Paradigm Muddle: A Response to the Responses
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 143-146. Reminding readers that an academic symposium is not a restorative process, McCold defends the appropriateness of criticizing the BARJ project and raising concerns about the term ‘restorative community justice’ which he posed...
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An Expansive, Transformative View of Restorative Justice
by Harris, M. Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 117-141. This article addresses two distinct but related concerns. The first section argues for adoption of a wide-ranging conceptualization of restorative justice, one that encompasses concern for community, structural, economic and social...
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Can We Heal Ourselves? Transforming Conflict in the Restorative Justice Movement
by Thomas, Douglas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 107-116. Divisions within the contemporary restorative justice movement in the US often manifest in one state-supported model: balanced and restorative justice (BARJ). Paul McCold, in this symposium frames the problem with BARJ as one of a...
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Justice Here and Now: A Personal Reflection on the Restorative and Community Justice Paradigms
by Presser, Lois
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 101-106. The unique contribution of the restorative justice perspective is its emphasis on present, interpersonal practice. Restorative justice pursues, but does not necessarily achieve, mutually respectful and empowering speech. This emphasis...
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Rethinking Restorative and Community Justice: A Postmodern Inquiry
by Arrigo, Bruce A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 91-100. Restorative justice and community justice have often been conflated in the extant literature and the practice community, particularly when assessing how best to respond to the problems posed by crime and wrongdoing. In contrast, however,...
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Restorative Justice versus Community Justice: Clarifying a Muddle or Generating Confusion?
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 81-89. While Paul McCold’s intent to clarify the compatibility of restorative justice and community justice conceptual frameworks is laudable, his effort provides as much confusion as clarity (McCold, 2004, this issue). This piece...
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The Threat to Restorative Justice Posed by the Merger with Community Justice: A Paradigm Muddle
by Strang, Heather
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 75-79. The debate about restorative justice and community justice that Paul McCold encourages in his article (McCold, 2004, this issue) is an important one in the American context. It is important because it would be unfortunate if the...
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Thoughts About Action and Ideology in Criminal Justice Reform
by Clear, Todd R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 69-73. This paper describes four paradoxes of criminal justice reform: (1) Good intentions do not matter and may, in fact, be a detriment; (2) Major changes come about when disparate coalitions merge to make them possible; (3) The structure of...
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Birds of a Feather: A Response to the McCold Critique of Community Justice
by Karp, David R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 59-67. This essay responds to McCold’s critique of community justice (McCold, 2004, this issue). First, McCold fails to define or portray community justice accurately, especially by failing to acknowledge seminal writings about the...
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Paradigm Muddle or Paradigm Paralysis? The Wide and Narrow Roads to Restorative Justice Reform (or, a Little Confusion May Be a Good Thing)
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 37-57. McCold (2004, this issue) argues that community justice and balanced and restorative justice (BARJ) models confuse people and distort the restorative justice movement. We argue that there are many sources of confusion and explain the...
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Paradigm Muddle: The Threat to Restorative Justice Posed by Its Merger with Community Justice
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 13-35. The restorative justice movement has great potential to reform the way society responds to crime and wrongdoing. One might logically assume that the greatest challenge to the new restorative justice paradigm is the traditional punitive...
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Editor’s Note
by Sullivan, Dennis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Contemporary Justice Review 7(1): 1-12. In this seventh birthday issue of Contemporary Justice Review, the editor reflects on the beginnings of the journal and its development to the present as a forum for ‘mutual criticism’ in the fields of criminal, social and...
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Restorative Justice and the Development of Empathy, Remorse, and Moral Disengagement, in Adolescent Offenders
by Mulford, Carrie Fried
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) A dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Department of Psychology. University of Virginia. This study was designed to examine the development of empathy, remorse, and moral disengagement...
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Victim-Offender Conferencing: Issues of Power Imbalance for Women Juvenile Participants
by Field, Rachael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) E Law — Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 11(1). March. Perth, Western Australia: Murdoch University School of Law. Downloaded 28 May 2004. This article addresses the issue of victim-offender conferencing, particularly focusing on female juvenile offenders. The...
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Targeting for Reentry: Matching Needs and Services to Maximize Public Safety
by Young, Douglas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Reentry Partnership Initiatives (RPI) series. College Park, MD: Bureau of Governmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park. Downloaded 28 May 2004. Clearly, there is a subgroup of the federal and state prison population who appear to have integrated periods of...
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