used. The Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD) is a...
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Clergy child sexual abuse: The restorative justice option.
by Gavrielides, Theo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 131-141. This paper makes three arguments. First, it looked at extant scientific studies and faith-based papers to assess the extent to which clergy...
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