Book Review: Juvenile Justice Systems: An International Comparison of Problems and Solutions.
by Strong, Gregory
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. December 2003 Edition. Strong reviews Juvenile Justice Systems: An International Comparison of Problems and...
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Key Differences: Courts and Community Circles
by Stuart, Barry.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) The Justice Professional. 11: 89-116. We need a broad spectrum of responses to crime. Everyone knows that. Yet we persis in believing that a formal criminal justice response is the process of choise. Whose choice? Is it simply because we have invested too many public resources...
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Legitimation or Judgement? South Africa’s Restorative Approach to Transitional Justice
by Leebaw, Bronwyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Polity. 34(1): 23-51. South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is one of the many national and international institutions that have been created in recent decades to promote “transitional jusice” as a part of a process of democratic change. One of the...
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Co-operating to Safeguard
by Martin, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Child Care in Practice. 8(2):127-132. Revised guidance on child protection will shortly be issued in Northern Ireland by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS). Although reference is made in that document to the needs of both victims and those who...
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Holistic Healing and Accountability: Indigenous Restorative Justice
by Baskin, Cyndy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Child Care In Practice. 8(2): 133-136. Writing from an Aboriginal perspective in Canada, Cyndy Baskin draws certain fundamental contrasts between Western-European and Aboriginal approaches to understanding and dealing with wrongdoing. For example, a Western-European approach, as...
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A “New South Africa”: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Vexed Nation-building Project
by Stacey, Simon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the “TRC: Commissioning the Past” conference, organized by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the History Workshop (at Wits University). University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 11-14 June 1999. Downloaded 10...
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Confessions of Torturers: Reflections from Argentina
by Payne, Leigh A
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the “TRC: Commissioning the Past” conference, organized by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the History Workshop (at Wits University). University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 11-14 June 1999. Downloaded 10...
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The Politics of Memory and Forgetting after Auschwitz and Apartheid
by Duvenage, Pieter
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the “TRC: Commissioning the Past” conference, organized by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the History Workshop (at Wits University). University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 11-14 June 1999. Downloaded 10...
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Memory, the TRC and the Significance of Oral History in Post-Apartheid South Africa
by Field, Sean
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the “TRC: Commissioning the Past” conference, organized by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the History Workshop (at Wits University). University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 11-14 June 1999. Downloaded 10...
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Circle Sentencing in New South Wales: A Review and Evaluation
by Potas, Ivan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Sydney, Australia: Judicial Cmssn of New South Wales. Downloaded 9 March 2004. Part 1 presents the background and concept of circle sentencing. The process involves community members and offenders coming together to discuss the offense, the offender, and the consequences of the...
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Restorative Justice Without Offender Participation: A Pilot Program for Victims
by Walker, Lorenn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Restorative Practices E-Forum. 10 February 2004. Bethlehem, PA: International Institute for Restorative Practices. Downloaded 9 March 2004. The general goal of modern restorative justice is to create a process for reconciliation between defendants who accept responsibility for...
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Can Criminal Punishment Survive Christian Scrutiny?: A Comment on Jeffrie Murphy’s “Christianity and Criminal Punishment”
by Beckman, Sharon L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Punishment and Society. 6(1): 87-98. The central themes of Christianity — love, mercy, forgiveness, and redemption — seem opposed to the harsh, condemnatory, and stigmatizing nature of criminal punishment. Murphy concedes that some forms of punishment, such as...
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Can Restorative Justice be an Alternative to Incarceration?
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Community Corrections Report on Law and Corrections Practice. 10(6): 85-86, to 92. Early restorative justice proposals and some of its practices were devised out of general opposition to the use of imprisonment. Initial victim-offender reconciliation cases in Canada and the...
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Mediating the Victim-Offender Conflict
by Zehr, Howard
June 4, 2015
Source: (1980) Mennonite Central Committee. Victim Offender Reconciliation Program. This document, written by Howard Zehr, consists of a booklet that provides a rationale for and an overview of victim offender reconciliation programs (VORP). The VORP concept originated in Kitchener, Ontario,...
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A Luta Dis-continua? The TRC Final Report and the Nation Building Project
by Cronin, Jeremy
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper from the “TRC: Commissioning the Past” conference, organized by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the History Workshop (at Wits University). University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 11-14 June 1999. Downloaded 5 March...
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