Introduction
by Jones, Tricia S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Tricia S. Jones and Randy Compton, eds., Kids Working It Out: Stories and Strategies for Making Peace in Our Schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Pp. xv-xvii. As scholars and practitioners, Tricia Jones and Randy Compton have been dedicated to promoting conflict resolution...
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Foreword
by Gerzon, Mark
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Tricia S. Jones and Randy Compton, eds., Kids Working It Out: Stories and Strategies for Making Peace in Our Schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Pp. xi-xiv. Mark Gerzon begins his foreword to this book by recounting a terrible incidence of school violence in Erfurt, Germany,...
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Kids Working It Out: Strategies and Stories for Making Peace in Our Schools
by Jones, Tricia S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, p360. In recent years, a number of deadly incidents in schools in, for example, the United States and Germany have dramatized issues of conflict and violence in school settings. With all of this in view, Tricia Jones and Randy Compton, editors of this...
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Restorative Justice: The Empowerment Model
by Barton, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Sydney: Hawkins Press, 194p. In this book, Charles Barton combines his own analytical and practical experience in examining and promoting an empowerment model or paradigm of restorative justice. As an academic, his training and work have been in analytic philosophy with a focus...
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Forgiveness and Justice
by Estes, Jerry N
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Crime Victims Report 7 (November/December): 70. Jerry Estes is the District Attorney General for several counties in Tennessee. In this article he reflects on the relationship between forgiveness and justice through the prism of one specific case. The case began with a murder...
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The Burlington Restorative Justice Center Panel Process
by Davis, Sharon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Crime Victims Report 7 (November/December): 65-66, 75-79. Using elements from actual cases, Sharon Davis paints two scenarios of a nonviolent crime, its effects, and response to the crime. In one scenario the victim is largely ignored or even shunted aside in criminal...
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Worth Reading. New Zealand newspaper accounts of restorative justice.
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Crime Victims Report 7 (November/December): 65, 72-73. Russ Immarigeon begins this article noting that some promote restorative justice as a “balanced approachâ€? while others dispute this characterization. Those who dispute the “balanced...
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Responding to Youth Crime: Toward Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships
by Omaji, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Sydney: Hawkins Press, 228p. In this book, Paul Omojo presents a critique of the responses of criminal justice agencies to youth crime and a vision of new ways to respond to youth crime. Omojo’s basic point is that current ways of responding to youth crime are...
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Revisiting Informal Justice: Restorative Justice and Democratic Professionalism
by Olson, Susan M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Law and Society Review. 38(1): 139-176. Restorative justice is a form of informal justice growing rapidly among criminal justice practitioners. It decenters the focus of criminal justice from the offender breaking a law of the state to the harm caused the victim and community....
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Reassessing the Dimensionality of the Moral Emotions
by Harris, Nathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) British Journal of Psychology. 94: 457-473. The dimensionality of the moral emotions was tested to examine whether theoretical distinctions between specific emotions were empirically supported. A total of 720 drink-driving offenders indicated the degree to which they experienced...
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Training Issues in Victim Offender Mediation
by Stutzman Amstutz, Lorraine
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Journal of Correctional Education. 50(2): 68-71. This article reviews some issues associated with developing Offender Victim Reconciliation Programs. Questions and answers concerning training for reconciliation programs are addressed. (author’s...
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Truth, Reconciliation and Justice: The South African Experience in Perspective
by Asmal, Kader
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Modern Law Review. 63(1): 1-24. Reprinted in Restorative Justice. Declan Roche (2003), ed. Pp. 431-454. The International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory, Second Series. Aldershot, Hants, England: Dartmouth/Ashgate. The lecture examines the role and objectives of...
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From Community Sanctions to Restorative Justice- The Belgian Example
by Peters, Tony
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) No. 61. UNAFEI Resource Material Series. Tokyo: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. Pp. 180-211. Downloaded 3 March 2004. This text aims at giving a view on the recent developments in the debate about the penal...
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Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Rethinking Legal Pluralism and Human Rights
by Wilson, Richard A
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper prepared to be presented at TRC : Commissioning the Past. Witz University 11-14 June 1999. Downloaded 3 March 2004. Human rights are a central element in the new governmental project in the ‘New South Africa’, and this article traces some of the specific forms...
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Past Imperfect: Strategies for Dealing With Past Political Violence in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Countries in Transition
by Hamber, Brandon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper prepared to be presented at TRC : Commissioning the Past. Witz University 11-14 June 1999. Downloaded 3 March 2004. There is no prescriptive or single method that should be used for dealing with the past. The interplay between remembering, forgetting and moving on after...
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