The Practice and Efficacy of Restorative Justice
by Pranis, Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 133-157. Beginning with an exploration of the importance of understanding the power of questions, this paper examines the question, “Does it...
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Emerging Issues: The Faith Communities and the Criminal Justice System
by Hanneman, Evelyn U
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 111-131. Restorative Justice is coming into focus for many faith communities as an important shift in response to crime. This paper examines the history of our...
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Justice that Restores: From Impersonal to Personal Justice
by Van Ness, Daniel W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 93-109. Restorative justice is a movement within criminal justice that draws from a conception of justice as personal rather than impersonal. This article offers a...
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From Destruction to Reconciliation: The Potential of Restorative Justice
by Johnson, Daniel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 83-91. Daniel Johnson discusses how the application of “restorative justiceâ€? in his own life and in the life of the victim of his criminal...
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Drug Policy: A Challenge of Values
by Sterling, Eric E
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 51-81. This paper argues that the war on drugs is based on retributive values that are illogical, burden the criminal justice system, and are ineffective in reducing...
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Families and the Moral Economy of Incarceration
by Braman, Donald
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 27-50. The experiences of families of prisoners barely register in contemporary debates over criminal sanctions. But the accounts of families of prisoners...
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The Social Cost of America’s Race to Incarcerate
by Mauer, Marc
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 7-25. Over the past three decades, the United States has been engaged in an uprecendented expansion of its prison system, with the national inmate population rising...
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Restorative Justice Theory and the Finnish Mediation Practices
by Elonheimo, Henrik
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) A Paper Presented at the Third Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Helsinki, 27-30 August 2003. The theory of restorative justice is noble indeed. Furthermore, the international literature is rife with uplifting anecdotes of successful restorative...
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The Arrival of Restorative Justice in the Courts: A Brief Outline of the New Zealand Experience
by Thorburn, Stan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper Presented at 6th Symposium of Legal Argument in Honour of Fei Li Ming On Restorative Justice 16-17 December 2003. Nanjing, Republic of China. The paper is intended to provide a narrative about the emergence of Restorative Justice into the processes of the Courts in New...
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Restorative Justice.
by Van Ness, Daniel W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper Presented at 6th Symposium of Legal Argument in Honour of Fei Li Ming On Restorative Justice 16-17 December 2003. Nanjing, Republic of China. Van Ness offers an definition and description of restorative justice. He then moves into a discussion of restorative process, the...
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Letter From Poland: Mediation in Polish Penal and Juvenile Law
by Wojcik, Dobrochna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal. 6(2): 61-66. The concept of restorative justice recognizes the need to secure the interests and needs of the victim and offers the offender a chance to participate actively in that process and assume responsibility...
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Rethinking Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration
by Judah, Eleanor Hannon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Introduction, in Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 1-6. In this introduction to a special journal issue entitled, ‘Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration’, the guest editors present...
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Victim Services and Restorative Justice: Addressing a Critic’s Concerns
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime Victims Report 8(1): 5-6, 15. Russ Immarigeon has argued that restorative justice – instead of empowering victims and offenders to address positively the conflict between them – is at risk of becoming simply a vehicle for affirming victims and providing...
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Victim-Offender Dialogue in Violent Cases: The Texas and Ohio Experience. Part One: Restorative Justice Study
by Vos, Betty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Crime Victims Report 7(6): 81-82, 90-94. This first in a two-part series on the use of victim-offender dialog (VOD) in cases of violent crime summarizes the major findings from studies of the Texas and Ohio experiences with VOD in cases of violent crimes. Between 1997 and 2001,...
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Conflict Resolution between Victims and Offenders in Austria and in the Federal Republic of Germany
by Pelikan, Christa
June 4, 2015
Source: (1988) In Frances Heidenson and Martin Farrell, eds., Crime in Europe. London: Routledge. Pp. 151-171. As Christa Pelikan observes, juvenile justice and the juvenile court often serve as a field of experimentation for the criminal justice in general. She speculates that reforms and new...
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