The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Community Reconciliation: An Analysis of Competing Strategies and Conceptualizations
by van der Merwe, Hugo
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) PhD dissertation, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Fairfax, Virginia. Downloaded 17 May 2004. The central thesis of this dissertation is that reconciliation is a process that is subject to competing agendas, and that this contentiousness...
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Informal Criminal Justice Systems in Northern Ireland
by Knox, Colin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) ESRC Violence Research Project, Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom. Downloaded 17 May 2004. The so-called ‘informal or alternative criminal justice system’ has evolved since 1969 and is a range of punitive measures against individuals ‘who...
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A Resilient Approach to Crime: Community Conferencing in Queensland
by Beri, S Kendra
June 4, 2015
Source: Presented by Craig Jenkins (Community Conferencing Program, Youth Justice). Victims of Crime Association of Queensland, Australia. Downloaded 17 May 2004. As noted by the author of this paper, crime has many disorienting and damaging effects on victims. As a victim-centered approach,...
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Victim–Offender Conferencing: Issues of Power Imbalance for Women Juvenile Participants
by Field, Rachael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper presented at the “Juvenile Justice: From Lessons of the Past to a Road for the Future” conference held on December 1-2, 2003, in Sydney, Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. Downloaded 11 May 2004. Young women offenders are a minority group...
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Reintegration and Restorative Justice: Towards a Theory and Practice of Informal Social Control and Support
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon, eds., After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration. Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 27-56. The chapter first explains a normative theory of restorative justice and then considers how core principles...
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After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration
by Maruna, Shadd
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. The 11 essays of this volume contribute to the premise that reintegration policy can be improved by learning from success and modeling the re-entry process on what is known about crime desistance. Chapters in the first part of...
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Magistrates’ and Prosecutors’ Sentencing Preferences Based on Crime Case Scenarios
by Naudé, Beaty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Acta Criminologica. 16(5):67-72. Criminological Society of South Africa. Downloaded 6 May 2004. As part of an empirical survey about restorative justice, magistrates and prosecutors were asked to indicate the sentences they would recommend/impose for eight crime case scenarios...
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Views of the Judiciary on Certain Elements of Restorative Justice
by Naudé, Beaty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Acta Criminologica. 16(5):50-66. Criminological Society of South Africa. Downloaded 6 May 2004. Members of the Restorative Justice Centre (RJC) and the Institute for Criminological Sciences at the University of South Africa (Unisa) formed a research team in July 2001 to plan and...
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Views of the Judiciary on the Criminal Justice System and Restorative Justice Training
by Naudé, Beaty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Acta Criminologica. 16(5):38-49. Criminological Society of South Africa. Downloaded 6 May 2004. Personnel of the Restorative Justice Centre (RJC) and the Institute for Criminological Sciences of the University of South Africa (Unisa) formed a research team in July 2001 to plan...
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Protocol and Ethical Guidelines on Restorative Mediation
by Naudé, Beaty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Acta Criminologica. 16(5): 23-37. Criminological Society of South Africa. Downloaded 6 May 2004. Restorative mediation is not an alternative form of justice but a valuable addition to the current criminal justice process which can successfully be used for males and females,...
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Restorative Mediation Practices
by Naudé, Beaty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Acta Criminologica. 16(5): 10-22. Criminological Society of South Africa. Downloaded 6 May 2004. The prevailing justice paradigm, which is one of retribution, is based on punishment or the threat of punishment as a means of controlling behaviour. This paradigm is regarded as...
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Restorative justice: a global overview of its functioning and effectiveness
by Naudé, Beaty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Acta Criminologica. 16(5): 1-9. Criminological Society of South Africa. Downloaded 6 May 2004. Throughout most of human history restorative justice was the dominant criminal justice model, as is evident from the ancient Arab, Greek and Roman civilisations, all of which required...
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Restorative Justice Practices of Native American, First Nation and Other Indigenous People of North America: Part One
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Restorative Practices e-Forum. April 27. International Institute of Restorative Practices. Downloaded 5 May 2004. This is part one in a series of articles about restorative justice practices of Native American, First Nation, and other indigenous people of North America. The...
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Family Group Conferences and Social Work: Some Observations about the United Kingdom and New Zealand
by Doolan, Mike
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) London: Family Rights Group. Downloaded 5 May 2004. Social work, writes Mike Doolan, is having difficulty coming to terms with the notion of family led decision-making in child welfare matters. Yet family group conference (FGC) practice, Doolan asserts, embodies many values and...
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Family Team Conferences in Domestic Violence Cases: Guidelines for Practice
by Salcido Carter, Lucy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) 2nd edition. Kelly Mitchell-Clark, ed. San Francisco, CA: Family Violence Prevention Fund. Downloaded 5 May 2004. As noted at the beginning of this document, family team conferencing and other similar family conference models involve family and community members in...
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